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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

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

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....more

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 Cloud Private here....more

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 Store. You can read more about the announcement in the Android Developers Blog here....more

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....more

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....more