Rhodes on Android™ Platform

Smartphones have proliferated in recent years creating a need for smartphone apps. Android™ is the most commonly used smartphone platform. Ruby is an open source, dynamic, interpreted programming language. Rhodes is the only framework for mobile devices that supports MVC architecture, and provides an Object Relational Manager. In this chapter we shall, first, introduce using Rhodes on Android, and subsequently develop a Rhodes application to get RSS feed for a magazine on Android. To parse XML Rhodes includes the RhoXML parser and support for the ReXML parser may be added.