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

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...

Compatibility issues with MobileFirst Plugin for Cordova and Ionic Webview 2.x

 Vittal Pai |  October 16, 2018

Ionic Developers - take note! If you now create a new Ionic project and add the MobileFirst Plugin to your Ionic app, you will see that the app launches and after getting past the splash screen displays a blank white screen as seen in the screenshot below. If you’re affected...

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

IBM MobileFirst and iOS12

 Sandhya Suman |  September 17, 2018

iOS12 is here and IBM MobileFirst is pleased to announce that we have embraced the iOS12 upgrade gracefully like every year.

Update your MobileFirst Android apps to API Level 26

 Srihari Kulkarni |  September 13, 2018

If you have been following the mobile developers’ chatter on the internet, you are probably already aware that new apps submitted to the Google Play Store requires apps to target API level 26 (Android Oreo) or higher, since August 1, 2018. Existing apps on the Play Store will have to...

IBM MobileFirst and Android Pie

 Manjunath Kallannavar |  August 06, 2018

Android Pie is here and IBM MobileFirst is ready for it.

Db2 Q-replication for MobileFirst 8.0 in an Active-Active Configuration

 Kavitha Varadarajan |  August 05, 2018

Deploying a mobile application is more than just building a mobile application and deploying it to the public app store. A mobile application talks to a back-end system. If the application can be used in many places around the world by a large community, it is likely that the backend...

Automated synchronization of JSONStore collections with CouchDB databases in iOS and Cordova

 Srutha Keerthi K |  July 24, 2018

MobileFirst JSONStore already allows you to write code to be able to pull and push data from/to an external data source, see here.

Power your React Native apps with IBM Mobile Foundation

 Srihari Kulkarni |  July 24, 2018

Dear React Native developers, a warm welcome to you to IBM Mobile Foundation. Today, we are pleased to announce the availability of the IBM Mobile Foundation SDK for React Native apps.

Mobile Foundation 8.0.0.0-MFPF-IF201807180449-CDUpdate-02 released

 Krishnakumar Balachandar |  July 24, 2018

We are pleased to announce the continuous delivery (CD) update 2 for Mobile Foundation v8.0.

IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation Support for iOS 12

 Sandhya Suman |  July 23, 2018

Update: Please refer our latest blog for the latest news on iOS12 compatibility with MobileFirst .

MobileFirst Platform Foundation compatibility for Android P Beta Version

 Shubha S |  July 05, 2018

Google announced the next version of Android, which is Android P in March 2018. The developer preview of Android P was launched in March 2018 and has been available for a while now for testing, development, and feedback. Android P introduces a variety of new features and capabilities for end...

End of Support for Windows Phone 8.1 in Mobile Foundation

 Krishnakumar Balachandar |  June 27, 2018

Microsoft announced the End of Support for Windows Phone 8.1 on July 11th, 2017. Customers need to upgrade to Windows 10 and build apps for UWP (Universal Windows Platform), which provides the common app platform for any device that runs Windows 10. Microsoft provides documentation for porting apps from Windows...

Integrating MobileFirst Foundation 8.0 in Angular 6 web apps

 Vittal R Pai |  June 27, 2018

Angular is a TypeScript based open source front-end web application platform that helps you rapidly build a web application. The latest release of Angular is 6. More details about the new features of Angular 6 can be found in this blog post.