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Chapter 47. Other Alternative Environments

The alternative application environments described in the preceding chapters represent but a few of the growing flood of such technologies. Here, we will take a brief look at a few other alternative application environments.

Note

This area is changing rapidly, so by the time you read this chapter, the material may be somewhat out of date relative to the progress each of these technologies has made. Check the web site of each of the application environments for the latest updates.

Rhodes

Rhodes (http://rhomobile.com/) is similar to PhoneGap insofar as you develop an Android application whose user interface is defined via HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. The difference is that Rhodes bakes in a full Ruby environment, ...