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Preface

• Audience
• Documentation Accessibility
• Related Documents
• Conventions

What's New in This Guide for Release 2.1.0

1 Introduction to Oracle Mobile Application Framework

• 1.1 Introduction to Mobile Application Framework
• 1.2 About the MAF Runtime Architecture
• 1.3 About Developing Applications with MAF
  • 1.3.1 About Connected and Disconnected Applications
• 1.4 Sample Applications

2 Getting Started with MAF Application Development

• 2.1 Introduction to Declarative Development for MAF Applications
• 2.2 Creating a MAF Application
  • 2.2.1 How to Create a MAF Application
  • 2.2.2 What Happens When You Create a MAF Application
• 2.3 Defining Application Features for a MAF Application
  • 2.3.1 How to Define an Application Feature
• 2.4 Adding Content to an Application Feature
• 2.5 Adding Application Features to a MAF Application
  • 2.5.1 How to Add an Application Feature to a MAF Application
  • 2.5.2 What You May Need to Know About Feature Reference IDs and Feature IDs
• 2.6 Creating MAF AMX Pages and MAF Task Flows
  • 2.6.1 How to Create a MAF AMX Page
  • 2.6.2 How to Create MAF Task Flows
  • 2.6.3 What Happens When You Create MAF AMX Pages and Task Flows

3 Configuring the Content of a MAF Application

• 3.1 Introduction to Configuring MAF Application Display Information
• 3.2 Setting Display Properties for a MAF Application
• 3.3 Setting Display Properties for an Application Feature

4 Configuring the Application Navigation

• 4.1 Introduction to the Display Behavior of MAF Applications
• 4.2 Configuring Application Navigation
• 4.3 What Happens When You Configure the Navigation Options
• 4.4 What Happens When You Set the Animation for the Springboard
• 4.5 What You May Need to Know About Custom Springboard Application Features with HTML Content
• 4.6 What You May Need to Know About Custom Springboard Application Features with MAF AMX Content
• 4.7 What You May Need to Know About the Runtime Springboard Behavior
• 4.8 Creating a Sliding Window in a MAF Application

5 Defining the Content Type of MAF Application Features

• 5.1 Introduction to Content Types for an Application Feature
• 5.2 Defining the Application Feature Content as Remote URL or Local HTML
• 5.3 Defining the Application Feature Content as a MAF AMX Page or Task Flow
• 5.4 What You May Need to Know About Selecting External Resources

6 Localizing MAF Applications

• 6.1 Introduction to MAF Application Localization
• 6.2 Setting Resource Bundle Options
• 6.3 What Happens When You Select Resource Bundle Options
• 6.4 Entering a String in a Resource Bundle
• 6.5 What Happens When You Add a Resource Bundle
• 6.6 Localizing Strings in MAF AMX UI Components
• 6.7 What Happens When You Create Project-Level Resource Bundles for MAF AMX UI Components
• 6.8 What You May Need to Know About Localizing Image Files
• 6.9 Editing a Resource Bundle File
• 6.10 What You May Need to Know About XLIFF Files for iOS Applications
• 6.11 What You May Need to Know About Internationalization for iOS Applications

7 Skinning MAF Applications

• 7.1 Introduction to MAF Application Skins
  • 7.1.1 About the maf-config.xml File
  • 7.1.2 About the maf-skins.xml File
• 7.2 Adding a Custom Skin to an Application
• 7.3 Specifying a Skin for an Application to Use
• 7.4 Registering a Custom Skin
• 7.5 Versioning MAF Skins
• 7.6 What Happens When You Version Skins
• 7.7 Overriding the Default Skin Styles
• 7.8 What Happens When You Apply a Skin to an Application Feature
• 7.9 What You May Need to Know About Skinning
• 7.10 Adding a New Style Sheet to a Skin
• 7.11 Enabling End Users Change an Application's Skin at Runtime
• 7.12 What Happens at Runtime: How End Users Change an Application's Skin

