[ANN] Ruboto 0.7.0 released!

The Ruboto team is proud to announce the release of Ruboto M.m.p.

Ruboto is a framework for writing full Android apps in Ruby. It includes
support libraries and generators for creating projects, classes, tests,
and more.

New in version 0.7.0:

Features:

  • Issue #147 Class oriented definition of activities, services,
    broadcast receivers and callback objects
  • Issue #194 Update AndroidManifest.xml when project.properties files is
    changed
  • Issue #197 Support signing APKs with Java 7
  • Issue #198 Support for running Ruboto tests on Android 4.1 api level
    16

Bugfixes:

  • Issue #144 Printing stack traces fails
  • Issue #173 Default icon name has changed for Android 4

Internal:

  • Issue #103 Redefine Script.java public interface
  • Issue #200 Split Script responsibilities into JRubyAdapter and Script.
  • Issue #202 Tightened the public API of JRubyAdapter and Script

Support:

  • Issue #151 Stop releasing the ruboto-core compatibility gem
  • Issue #180 Stop support for upgrading from Ruboto 0.1.0 and older
  • Issue #181 Stop support for developing Ruboto with Android SDK 13 and
    older
  • Issue #184 Drop support for JRuby 1.5.6 and JRuby 1.6.2

Documentation:

  • Issue #179 Ensure SpyCam example picture is rotated correctly when the
    device is rotated (portrait/landscape)

You can find a complete list of issues here:

Installation:

To use Ruboto, you need to install a Java JDK, the Android SDK, Apache
ANT, and a Ruby implementation. Then do (possibly as root)

gem install ruboto

To create a project do

ruboto gen app --package <your.package.name>

You can find an introductory tutorial at

If you have any problems or questions, come see us at http://ruboto.org/

Enjoy!


Uwe K.
http://ruboto.org/