Mobile app developer platform adds new capabilities

With mobile devices becoming increasingly popular there's ever increasing demand for apps, but that can prove a bottleneck for businesses.

With the launch of a new version of its RhoMobile developer platform, Illinois-based Zebra Technologies Corporation is aiming to make multi-platform development easier.

RhoMobile 5.1 focuses on supporting more industrial and consumer-facing mobile devices, along with an expanded set of common APIs. New live update and app simulator capabilities enable developers to immediately push code changes out to devices to enable more efficient testing. New common API updates are added for inputting and controlling cameras, barcodes, event timers, and USB printing functionalities.

"With RhoMobile 5.1, we're excited to deliver an improved developer experience that simply makes feature-rich enterprise, consumer mobile apps easier to develop," says Mark Kirstein, senior director, Enterprise Software at Zebra Technologies. "With this launch, we've added support for new devices critical to use in industrial and retail scenarios. The addition of new common APIs means that developers looking to leverage functionality on a specific mobile platform no longer need to consider which API is used for which, because we've added a single, all-capable option. With live updates, developers who previously may have waited 15 minutes each time code was updated to a device for testing can now push those changes automatically and see the impact of those code changes immediately. We're glad to provide these new capabilities, and eager to see developers put them to work to create game-changing apps".

You can find out more and sign up for a free trial of the suite on the RhoMobile website.

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