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.

Integrating MobileFirst Foundation 8.0 in Ionic v3 based apps

 Vittal R Pai |  June 21, 2018

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.

Distributing & Updating CoreML models at scale with IBM Mobile Foundation

 Srihari Kulkarni |  June 02, 2018

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.

Migrate your client Apps on Android to FCM

 Soumya Y Shanthimohan |  April 20, 2018

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...

Availability of the Mobile Foundation SDK for Xamarin on NuGet

 Srihari Kulkarni |  April 10, 2018

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...

MobileFirst Platform Cordova plugin compatibility with third-party Cordova plugins

 Srutha Keerthi K |  April 09, 2018

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...

Security and data sanitization in MobileFirst Server for loguploader endpoint

 Krishna K Chandrasekar |  April 06, 2018

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...

Automated synchronization of JSONStore collections with CouchDB databases

 Srutha Keerthi K |  February 23, 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.

How to install and configure Mobile Foundation on IBM Cloud Private

 Paul Arockiam |  January 31, 2018

Mobile Foundation is now available for IBM Cloud Private (ICP) deployment. The Passport Advantage Archive (PPA Archive) of Mobile Foundation for IBM Cloud Private (ICP) contains the Docker images and Helm Charts of the Mobile Foundation Server, Mobile Analytics Server and the Application Center.

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

 Anil Daswani |  January 31, 2018

We are excited to announce that IBM Mobile Foundation v8.0 is now available for deployment on IBM Cloud Private. This empowers clients to leverage Mobile Foundation enterprise capabilities to build next-generation cognitive and engaging apps, and rapidly innovate by standardizing on a modern and scalable Cloud platform. Read more about...

IBM Mobile Foundation Product Advisory - Possible impact on extended app authenticity due to Android changes

 Neeti Sukhtankar |  January 22, 2018

In Dec 2017, Google announced that starting 2018 they will start adding a small amount of security metadata on top of each APK to verify that it was officially distributed by Google Play. This metadata is intended to provide a badge of authenticity for apps distributed via the Google Play...

MobileFirst Platform Foundation documentation updates for lower versions

 Sreelatha Sankaranarayanan |  January 17, 2018

Documentation updates for the lower versions of MobileFirst Platform Foundation are compiled in this post. The updates here augment and in some cases replace or correct the information for the respective version documentation in the knowledge center.

Custom property setting needed for MobileFirst Foundation with WebSphere Application Server (WAS) ND version 8.5.5.12 and upwards

 Vasanth Raghavan |  January 12, 2018

This post describes an error seen with MobileFirst Foundation installation on WAS ND 8.5.5.12 and upward versions and the workaround to solve this issue.