Mobile Foundation Blog

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....more

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 the authorization that is granted to the client. A MobileFirst access token is a digitally signed entity that describes the authorization permissions of a client. After the client’s authorization request for a specific scope is granted, and the client is authenticated, the authorization server’s token endpoint sends the client an......more

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:...more

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

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...more

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....more

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....more

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 tests....more

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....more

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 workloads on-premise. These deployment approaches were different though.However, many organizations are increasingly adopting a Hybrid cloud strategy to optimize the benefits of the different cloud environments for different workloads. Clients want the ability to easily move workloads between Public and Private cloud. For example, many clients want to develop and......more

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 Foundation on ICP, the tasks such as deploying Mobile Foundation (MF) on ICP, building and deploying apps and adapters to MF on ICP, testing apps and adapters, and deleting and updating the Mobile Foundation deployments on ICP needs to be automated....more

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

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

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 target their apps to API 26 (Android Oreo) or higher before publishing any updates starting November 1, 2018....more

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

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 servers will be located in several data centers to more efficiently serve the requests from the mobile application....more

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

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....more

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

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

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 users, such as built-in support for notches, display cutout support, animation, HDR VP9 video, multi-camera support, notifications, indoor positioning with Wi-Fi RTT and many more....more

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 8.1 to Windows 10....more

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....more

Ionic SDK is a framework built on AngularJS and Apache Cordova that helps you rapidly build hybrid mobile apps using web technologies such as HTML, CSS, and Javascript....more

If you are a follower of what is happening in the Machine learning world, you already know Watson and Core ML. Watson is IBM’s AI platform on the Cloud and CoreML is the framework provided by Apple for running trained machine learning models on iOS devices....more

Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) has been deprecated and is integrated with Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM). Google will turn off most GCM services by April 2019.The Push Notifications on IBM Mobile Foundation has been updated to use the FCM endpoints. For now, the existing applications using GCM services will continue to work.However, the Push Notifications service will pull out support for GCM projects soon.If you are using a GCM project, then migrate the GCM client apps on Android to FCM at the earliest.Note that there will be no change in the SDK and the client app would behave as expected. After......more

The Xamarin Component Store has been the home of several libraries and components published for Xamarin projects. The MobileFirst SDK for Xamarin has been made available through the Xamarin Component Store ever since it was launched in 2014. If you are a MobileFirst on-premise v7.1 or v8.0 customer or Mobile Foundation Service customer, then read further to learn about the Xamarin SDK for Mobile Foundation availability on NuGet....more

Often the MobileFirst Platform (MFP) Cordova plugin (cordova-plugin-mfp) is used in combination with other native Cordova plugins (like cordova-plugin-camera, cordova-plugin-splashscreen etc.) or with other third-party Cordova plugins. The MFP Cordova plugin works seamlessly with native Cordova plugins as the MFP plugin is built to ensure that there are no compatibility issues....more

Endpoint /mfp/api/loguploader accepts unauthenticated requests and payload. The endpoint accepts the entire request at once. However, the payload is processed at multiple levels to ensure that it meets the data format and sanity checks required by the analytics server. Failing the sanity checks results in the request not being sent to the analytics service....more