Rhomobile has delivered the production release of RhoHub, a product it is calling the first Development-as-a-Service for Mobile. It allows you to create apps for a wide variety of smartphone platforms online, alone or in a group.

RhoHub is supposed to simplify the process of building native mobile applications for iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile and Android phones by offering a cloud-based development and hosting solution for cross platform building native smartphone apps, all without having to download the Rhodes desktop framework or install specific smartphone OS SDKs on their machines.

Rhomobile's Rhodes smartphone app framework enables developers to use existing HTML and Ruby knowledge to build native mobile applications, which take full advantage of smartphone capabilities such as GPS, PIM data, geo-location and camera. Using Rhomobile's RhoSync, users of Rhodes-based applications can work with their synchronized local data even when they are offline and disconnected.

By allowing developers to code native smartphone applications in HTML on a hosted service instead of in difficult device programming languages on a desktop, Rhodes -- according to Rhomobile -- is supposed to reduce development costs by up to five times, even for a single device operating system.

RhoHub allows developers to collaborate on building native smartphone apps from any location. It generates client and server application code as HTML templates for the Rhodes client and source adapters for the RhoSync server, simplifying the development process.

See here to learn more about RhoHub.