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Rapid Android development with JRuby

Andrew Glover, CTO, App47

Andrew Glover is a developer, author, speaker, and entrepreneur with a passion for behavior-driven development, Continuous Integration, and Agile software development. He is the founder of the easyb Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) framework and is the co-author of three books: Continuous Integration, Groovy in Action, and Java Testing Patterns. You can keep up with him at his blog and by following him on Twitter.

Summary: Learn how to use Ruboto, a framework that leverages the power of JRuby, to quickly build and deploy Android applications.

Date: 06 Sep 2011
Level: Introductory

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Follow along as Andrew Glover demonstrates using the Ruboto framework to rapidly build and deploy Android applications. See how to create an emulator instance, create a Ruboto project using the command line, code your app, and use a location listener for obtaining GPS information.

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