IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation Support for iOS 13

 Sandhya Suman, |  July 08, 2019

If you are an on-premise 8.0 customer or Mobile Foundation Service customer, then read further to learn about Mobile Foundation support for iOS 13.

Addressing Security Scan Findings In Mobile Foundation Apps

 Manjunath Kallannavar |  July 04, 2019

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.

Mobile Foundation 8.0 is now available as a certified Cloud Pak

 Krishnakumar Bala |  June 28, 2019

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

MobileFirst with Google App Bundle and Dynamic Delivery In Native Android Apps

 Yash Soni |  June 13, 2019

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

Should I use App Update or Direct Update?

 Srihari Kulkarni |  June 10, 2019

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...

Leverage IBM Support Portal to stay on top of support updates for Mobile Foundation

 Sreelatha Sankaranarayanan |  May 30, 2019

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...

64-bit Google Play Store Compliance for MobileFirst

 Manjunath Kallanavar |  May 24, 2019

Note: 64-bit support is provided for apps developed using MobileFirst Platform Foundation v7.1 and Mobile Foundation v8.0. If you are using MobileFirst Platform Foundation v7.0 or lower, please upgrade to the latest version of Mobile Foundation.

Mobile Foundation compatibility for Android Q Beta version

 Vidyasagar Gaikwad |  May 15, 2019

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...

Installing and Configuring IBM Mobile Foundation server on RHEL for Power System, Big Endian

 Soumya Y Shanthimohan |  April 08, 2019

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

IBM Digital App Builder 8.0.0 is now generally available

 Krishnakumar Bala |  April 05, 2019

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...

Support for Ionic 4 in Mobile Foundation v8.0

 Vittal Pai |  March 28, 2019

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.

Mobile Foundation 8.0.0.0-MFPF-IF201903190949-CDUpdate-05 released

 Krishnakumar Balachandar |  March 22, 2019

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

Database support for Mobile Foundation v8.0 on IBM Cloud Private v3.1

 Krishna K Chandrasekar |  February 08, 2019

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...

Distribute CoreML models securely using Mobile Foundation server

 Krishnakumar Bala |  February 08, 2019

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....

Setting up a High Available (HA) Mobile Foundation environment on IBM Cloud Private (ICP)

 Yathendra Prasad |  January 30, 2019

This post focuses on High Availability (HA) of Mobile Foundation on IBM Cloud Private, particularly about having Highly Available Master Nodes in the ICP topology. We will discuss about the HA setup with 3 Masters and 2 Worker Nodes topology. One of the three master nodes acts like a boot...

Mobile Foundation for Developers v8.0 is now available on IBM Cloud Private

 Anil Daswani |  January 29, 2019

We are excited to announce that IBM Mobile Foundation for Developers v8.0 is now available for IBM Cloud Private. Developers can now try out Mobile Foundation enterprise capabilities to build next-generation cognitive and engaging apps and rapidly innovate by standardizing on a modern and scalable cloud platform. The Developer package...

IBM MobileFirst Foundation is now supported on RHEL Power System – Big Endian

 Soumya Y Shanthimohan |  January 28, 2019

IBM is pleased to announce that MobileFirst Foundation v8.0 is tested and certified on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.1 Power System, Big Endian.

Integrating Siri Shortcuts in Mobile Foundation iOS Apps

 Vittal R Pai |  January 15, 2019

In Apple’s WWDC 2018, Apple introduced a new feature called Siri Shorcut for iOS 12 which allows to define and access the frequently used tasks of an application using Siri.

Support for Mobile Foundation v8.0 on IBM Cloud Private v3.1.1

 Krishna K Chandrasekar |  January 04, 2019

We are pleased to announce the official support of IBM Mobile Foundation v8.0 on IBM Cloud Private (ICP) 3.1.1. The support for deploying IBM Mobile Foundation artifacts on ICP 3.1.1 is from iFix **8.0.0.0-MFPF-** onwards.

Purge and archive Mobile Foundation runtime tables

 Smitha TV |  December 27, 2018

Mobile Foundation runtime supports relational databases such as IBM DB2, Oracle and MySQL.Database is required to store the data required for the running of Mobile Foundation applications. See Internal runtime databases, for more information on the database tables used by Mobile Foundation server.

Mobile Foundation 8.0.0.0-MFPF-IF201812191602-CDUpdate-04 released

 Krishnakumar Balachandar |  December 24, 2018

We are pleased to announce the continuous delivery (CD) update 4 for Mobile Foundation v8.0.

HTTP/2 APNs Push Notifications using Apache HTTP Server as Proxy

 Josephine E. Justin |  December 24, 2018

MobileFirst Platform now supports the HTTP/2 based APNs Push Notifications.