8 Reusing MAF Application Content

• 8.1 Introduction to Feature Archive Files
• 8.2 Using FAR Content in a MAF Application
• 8.3 What Happens When You Add a FAR as a Library
• 8.4 What Happens When You Add a FAR as a View Controller Project
• 8.5 What You May Need to Know About Enabling the Reuse of Feature Archive Resources

9 Using Plugins in MAF Applications

• 9.1 Introduction to Using Plugins in MAF Applications
• 9.2 Enabling a Core Plugin in Your MAF Application
  • 9.2.1 How to Enable a Core Plugin in Your MAF Application
  • 9.2.2 What Happens When You Enable a Core Plugin in Your MAF Application
• 9.3 Registering Additional Plugins in Your MAF Application
  • 9.3.1 How to Register an Additional Plugin
  • 9.3.2 What Happens When You Register an Additional Plugin for Your MAF Application
• 9.4 Deploying Plugins with Your MAF Application
• 9.5 Importing Plugins from a Feature Archive File

10 Customizing MAF Application Artifacts with MDS

• 10.1 Introduction to Applying MDS Customizations to MAF Files
• 10.2 Configuring Customization Layers
  • 10.2.1 How to Configure the Layer Values Globally
  • 10.2.2 How to Configure the Application-Level Layer Values
    • 10.2.2.1 Using the Studio Developer Role
    • 10.2.2.2 Using the Customization Developer Role
• 10.3 Creating Customization Classes
• 10.4 Consuming Customization Classes
• 10.5 Understanding a Customization Developer Role
  • 10.5.1 How to Switch to the Customization Developer Role in JDeveloper
  • 10.5.2 What You May Need to Know About the Tip Layer
• 10.6 What You May Need to Know About Web Service Data Controls and Customized Application Deployments
• 10.7 Enabling Customizations in Resource Bundles
• 10.8 Upgrading a MAF Application with Customizations
  • 10.8.1 What Happens in JDeveloper When You Upgrade Applications
  • 10.8.2 What You May Need to Know About Upgrading FARs

11 Using Lifecycle Listeners in MAF Applications

• 11.1 Introduction to Lifecycle Listeners in MAF Applications
• 11.2 Registering a Lifecycle Listener for a MAF Application or an Application Feature
• 11.3 What Happens When You Register a Lifecycle Listener

12 Creating MAF AMX Pages

• 12.1 Introduction to the MAF AMX Application Feature
• 12.2 Creating Task Flows
  • 12.2.1 How to Create a Task Flow
    • 12.2.1.1 What You May Need to Know About Behavior of New Bounded Task Flows
  • 12.2.2 What You May Need to Know About Task Flow Activities and Control Flows
  • 12.2.3 What You May Need to Know About the ViewController-task-flow.xml File
  • 12.2.4 What You May Need to Know About the MAF Task Flow Diagrammer
  • 12.2.5 How to Add and Use Task Flow Activities
    • 12.2.5.1 Adding View Activities
    • 12.2.5.2 Adding Router Activities
    • 12.2.5.3 Adding Method Call Activities
    • 12.2.5.4 Adding Task Flow Call Activities
    • 12.2.5.5 Adding Task Flow Return Activities
    • 12.2.5.6 Using Task Flow Activities with Page Definition Files
  • 12.2.6 How to Define Control Flows
    • 12.2.6.1 Defining a Control Flow Case
    • 12.2.6.2 Adding a Wildcard Control Flow Rule
    • 12.2.6.3 What You May Need to Know About Control Flow Rule Metadata
    • 12.2.6.4 What You May Need to Know About Control Flow Rule Evaluation
  • 12.2.7 What You May Need to Know About MAF Support for Back Navigation
  • 12.2.8 How to Enable Page Navigation by Dragging
  • 12.2.9 How to Specify Action Outcomes Using UI Components
  • 12.2.10 How to Create and Reference Managed Beans
  • 12.2.11 How to Specify the Page Transition Style
  • 12.2.12 What You May Need to Know About Bounded and Unbounded Task Flows
    • 12.2.12.1 Unbounded Task Flows
    • 12.2.12.2 Bounded Task Flows
    • 12.2.12.3 Using Parameters in Task Flows
• 12.3 Creating Views
  • 12.3.1 How to Work with MAF AMX Pages
    • 12.3.1.1 Interpreting the MAF AMX Page Structure
    • 12.3.1.2 Creating MAF AMX Pages
    • 12.3.1.3 What Happens When You Create a MAF AMX Page
    • 12.3.1.4 Using UI Editors
    • 12.3.1.5 Accessing the Page Definition File
    • 12.3.1.6 Sharing the Page Contents
  • 12.3.2 How to Add UI Components and Data Controls to a MAF AMX Page
    • 12.3.2.1 Adding UI Components
    • 12.3.2.2 Using the Preview
    • 12.3.2.3 Configuring UI Components
    • 12.3.2.4 Adding Data Controls to the View
    • 12.3.2.5 What You May Need to Know About Element Identifiers and Their Audit
  • 12.3.3 What You May Need to Know About the Server Communication

