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Creating Hybrid Apps with the Salesforce Mobile Pack for Backbone.js

By Pat Patterson | Published: May 3, 2013

Since the release of the Salesforce Mobile Packs a few weeks ago, we’ve been building out from our initial set of jQuery Mobile, AngularJS and Backbone.js apps for Visualforce, Node.js and PHP. If you’ve been watching the Backbone Mobile Pack on GitHub, you’ll have noticed the recent addition of a couple of XCode projects in the samples directory: BackboneHybrid and BackboneCapture.

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The BackboneHybrid sample converts the existing Contact browser sample to a hybrid app running on the Salesforce Mobile SDK (which itself is built on Cordova, aka PhoneGap). It’s interesting to look at the changes required to ‘hybridize’ the sample… Continue reading

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Hybrid Apps: Mobile Device Functionality with JavaScript and Cordova

By Josh Birk | Published: April 12, 2013

With a hybrid application, using JavaScript to build your application doesn’t mean you have to forego accessing important aspects of the native device like the camera. Here’s a quick overview of how a hybrid application uses the Cordova project to bridge between web and native. Continue reading

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HTML5, AngularJS, Backbone Mobile Service Packs

By Dave Carroll | Published: April 9, 2013
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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

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January Developer Meetups – Denver & Boston

By April Nassi | Published: January 14, 2013
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Heads up Denver & Boston developers – we want to meet you! We’ve got Developer Meetups in Denver and Boston this month; both covering an Intro to Force.com and an advanced look at building apps with Force.com Canvas and the Salesforce Mobile SDK. Join us in Denver on January 21st, and in Boston on January 28th. Continue reading

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Building the Dreamforce Scavenger Hunt Mobile App – Part 4

By Sandeep Bhanot | Published: December 18, 2012
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The fourth, and final post in a series of blog posts describing how the Dreamforce scavenger hunt mobile application was built using the Salesforce Touch Platform and the Mobile SDK. This post covers how Cloud Hunter implemented check-ins (i.e. geolocation) and QR/Bar code scanning. Continue reading

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Picture and signature capture in the Dreamforce Scavenger Hunt Mobile App

By Sandeep Bhanot | Published: December 12, 2012
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The third in a series of blog posts describing how the Dreamforce scavenger hunt mobile application was built using the Salesforce Touch Platform and the Hybrid Mobile SDK. This post covers how Cloud Hunter implemented taking pictures and capturing a user’s signature from a Visualforce page. Continue reading

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Building the Dreamforce Scavenger Hunt Mobile App – Part 2

By Sandeep Bhanot | Published: December 10, 2012
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The second in a series of blog posts describing how the Dreamforce scavenger hunt mobile application was built using the Salesforce Touch Platform and the Mobile SDK. This post covers how to create a hybrid mobile app using the Mobile SDK and how to use PhoneGap/Cordova in your Visualforce pages. Continue reading

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Building the Dreamforce Scavenger Hunt Mobile App

By Sandeep Bhanot | Published: December 4, 2012
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The first in a series of blog posts describing how the Dreamforce scavenger hunt mobile application (Cloud Hunter) was built using the Salesforce Touch Platform and the Mobile SDK. This post covers the use case, application architecture and the Visualforce/Apex codebase for Cloud Hunter. Continue reading

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Using SmartStore with Native iOS

By Josh Birk | Published: November 1, 2012
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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

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Tom Gersic on the Mobile SDK’s SmartStore

By Josh Birk | Published: June 18, 2012

Snuck into the office of Model Metrics to talk SmartStore with Tom Gersic before his upcoming webinar with Shawna Wolverton on Painless Mobile Applications. Check out the interview and some more details on how SmartStore works to keep your offline data encrypted for your mobile applications. Continue reading

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