With the announcement of Salesforce Platform Mobile Services comes a new set of developer tools called Mobile Packs. Mobile Packs built on popular Javascript libraries like AngularJS, Backbone,js and jQuery Mobile to make developing robust business apps for mobile devices using HTML5 while providing idiomatic access to the Salesforce Platform. Continue reading
Our Mobile SDK features a great bit of technology called SmartStore, which allows for secure offline storage of data. SmartStore’s core goal is fill the void for encrypted data with HTML5 development, but that doesn’t mean native code can’t access the same features. Via HTML5, SmartStore is connected with a Cordova plugin – so when coding in Objective-C we just need to refer to to same libraries directly. Continue reading
Would you like 540% more daily app opens, 30% more social sharing, and 20% more mobile transactions? According to AdWeek, push notifications for your mobile apps can increase engagement and adoption dramatically. This post will show you how to send push notifications to mobile apps using Force.com and Urban Airship. Continue reading
The new version of the Mobile SDK is out, and now it is even easier to quickly create native and hybrid applications with Force.com. In this blog, I outline these additions around data security and offline data synchronization. Continue reading
PaaS platforms such as Force.com and Database.com offer a compelling value proposition to enterprise mobile applications that build their back-end/server-side logic in the Cloud. In this blog, we explore the architecture and advantages of building a mobile back-end on Force.com or Database.com. Continue reading
I just posted a complete MobileSDK project for XCode that uses SplitView Controllers and the Chatter REST API. The code is on GitHub with the long term plan to make it a broader canonical sample. If you are in London, don’t forget to attend Cloudforce for more iOS goodies. Continue reading
One of the things I’ve illustrated with the iOS project of our Mobile SDK is the ease at which a developer can get up and running with the project template that comes with the SDK. Out of the gate, the SDK demonstrates logging a user in with OAuth and accessing a list of results from a SOQL query to display within a standard table list view. While this is a great boilerplate, especially showing a clear example of using OAuth for login (which if you are still, say, using a SOAP endpoint – you should be looking at OAuth as… Continue reading
Here’s a quick post to show you how to set up a master-detail iPad app that uses the Mobile SDK for iOS. Continue reading
As Sandeep just recently noted, the Mobile SDK has been updated just in time for Cloudstock with great new features like offline support for hybrid applications. Mr. Bhanot goes into great detail on the offline component, but that’s not all that has been included in the 1.1 version of the SDK for mobile developers.
By popular demand, the SDK also now gives the ability for hybrid applications to have more direct control over the authentication flow. Previously, the OAuth process would be initiated whenever the application was first loaded, but now you can update specific variables in bootconfig.js… Continue reading
Spring ’12 announces the general availability of the Mobile SDK for Force.com. Time to check it out. Continue reading