13 Creating the MAF AMX User Interface

• 13.1 Introduction to Creating the User Interface for MAF AMX Pages
• 13.2 Designing the Page Layout
  • 13.2.1 How to Use a View Component
  • 13.2.2 How to Use a Panel Page Component
  • 13.2.3 How to Use a Panel Group Layout Component
    • 13.2.3.1 Customizing the Scrolling Behavior
  • 13.2.4 How to Use a Panel Form Layout Component
  • 13.2.5 How to Use a Panel Stretch Layout Component
  • 13.2.6 How to Use a Panel Label And Message Component
  • 13.2.7 How to Use a Facet Component
  • 13.2.8 How to Use a Popup Component
  • 13.2.9 How to Use a Panel Splitter Component
  • 13.2.10 How to Use a Spacer Component
  • 13.2.11 How to Use a Table Layout Component
  • 13.2.12 How to Use a Deck Component
  • 13.2.13 How to Use the Fragment Component
• 13.3 Creating and Using UI Components
  • 13.3.1 How to Use the Input Text Component
    • 13.3.1.1 Customizing the Input Text Component
  • 13.3.2 How to Use the Input Number Slider Component
  • 13.3.3 How to Use the Input Date Component
  • 13.3.4 How to Use the Output Text Component
  • 13.3.5 How to Use Buttons
    • 13.3.5.1 Displaying Default Style Buttons
    • 13.3.5.2 Displaying Back Style Buttons
    • 13.3.5.3 Displaying Highlight Style Buttons
    • 13.3.5.4 Displaying Alert Style Buttons
    • 13.3.5.5 Using Additional Button Styles
    • 13.3.5.6 Using Buttons Within the Application
    • 13.3.5.7 Enabling the Back Button Navigation
    • 13.3.5.8 What You May Need to Know About the Order of Processing Operations and Attributes
  • 13.3.6 How to Use Links
  • 13.3.7 How to Display Images
  • 13.3.8 How to Use the Checkbox Component
    • 13.3.8.1 Support for Checkbox Components on the iOS Platform
    • 13.3.8.2 Support for Checkbox Components on the Android Platform
  • 13.3.9 How to Use the Select Many Checkbox Component
    • 13.3.9.1 What You May Need to Know About the User Interaction with Select Many Checkbox Component
  • 13.3.10 How to Use the Choice Component
    • 13.3.10.1 What You May Need to Know About the User Interaction with Choice Component on iOS Platform
    • 13.3.10.2 What You May Need to Know About the User Interaction with Choice Component on the Android Platform
    • 13.3.10.3 What You May Need to Know About Differences Between Select Items and Select Item Components
  • 13.3.11 How to Use the Select Many Choice Component
  • 13.3.12 How to Use the Boolean Switch Component
    • 13.3.12.1 What You May Need to Know About Support for Boolean Switch Components on iOS Platform
    • 13.3.12.2 What You May Need to Know About Support for Boolean Switch Components on the Android Platform
  • 13.3.13 How to Use the Select Button Component
  • 13.3.14 How to Use the Radio Button Component
  • 13.3.15 How to Use List View and List Item Components
    • 13.3.15.1 Configuring Paging and Dynamic Scrolling
    • 13.3.15.2 What You May Need to Know About Memory Consumption by MAF AMX UI Components
    • 13.3.15.3 Rearranging List View Items
    • 13.3.15.4 Configuring the List View Layout
    • 13.3.15.5 What You May Need to Know About Using Static List View
  • 13.3.16 How to Use Carousel Component
  • 13.3.17 How to Use the Film Strip Component
    • 13.3.17.1 What You May Need to Know About the Film Strip Layout
    • 13.3.17.2 What You May Need to Know About the Film Strip Navigation
  • 13.3.18 How to Use Verbatim Component
    • 13.3.18.1 What You May Need to Know About Using JavaScript and AJAX with Verbatim Component
  • 13.3.19 How to Use Output HTML Component
  • 13.3.20 How to Enable Iteration
  • 13.3.21 How to Load a Resource Bundle
  • 13.3.22 How to Use the Action Listener
    • 13.3.22.1 What You May Need to Know About Differences Between the Action Listener Component and Attribute
  • 13.3.23 How to Use the Set Property Listener
