Mobile Foundation Blog

OverviewIn my previous blog post, I walked you through how to create, build, and deploy Ionic 1 apps implemented with MobileFirst Foundation 8. If you are an on-premise 8.0 customer or Mobile Foundation service customer, then read further to learn how to integrate with Ionic 2 apps which is quite different than the version 1....more

OverviewApplications using the MobileFirst Foundation SDK can be integrated with Bluemix Push Services for the applications to receive notifications.Follow the instructions in this blog post in order to integrate your Android application with the Bluemix Push Notifications service....more

OverviewApplications using the MobileFirst Foundation SDK can be integrated with Bluemix Push Services for the applications to receive notifications.Follow the instructions in this blog post in order to integrate your Android application with the Bluemix Push Notifications service....more

A new iFix has been released for MobileFirst Platform Foundation 7.1.Download iFix (requires login to IBM Fix Central)...more

A new iFix has been released for MobileFirst Platform Foundation 7.0.Download iFix (requires login to IBM Fix Central)...more

A new iFix has been released for MobileFirst Platform Foundation 6.3.Download iFix (requires login to IBM Fix Central)...more

Hi all!We’d like to let you all know of recent changes we’ve made to the Developer Center.If you are an on-premise 8.0 customer or Mobile Foundation service customer Developer Center has the detailed and latest documentation on MobileFirst Foundation....more

A key contributor to Digital Transformation success is creating customized and personalized digital experiences that delight users, and engage them with your brand. To fuel digital transformation, you’ll likely start with exposing your business services & data through APIs to developers – internal, partner, or third party, so that they can build innovative Mobile, Web, or IoT applications that enable digital business. Then, once you launch your applications, you’ll likely shift focus to an equally critical challenge – optimizing the user experience for your users through continuous iteration, measurement & improvement....more

This blog post is obsolete. You can now use the MobileFirst SDK for React Native apps to connect your React Native with IBM MobileFirst Foundation. Learn more....more

Obfuscation helps protecting your application against reverse engineering by others....more

The MobileFirst Platform Foundation v6.3 to v8.0 are supported on iOS 10. Read more on our support plan here....more

IntroductionLet’s say you are a marketing director of a global retailer, and you have an amazing idea about how to get more customers into your stores. Your kids have been enthusiastically playing the new Pokemon Go game, running around your neighborhood to collect augmented reality Pokemon, and you are impressed with how addictive the game is. It occurred to you that you could build a game around coupon collection modeled after Pokemon GO, in which customers would use your app to collect AR coupons in their surroundings, that they can then redeem in store. How cool!...more

A new Advanced Messenger lab for MobileFirst Foundation 8.0 is now available!In this Part 2 of the Advanced Messenger lab, developers will go through 8 hands-on lab sessions and become familiar with the latest release of MobileFirst Foundation by implementing an Ionic 2 Beta application....more

IntroductionOne of the most widely used Web and Mobile UI Automation framework is Appium/Selenium-Webdriver, in this blog I will touch upon on how we can use this for MFP AppCenter application. Appium/Selenium-Webdriver  provides a single, free and open protocol for testing without having to recompile or modify the app. I will not get into in-depth details of Appium and Selenium-Webdriver since there are plenty of examples and documentation around the same. For more details see the reference section....more

IntroductionToday’s enterprises are using DevOps techniques as a way to speed up software delivery and improve time to market. IBM Bluemix provides a large set of DevOps services such as Active Deploy, Delivery Pipeline, Auto-Scaling, etc. Companies can use these services to rapidly build a cloud based DevOps infrastructure....more

Follow the steps detailed below to setup MobileFirst Foundation 8.0’s Application Center on Bluemix using Liberty and dashDB. It consist from three sections that will guide you though the whole setup process. All instructions were recorded on macOS, but you can use also almost any Linux or Windows environment....more

IntroductionYou can setup MobileFirst Foundation on Bluemix in two ways:...more

IntroductionAs human beings, many of us spend a great deal of time thinking about the future. We can’t wait to get our hands on the newest technology, latest software versions, or latest mobile phones. Some of us embrace change more slowly, adopting new technologies when we feel it’s right to do it. Each of us moves towards the future at our own pace - some of us as sprinters, some of us as long distance runners, and others as joggers or walkers. And yet, we all move forward eventually....more

OverviewMobileFirst Foundation can be setup on Bluemix in two ways:...more

OverviewIn this blog post we cover best practices for building AngularJS apps with MobileFirst. Starting with MobileFirst Platform Foundation 7.1 support for Cordova apps was introduced and in MobileFirst Foundation 8.0 the classic Hybrid application was replaced with the Cordova application model.f you are an on-premise 7.1 or 8.0 customer or Mobile Foundation service customer, then read further to learn the best practices for building angular js apps with Mobile Foundation....more

