Mobile Foundation Blog

The Apache community released cordova-android@11.0.0, which has support for Android 32 API Level (Android Version 12). As stated in the blog, this release drops Nodejs 10 support. The minimum supported version which Cordova requires is 12.x. Mobile Foundation (MF) Cordova plug-in for Android component is implemented to support new plug-in changes....more

Apple recently introduced the latest version of its iOS operating system, iOS 16 which is available for users from September 12 2022. iOS 16 brings the biggest update ever to the Lock Screen, the ability to edit and collaborate in Messages, new tools in Mail, and more ways to interact with photos and videos with Live Text and Visual Look Up....more

Similar to the earlier releases, Android 13 includes behavior changes, new features and APIs that may affect your app. Android has always been about personalization, allowing you to select the device, service and experience that is right for you. Android 13 focuses on developing an operating system that is secure by default and private by design, making all your devices work better together....more

The interim fix 8.0.0.0-MFPF-IF202010151343 introduced a breaking change to support compatibility with older versions of the Mobile Foundation server. If your app uses any of the following SDKs - Android, iOS or Cordova version 8.0.2020101412 or higher, it is necessary to upgrade your server version to 8.0.2020101311 or a higher version....more

A vulnerability has been reported in the Apache Log4j open source library in the CVE-2021-44228....more

The ongoing pandemic has affected all our lives in more ways than one in 2020 and still continues to be in year 2021. However, all of this did not stop both Google and Apple from releasing pre-release versions of their new mobile operating systems to developers this year. In this post, we will assess the new changes and features in both iOS 15 and Android 12 and the compatibility of Mobile Foundation SDKs with Android 12 and iOS 15....more

Apache Community released cordova-android@10.0.0 which has support for Android 30 API Level (Android Version 11). As stated in the blog it has breaking changes especially AndroidX only support and WebViewAssetLoader support. Mobile Foundation (MF) Cordova plugin for Android component implemented to support new plugin changes....more

Mobile Foundation (MF) Android SDK uses OkHttp third party library to establish the communication between MF client and server. Starting API level 28 (Android 9), Android started restricting the non-SDK interfaces used in the app. In the newer releases of Android OS, few of the methods from Okhttp v3.4.1 bundled in MF Android SDK have been black listed and below warnings are seen on Google Play Store console....more

APNS has announced that they will no longer support legacy binary protocol from March 31st, 2021. Users have been asked to switch to the new HTTP/2 protocol to avoid disruptions to Push notifications capability....more

Angular is a TypeScript based open source front-end web application platform that helps you rapidly build a web application. The latest stable version of Angular is 10. More details about the new features of Angular 10 can be found in this blog post....more

Sometimes, in iOS devices, if the notification opens when the application is not running or is in the background, then the application cannot read the notification payload, which results in an alert view not getting displayed....more

APNS has announced that they will no longer support legacy binary protocol from March 31, 2021. Users have been asked to switch to the new HTTP/2 protocol to avoid disruptions to Push notifications capability....more

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You can install IBM Mobile Foundation and run it on Red Hat Openshift 3.11 or later. Red Hat OpenShift is an enterprise Kubernetes platform that is designed to address the complex realities of container orchestration in production systems. IBM Mobile Foundation Services are deployed as pods in OpenShift Container Platform Cluster. There may be scenarios of pod crashes during or after the deployment. In such cases, it is not possible to retrieve the logs from the crashed pod. It is always important to persist the logs for further analysis to identify the root cause of the failure....more

IBM Mobile Foundation v8.0 can now be deployed on Red Hat OpenShift and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) that runs on Azure Cloud Platform....more

What is Remote Access Management?It is a capability of Mobile First Platform to control Access to the Mobile App. As an administrator, you can modify whether a particular version of an app is allowed for access or not, right from the Operations Console....more

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