  • 13.3.24 How to Use the Client Listener
  • 13.3.25 How to Convert Date and Time Values
    • 13.3.25.1 What You May Need to Know About Date and Time Patterns
  • 13.3.26 How to Convert Numerical Values
  • 13.3.27 How to Enable Drag Navigation
    • 13.3.27.1 What You May Need to Know About the disabled Attribute
  • 13.3.28 How to Use the Loading Indicator
• 13.4 Enabling Gestures
• 13.5 Providing Data Visualization
  • 13.5.1 How to Create an Area Chart
  • 13.5.2 How to Create a Bar Chart
  • 13.5.3 How to Create a Bubble Chart
  • 13.5.4 How to Create a Combo Chart
  • 13.5.5 How to Create a Line Chart
  • 13.5.6 How to Create a Pie Chart
    • 13.5.6.1 Configuring the Pie Chart as a Ring Chart
    • 13.5.6.2 Styling the Pie Chart
  • 13.5.7 How to Create a Scatter Chart
  • 13.5.8 How to Create a Spark Chart
  • 13.5.9 How to Create a Funnel Chart
  • 13.5.10 How to Style Chart Components
  • 13.5.11 How to Use Events with Chart Components
  • 13.5.12 How to Create a LED Gauge
  • 13.5.13 How to Create a Status Meter Gauge
  • 13.5.14 How to Create a Dial Gauge
  • 13.5.15 How to Create a Rating Gauge
    • 13.5.15.1 Applying Custom Styling to the Rating Gauge Component
  • 13.5.16 How to Define Child Elements for Chart and Gauge Components
    • 13.5.16.1 Defining Chart Data Item
    • 13.5.16.2 Defining and Configuring Legend
    • 13.5.16.3 Defining and Configuring X Axis, YAxis, and Y2Axis
    • 13.5.16.4 Defining Pie Data Item
    • 13.5.16.5 Defining Spark Data Item
    • 13.5.16.6 Defining Funnel Data Item
    • 13.5.16.7 Defining Threshold
  • 13.5.17 How to Create a Geographic Map Component
    • 13.5.17.1 Configuring Geographic Map Components With the Map Provider Information
    • 13.5.17.2 Displaying Route in Geographic Map Components
  • 13.5.18 How to Create a Thematic Map Component
    • 13.5.18.1 Defining Custom Markers
    • 13.5.18.2 Defining Isolated Area Layers
    • 13.5.18.3 Defining Isolated Areas
    • 13.5.18.4 Enabling Initial Zooming
    • 13.5.18.5 Defining a Custom Base Map
    • 13.5.18.6 What You May Need to Know About the Marker Support for Event Listeners
    • 13.5.18.7 Applying Custom Styling to the Thematic Map Component
  • 13.5.19 How to Use Events with Map Components
  • 13.5.20 How to Create a Treemap Component
    • 13.5.20.1 Applying Custom Styling to the Treemap Component
  • 13.5.21 How to Create a Sunburst Component
    • 13.5.21.1 Applying Custom Styling to the Sunburst Component
  • 13.5.22 How to Create a Timeline Component
    • 13.5.22.1 Applying Custom Styling to the Timeline Component
  • 13.5.23 How to Create an NBox Component
  • 13.5.24 How to Define Child Elements for Map Components, Sunburst, Treemap, Timeline, and NBox
  • 13.5.25 How to Create Databound Data Visualization Components
    • 13.5.25.1 What You May Need to Know About Setting Series Style for Databound Chart Components
  • 13.5.26 How to Create Data Visualization Components Based on Static Data
  • 13.5.27 How to Enable Interactivity in Chart Components
  • 13.5.28 How to Create Polar Charts
• 13.6 Styling UI Components
  • 13.6.1 How to Use Component Attributes to Define Style
  • 13.6.2 What You May Need to Know About Skinning
  • 13.6.3 What You May Need to Know About Using CSS ID Selectors for Skinning
  • 13.6.4 How to Style Data Visualization Components
• 13.7 Localizing UI Components
• 13.8 Understanding MAF Support for Accessibility
  • 13.8.1 How to Configure UI and Data Visualization Components for Accessibility
  • 13.8.2 What You May Need to Know About the Basic WAI-ARIA Terms
  • 13.8.3 What You May Need to Know About the Oracle Global HTML Accessibility Guidelines
• 13.9 Validating Input
• 13.10 Using Event Listeners
  • 13.10.1 What You May Need to Know About Constrained Type Attributes for Event Listeners

