Developing Hybrid apps

• Setting up the MobileFirst development environment
• Setting up the iOS development environment
• Setting up the Android development environment
• Setting up the BlackBerry 10 development environment
• Setting up the Windows Phone 8 development environment
• Setting up the Windows 8 development environment

• Your first hybrid application
• Previewing your hybrid application
• Introduction to MobileFirst Console
• Connecting to MobileFirst Server
• Using CLI to create, build, and manage MobileFirst project artifacts
• Integrating MobileFirst Platform Foundation SDK in Cordova Applications

Required reading

• Adapters overview
• Adapters overview
• Invoking adapter procedures from Hybrid applications

Further reading

• JavaScript adapters
  • JavaScript HTTP Adapter
  • JavaScript SQL Adapter
  • JavaScript Cast Iron Adapter
  • JavaScript JMS Adapter
  • Using Java in JavaScript adapters
• Java Adapter
  • Java HTTP adapter
  • Java SQL adapter
• Debugging adapters
• Integrating with Cloudant using an adapter

Development basics, Debugging, Optimizations, General information

• Hybrid applications client-side API basics
• Debugging applications
• Optimizing your application for various environments
• General information when developing for iOS
• General information when developing for Android
• General information when developing for BlackBerry 10
• General information when developing for Windows Phone 8
• General information when developing for Windows Universal
• General information when developing Mobile Web applications
• General information when developing desktop applications

Skins, Common UI Controls, Multi-page applications, Working with UI frameworks

• Overview of client technologies
• Common UI controls
• Supporting multiple form-factors using skins
• Working with UI frameworks
• Building a multi-page application

Direct Update, Translation

• Enabling translation
• Using Direct Update to quickly update your application

Using Native Pages

• Apache Cordova overview
• iOS – Using native pages in hybrid applications
• Android – Using native pages in hybrid applications
• Windows Phone 8 – Using native pages in hybrid applications

Adding Native Functionality Using Apache Cordova Plug-ins

• iOS – Adding native functionality to hybrid application with Apache Cordova plugin
• Android – Adding native functionality to hybrid application with Apache Cordova plugin
• Windows Phone 8 – Adding native functionality to hybrid application with Apache Cordova plugin

Adding Native UI Elements

• iOS – Adding native UI elements to hybrid applications
• Android – Adding native UI elements to hybrid applications
• Windows Phone 8 – Adding native UI elements to hybrid applications

orking with Remote Content

• Integrating server-generated pages in hybrid applications
• Using MobileFirst application as a container for server-generated pages
• Container for advanced pages
• Accelerating application development by reusing resources

Shell Application, Location Services, Mobile Test Workbench

• Shell development concepts
• Location services in hybrid applications
• Testing MobileFirst applications with IBM MobileFirst Platform Test Workbench

• JSONStore
• Working Offline
• Remote-controlled Client-side log collection

Authentication concepts

Form-based authentication

• Form-based authentication - server configuration
• Form-based authentication - client implementation

Adapter-based authentication

• Adapter-based authentication - server configuration
• Adapter-based authentication - client implementation
• Two-Step authentication

Custom authentication

• Custom authentication - server configuration
• Custom authentication - client implementation

Application Authenticity Protection

• Application Authenticity Protection

Authenticating external resources

• Using the MobileFirst Server to authenticate external resources

Device Provisioning

• Device provisioning concepts
• Custom device provisioning

LDAP, LTPA and X.509 Certificate

• Using LDAP Login Module to authenticate users with LDAP server in hybrid applications
• WebSphere LTPA-based authentication
• Client X.509 Certificate Authentication and User Enrollment
• NTLM Authentication

Advanced topics

• Device Enrollment
• Offline Authentication
• Remember Me

Push Notifications

• Push Notifications Overview
• Push notifications in hybrid applications
• SMS notifications
• 2-Way SMS notifications

Location Services and Beacons

• Location services in native Android
• Working with Beacons

• Moving from development environment to stand-alone QA and production servers
• Distributing mobile applications with Application Center

• Operational Analytics
• Reports and analytics