OverviewThe purpose of this blog post is to describe how to run performance tests on the different features of MobileFirst Server in MobileFirst Foundation 8.0. An Apache JMeter performance test is used and Java classes are compiled especially for JMeter....more

OverviewThis is a sample app that was created to show off how versatile MobileFirst Foundation 8.0 is with UI Frameworks. If you are an on-premise 8.0 customer or Mobile Foundation service customer, then read further to learn how to integrate your app on Mobile Foundation with Weather service on Bluemix.In this example I demonstrate the ease of using Facebook’s ReactJS with MobileFirst Foundation 8.0. For this purpose a Cordova app was implemented using ReactJS and the MobileFirst SDK, using the Weather Services API from Bluemix....more

In Q1 2016 we announced the beta of the Mobile Foundation Bluemix service . After a successful conclusion of the beta that saw several customers try the service, we rolled in the feedback and released the GA version of the service in the public Bluemix US-SOUTH and UNITED KINGDOM regions. Thank you if you participated in the beta and gave us your feedback! Now we go down under to public Bluemix SYDNEY region. Ow ya goin mate! This completes the rollout to all the public Bluemix regions that are active at the moment....more

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IntroductionThis article walks you through on how a Bluemix liberty app (in particular Mobile foundation) connects to a on premise filebased user repository that is published as a WebDAV resource for authentication....more

The Windows 10 Anniversary Update was officially rolled out by Microsoft on August 2, 2016. The update provides a whole bunch of exciting feature for consumers and enterprises. Take a sneak peek into the features provided by the update here....more

A new Advanced Wallet lab for MobileFirst Foundation 8.0 is now available! During these three hands-on lab sessions developers will become familiar with the general steps needed to migrate from MobileFirst Platform Foundation 7.1 to MobileFirst Foundation 8.0....more

The MobileFirst SDK for Xamarin is now available for MobileFirst Foundation v8! You can download the component from the Xamarin Component Store....more

IntroductionMany of the apps you use every day, like your favorite chat and email apps, are available to you in multiple channels - like web and mobile. And you probably appreciate it if you can transition seamlessly between the two, even when it comes to authentication. Entering your credentials over and over on each device can be frustrating. What if your browser could somehow know that you already authenticated in your mobile app?...more

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OverviewIn this article we explain how to replicate an existing Mobile Foundation server to a new Mobile Foundation Server. Traditional approach is to run some scripts (.sh/.bat) that will migrate the artifacts from source to destination (db/application). In Mobile Foundation Service and in IBM Mobile Foundation 8.0 On-prem admins/operators can export the artifacts in the form of JSON’s and zip and then import it to the fresh Mobile Foundation server. The export or import operations can be done using console or direct REST calls. The various approaches are detailed below....more

IntroductionMany mobile applications require users to sign a license agreement before they can use the application. They have to first accept the terms & conditions, and then they can proceed. In case the license agreement changes, they are required to sign it again....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

IntroductionIf you have developed an Enterprise app before, you’ll know that it’s really hard to satisfy everyone. You’ll want to make your app dynamic & responsive for your users, so they enjoy engaging with your brand. You’ll want your app to provide the right experience to different types of users. And of course, you’ll want to get your code out faster for testing & feedback. And you may even want to let your product manager, designer, or business leader tweak the experience of the app without your help after you launch....more

IntroductionSMS One-Time-Password(OTP) is essential authentication method in every modern mobile application. SMS authentication and/or number verification gives your app good balance between security and user experience. More and more retails and banking apps use this method as their main authentication method....more

IntroductionLDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) is an essential protocol in the enterprise world. It provide a central place to store usernames and passwords and allowing many different applications and services to connect to the LDAP server to validate users....more

IBM plans to provide service updates to IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation to support the new Android release based on the terms described in http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27045489. Note that this policy is not dictated by the Program Technical Support’s lifecycle as stated in the product’s version announce letter because a new version of a supported mobile operating system is considered a new feature. In other words, we do not plan to introduce support for Android N in IBM Worklight Foundation 6.2 or earlier releases.For those customers who have Android apps developed using IBM Worklight Foundation 6.2 or earlier releases, and intend to have......more

A new Advanced Messenger lab for MobileFirst Foundation 8.0 is now available!In this Part 1 of the Advanced Messenger lab, developers will go through 5 hands-on lab sessions and become familiar with the latest release of MobileFirst Foundation by implementing an Ionic 2 Beta application....more

Note: Updated for changes after Mobile Analytics service went GA. Note: Updated May 15, 2018 for changes to the IBM Cloud and Mobile Analytics service user interfaces....more

Apple announced iOS 10 mid-June during their annual WWDC conference. This release of iOS includes many new user and developer oriented features. You can read more about all the new features in iOS 10 in this news bulletin....more