14 Using Bindings and Creating Data Controls in MAF AMX

• 14.1 Introduction to Bindings and Data Controls
• 14.2 About Object Scope Lifecycles
  • 14.2.1 What You May Need to Know About Object Scopes and Task Flows
• 14.3 Creating EL Expressions
  • 14.3.1 About Data Binding EL Expressions
  • 14.3.2 How to Create an EL Expression
    • 14.3.2.1 About the Method Expression Builder
    • 14.3.2.2 About Non EL-Properties
  • 14.3.3 What You May Need to Know About MAF Binding Properties
  • 14.3.4 How to Reference Binding Containers
  • 14.3.5 About the Categories in the Expression Builder
    • 14.3.5.1 About the Bindings Category
    • 14.3.5.2 About the Managed Beans Category
    • 14.3.5.3 About the Mobile Application Framework Objects Category
  • 14.3.6 About EL Events
  • 14.3.7 How to Use EL Expressions Within Managed Beans
• 14.4 Creating and Using Managed Beans
  • 14.4.1 How to Create a Managed Bean in JDeveloper
  • 14.4.2 What Happens When You Use JDeveloper to Create a Managed Bean
• 14.5 Exposing Business Services with Data Controls
  • 14.5.1 How to Create Data Controls
  • 14.5.2 What Happens in Your Project When You Create a Data Control
    • 14.5.2.1 DataControls.dcx Overview Editor
    • 14.5.2.2 Data Controls Panel
  • 14.5.3 Data Control Built-in Operations
• 14.6 Creating Databound UI Components from the Data Controls Panel
  • 14.6.1 How to Use the Data Controls Panel
  • 14.6.2 What Happens When You Use the Data Controls Panel
• 14.7 What Happens at Runtime: How the Binding Context Works
• 14.8 Configuring Data Controls
  • 14.8.1 How to Edit a Data Control
  • 14.8.2 What Happens When You Edit a Data Control
  • 14.8.3 What You May Need to Know About MDS Customization of Data Controls
• 14.9 Working with Attributes
  • 14.9.1 How to Designate an Attribute as Primary Key
  • 14.9.2 How to Define a Static Default Value for an Attribute
  • 14.9.3 How to Set UI Hints on Attributes
  • 14.9.4 What Happens When You Set UI Hints on Attributes
  • 14.9.5 How to Access UI Hints Using EL Expressions
• 14.10 Creating and Using Bean Data Controls
  • 14.10.1 What You May Need to Know About Serialization of Bean Class Variables
• 14.11 Using the DeviceFeatures Data Control
  • 14.11.1 How to Use the getPicture Method to Enable Taking Pictures
  • 14.11.2 How to Use the SendSMS Method to Enable Text Messaging
