Mobile Foundation Blog

Deploying Mobile Foundation (MF) using Helm on IBM Cloud Kubernetes cluster provides many advantages compared to using scripts. The following are the major benefits of choosing Helm based deployment over BYOL Scripts: Easy and quick Install/Upgrade/Rollbacks. Mobile Foundation docker images are Red Hat UBI based and are made available in IBM Entitled registry. Images are scanned by IBM VA and Red Hat scanner and vulnerabilities are addressed. Enabled with enterprise grade Kubernetes features like Pod security policies, configuration management, network policies, and so on. Custom configuration updates to MF components made easy, for example, enabling trace logs, updating additional JNDI......more

In Apple’s WWDC 2020, Apple introduced a new feature called App Clips for iOS 14 which allows to access the app without actually installing the app on the device just like instant apps for Android....more

We are pleased to announce IBM Mobile Foundation v8.0 providing Day 0 suport for Apple’s latest iOS operation system version iOS 14. You can update your phones to iOS 14 using the Over-the-air updates provided by Apple. Going alongside iOS 14, for developers, is XCode 12. As a developer, you can download XCode 12 from here....more

We all know that Google I/O did not happen due to the ongoing pandemic, however, Google made sure developer previews and beta releases of Android 11 were made available to developers according to the schedule and finally the GA of Android 11 is here!....more

We are pleased to announce the continuous delivery (CD) update 7 for Mobile Foundation v8.0. This update includes the addition of several new features across various components of Mobile Foundation....more

A rich push notification is a push notification with a rich media attachment. Mobile Foundation v8.0 supports different rich push notifications for both Android & iOS platform. In this post, we describe how to use the supported Rich Notiifications....more

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Developing a microservice from scratch is generally a cumbersome process. Components or stacks help microservice developers to jump-start their apps without much effort. Currently, there are two popular CLI tools that enable this - Appsody and OpenShift Do (odo)....more

We are happy to announce the general availability of IBM Mobile Foundation as software on IBM Cloud....more

We are happy to announce new features and updates to Mobile Foundation, which is available as part of Cloud Pak for Applications V4.2....more

We have a great news to share with our MobileFirst Platform Foundation v7.1 customers. Today, we are happy to announce the release of Mobile Foundation Migration Studio. Migration Studio tremendously eases the MobileFirst Platform Foundation v7.1 hybrid applications to Mobile Foundation v8.0 migration effort. Migration Studio is an all too familiar Eclipse plugin very similar to the MobileFirst Platform Foundation v7.1 Studio plugin....more

We are happy to announce that IBM Mobile Foundation v8.0 officially supports the latest Ionic 5. Ionic 5 was released in February this year. Most of the changes have been made in the Ionic core. There have been multiple UI changes, especially in iOS.There is a new API for creating custom animations, support for a lot of new designs in Ionicons, new Ionic colors have been introduced, new starter designs, improvements to component customization and more.The official Ionic 5 announcement can be found here....more

During the last several months, Apple has made a few announcements that can affect your app. This post lists the announcements that are most relevant and also the actions you must take to keep your Mobile Foundation app current....more

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This blog will provide you quick and handy information on installing Mobile Foundation (MF) server components using ANT Tasks....more

UIWebView is by Apple since June 2018. However, this recent announcement by Apple brings an end to the use of UIWebView in all iOS apps....more

Installation and configuration of Mobile Foundation (MF) server comprise of steps that can be carried out easily, as explained in our product documentation. This blog attempts to explain the MF installation and configuration in simple terms....more

This blog gives you quick and handy information on the FAQs related to Silent Installation of Mobile Foundation (MF) Server....more

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We are pleased to announce the continuous delivery (CD) update 6 for Mobile Foundation v8.0. This update includes the addition of several new features across various components of Mobile Foundation....more

iOS 13 is here and IBM Mobile Foundation is pleased to announce that we have embraced the iOS 13 upgrade gracefully like every year....more

We are happy to announce the availability of IBM Mobile Foundation for Red Hat® OpenShift Container Platform. Customers can now build multi-channel applications using Mobile Foundation and leverage the capabilities on OpenShift to deliver rich, secure and scalable applications using cloud-native technologies....more

Update: Please refer our latest blog for the latest news on iOS13 compatibility with MobileFirst ....more

Android 10 is here and IBM Mobile Foundation is ready for it....more

Most organizations mandate mobile apps to undergo code scanning and pen tests before they can be uploaded to public app stores. This post is aimed to be a primer for app developers in resolving some of the commonly reported findings of such scan results....more

We are happy to announce the availability of IBM Mobile Foundation 8.0 as a certified Cloud Pak....more

Google I/O 2018 announced a new publishing format for Android Developers - Android App Bundle....more

Google I/O 2019 brought in a flurry of new feature announcements. One of the less publicised feature was that of in-app updates for Android apps. While the Google Play Store continues to be the channel for delivering app updates, in-app updates allow developers to prompt users to consume an app update from the Play Store without leaving their app....more

IBM Support Portal is the single destination for all your support requirements related to IBM products.The all-new experience offered by the support portal makes it easier to lookup for APARs, PMRs, support notes, products, migration documents, and so on. You can also choose to be subscribed to receive notifications for select topics of interest for the IBM product of your choice....more

Update 31 Jul 2019: A new set of JSONStore SDKs have been published ( Android Native ibmmobilefirstplatformfoundationjsonstore v8.0.2019072505, Cordova cordova-plugin-mfp-jsonstore v8.0.2019072908 for Mobile Foundation v8 and iFix 7.1.0.0-MFPF-IF201907301558 for Mobile Foundation v7.1) for 64-bit compatibility. These are enhanced from the previous release and do not require the intermediate build in 32-bit mode to ensure data retention. Use these versions of the SDK to ensure JSONStore data retention across app upgrades irrespective of the mode and the iFix level of the SDK in the previously built app....more

Google has announced the next version of Android, which is Android Q. The developer preview of Android Q was launched in March 2019 and has been available for a while now for testing, development, and feedback. Android Q introduces a variety of new features and capabilities for end users, which gives security enhancements (such as improved biometric authentication dialogs, improved fallback support for device credentials), TLS 1.3 support, connectivity, system-wide dark mode, permissions usage, built-in screen record features and many more....more

IBM Mobile Foundation v8 is now supported on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.1 for Power, Big Endian ....more

We are happy to announce that IBM Digital App Builder 8.0.0 which was launched as a beta release in Dec 2018, is now generally available. This tool can be used to rapidly build multi-channel apps with AI capabilities that can be deployed on Mobile Foundation runtime. Customers can now download the binaries by logging into passport advantage (CC151EN for Mac and CC152EN for Windows 10). For others who want to try out this tool, download the binaries from our git repo....more

We are pleased to announce the official support of Ionic 4 in IBM Mobile Foundation v8.0. This support is introduced from iFix 8.0.0.0-MFPF-IF201903250706 onwards....more

We are pleased to announce the continuous delivery (CD) update 5 for Mobile Foundation v8.0....more

We are pleased to announce the official support of Oracle, MySQL & PostGreSQL databases for IBM Mobile Foundation v8.0 on IBM Cloud Private (ICP). The support for deploying IBM Mobile Foundation artifacts on ICP 3.1 is from iFix IF201902040810 onwards. Steps to achieve the Oracle, MySQL and PostGreSQL can be found here...more

CoreML is a framework by Apple which helps to integrate machine learning models into your IOS apps. The model can execute on the device and is optimized for performance, minimizes memory footprint and reduces power consumption. Adding ML to mobile apps opens up new capabilities for client side mobile applications....more