Announcing Beta release of IBM Digital App Builder - The easy way to build smart apps

 Krishnakumar Bala |  December 18, 2018

Deprecation Note: This blog post is deprecated. Digital App Builder is now generally available. For more information, see here.

Performance of JSONStore sync

 Srutha Keerthi |  December 04, 2018

The feature of automated sync in JSONStore is available in native iOS, native Android, Cordova iOS and Cordova Android platforms. Details on enabling this feature can be found here and in this post. This blog post provides details regarding the performance of the JSONStore automated sync feature on Android and...

Re-use pre 8.0 Javascript authentication adapters in MFP 8.0 authentication

 Vivin Krishnan |  November 29, 2018

One of the major changes introduced with IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation v8.0 is the concept of SecurityChecks. A security check is a server-side entity that implements the security logic for protecting server-side application resources. In MFP 8.0, a security check can only be implemented as a Java adapter.

Refresh Token

 Amit Mane |  November 29, 2018

The MobileFirst security framework is based on the OAuth 2.0 protocol. According to this protocol, a resource can be protected by a scope that defines the required permissions for accessing the resource. To access a protected resource, the client must provide a matching access token, which encapsulates the scope of...

Best practices for performance and scalability of Mobile Foundation v8.0

 Vivin Krishnan |  November 29, 2018

Here are some of the best practices, which are good to be considered for achieving performance and scalability of MobileFirst Platform Foundation (MFP) v8.0. Many of these recommendations apply to cloud and on-premise alike:

Mobile Foundation 8.0.0.0-MFPF-IF201811050432-CDUpdate-03 released

 Krishnakumar Balachandar |  November 15, 2018

We are pleased to announce the continuous delivery (CD) update 3 for Mobile Foundation v8.0.

Securing Mobile Foundation deployments on IBM Cloud Private using your own security certificates

 Krishna K Chandrasekar |  November 04, 2018

IBM Mobile Foundation deployments on ICP has https enabled by default with NodePort. To configure using your own security certificates (for both NodePort and ingress) follow the steps below.Case A : During setting up of Mobile Foundation on ICP

Running Mobile Foundation Server on ICP deployed on IBM SoftLayer

 Krishna K Chandrasekar |  November 04, 2018

This blog focuses on setting up of MobileFirst Server running on an IBM Cloud Private (ICP) on SoftLayer VMs or baremetal hosts. The topology that is targeted is an ICP Host with 2 Workers and one master/boot node as represented in the following diagram.

Using LDAP registry on Mobile Foundation deployed on IBM Cloud Private (ICP)

 Krishna K Chandrasekar |  November 04, 2018

When Mobile Foundation (MFP) Server Helm chart is deployed on IBM Cloud Private it uses basicRegistry along with various other configuration details. This user registry is good enough for basic development and testing environments, but for production scenarios LDAP registry is used.

How to customize the Mobile Foundation component deployed on IBM Cloud Private (ICP)

 Krishna K Chandrasekar |  November 04, 2018

During the deployment of the Mobile Foundation Helm charts on the IBM Cloud Private various configuration details are supplied. There are several cases, these configuration settings available on the deployed Mobile Foundation on the ICP needs customizations post deployment especially when the system runs in production scenarios or during the...

Support for Mobile Foundation v8.0 on IBM Cloud Private v3.1

 Krishna K Chandrasekar |  October 26, 2018

We are pleased to announce the official support of IBM Mobile Foundation v8.0 on IBM Cloud Private (ICP) 3.1. The support for deploying IBM Mobile Foundation artifacts on ICP 3.1 is from iFix 8.0.0.0-MFPF-IF201810040631 onwards.

Mobile Foundation v8.0 supports improved portability with consistent deployment between IBM Cloud Private on-premise and IBM Cloud Kubernetes service on Cloud

 Anil Daswani |  October 22, 2018

Last year we announced the ability for clients to deploy their existing Mobile Foundation v8.0 license using scripts on IBM Cloud Kubernetes clusters for workloads on public Cloud. This year we announced the ability to deploy Mobile Foundation v8.0 using Docker image and Helm charts on IBM Cloud Private for...

DevOps for Mobile Foundation on IBM Cloud Private (ICP)

 Shinoj Zacharias |  October 22, 2018

IntroductionDevOps is a practice used by enterprises for faster delivery of software and to improve the time taken for go to market. The DevOps pipeline for Mobile Foundation on IBM Cloud Private helps in automating tasks that are required to set up a continuous delivery of mobile apps. For Mobile...

(Deprecated Post) Compatibility issues with MobileFirst Plugin for Cordova and Ionic Webview 2.x

 Vittal Pai |  October 16, 2018

FCM Support for Android in MobileFirst Platform v7.1

 Anantha Krishnan |  October 09, 2018

Follow the steps in this post to use Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) in your android app with MobileFirst Platform v7.1 Android Push SDK