  • 14.11.3 How to Use the sendEmail Method to Enable Email
  • 14.11.4 How to Use the createContact Method to Enable Creating Contacts
  • 14.11.5 How to Use the findContacts Method to Enable Finding Contacts
  • 14.11.6 How to Use the updateContact Method to Enable Updating Contacts
  • 14.11.7 How to Use the removeContact Method to Enable Removing Contacts
  • 14.11.8 How to Use the startLocationMonitor Method to Enable Geolocation
  • 14.11.9 How to Use the displayFile Method to Enable Displaying Files
  • 14.11.10 What You May Need to Know About Device Properties
• 14.12 Validating Attributes
  • 14.12.1 How to Add Validation Rules
  • 14.12.2 What You May Need to Know About the Validator Metadata
• 14.13 About Data Change Events

15 Using Web Services in MAF AMX

• 15.1 Introduction to Using Web Services in MAF Applications
• 15.2 Creating a Web Service Data Control Using REST
• 15.3 Creating a Web Service Data Control Using SOAP
  • 15.3.1 How to Customize SOAP Headers
  • 15.3.2 How to Access Objects Returned by SOAP Calls
• 15.4 What You May Need to Know About Web Service Data Controls
• 15.5 Creating a New Web Service Connection
• 15.6 Adjusting the End Point for a Web Service Data Control
• 15.7 Accessing Secure Web Services
  • 15.7.1 How to Enable Access to SOAP-Based Web Services
  • 15.7.2 How to Enable Access to REST-Based Web Services
  • 15.7.3 What You May Need to Know About Credential Injection
  • 15.7.4 Limitations of Secure WSDL File Usage
• 15.8 Invoking Web Services From Java
  • 15.8.1 How to Add and Delete Rows on Web Services Objects
  • 15.8.2 How to Use REST Web Services Adapter
    • 15.8.2.1 Accessing Input and Output Streams
    • 15.8.2.2 Support for Non-Text Responses
  • 15.8.3 How to Enable Strict Validation of REST Responses
  • 15.8.4 How to Process JSON Responses
  • 15.8.5 What You May Need to Know About Invoking Data Control Operations
• 15.9 Understanding Limitations Related to MAF Support for JavaScript
• 15.10 Configuring the Browser Proxy Information

16 Configuring End Points Used in MAF Applications

• 16.1 Introduction to Configuring End Points in MAF Applications
• 16.2 Defining the Configuration Service End Point
• 16.3 Creating the User Interface for the Configuration Service
• 16.4 About the URL Construction
• 16.5 Setting Up the Configuration Service on the Server
• 16.6 Migrating the Configuration Service from ADF Mobile

17 Using the Local Database in MAF AMX

• 17.1 Introduction to the Local SQLite Database Usage
  • 17.1.1 Differences Between SQLite and Other Relational Databases
    • 17.1.1.1 Concurrency
    • 17.1.1.2 SQL Support and Interpretation
    • 17.1.1.3 Data Types
    • 17.1.1.4 Foreign Keys
    • 17.1.1.5 Database Transactions
    • 17.1.1.6 Authentication
• 17.2 Using the Local SQLite Database
  • 17.2.1 How to Connect to the Database
  • 17.2.2 How to Use SQL Script to Initialize the Database
  • 17.2.3 How to Initialize the Database on a Desktop
  • 17.2.4 What You May Need to Know About Commit Handling
  • 17.2.5 Limitations of the MAF's SQLite JDBC Driver
  • 17.2.6 How to Use the VACUUM Command
  • 17.2.7 How to Encrypt and Decrypt the Database
  • 17.2.8 What You May Need to Know About the StockTracker Sample Application

18 Customizing MAF AMX Application Feature Artifacts

• 18.1 Introduction to Customizing MAF AMX Pages and Artifacts
• 18.2 Customizing MAF AMX Pages and Artifacts

19 Creating Custom MAF AMX UI Components

• 19.1 Introduction to Creating Custom UI Components
• 19.2 Using MAF APIs to Create Custom Components
  • 19.2.1 How to Use Static APIs
  • 19.2.2 How to Use AmxEvent Classes
  • 19.2.3 How to Use the TypeHandler
  • 19.2.4 How to Use the AmxNode
  • 19.2.5 How to Use the AmxTag
  • 19.2.6 How to Use the VisitContext
  • 19.2.7 How to Use the AmxAttributeChange
  • 19.2.8 How to Use the AmxDescendentChanges
  • 19.2.9 How to Use the AmxCollectionChange
  • 19.2.10 How to Use the AmxNodeChangeResult
  • 19.2.11 How to Use the AmxNodeStates
  • 19.2.12 How to Use the AmxNodeUpdateArguments
• 19.3 Creating Custom Components

20 Implementing Application Feature Content Using Remote URLs

• 20.1 Overview of Remote URL Applications
  • 20.1.1 Enabling Remote Applications to Access Device Services through Whitelists
  • 20.1.2 Enabling Remote Applications to Access Container Services
  • 20.1.3 How Whitelisted Domains Access Device Capabilities
  • 20.1.4 How to Create a Whitelist (or Restrict a Domain)
  • 20.1.5 What Happens When You Add Domains to a Whitelist
  • 20.1.6 What You May Need to Know About Remote URLs
• 20.2 Creating Whitelists for Application Components
• 20.3 Enabling the Browser Navigation Bar on Remote URL Pages
  • 20.3.1 How to Add the Navigation Bar to a Remote URL Application Feature
  • 20.3.2 What Happens When You Enable the Browser Navigation Buttons for a Remote URL Application Feature
• 20.4 Invoking MAF Applications Using a Custom URL Scheme
• 20.5 About Authoring Remote Content

21 Enabling User Preferences

• 21.1 Creating User Preference Pages for a Mobile Application
  • 21.1.1 How to Create Mobile Application-Level Preferences Pages
    • 21.1.1.1 How to Create a New User Preference Page
    • 21.1.1.2 What Happens When You Add a Preference Page
    • 21.1.1.3 How to Create User Preference Lists
    • 21.1.1.4 What Happens When You Create a Preference List
    • 21.1.1.5 How to Create a Boolean Preference List
    • 21.1.1.6 What Happens When You Add a Boolean Preference
    • 21.1.1.7 How to Add a Text Preference
    • 21.1.1.8 What Happens When You Define a Text Preference
  • 21.1.2 What Happens When You Create an Application-Level Preference Page
• 21.2 Creating User Preference Pages for Application Features
• 21.3 Using EL Expressions to Retrieve Stored Values for User Preference Pages
  • 21.3.1 What You May Need to Know About preferenceScope
  • 21.3.2 Reading Preference Values in iOS Native Views
• 21.4 Platform-Dependent Display Differences

22 Setting Constraints on Application Features

• 22.1 Introduction to Constraints
  • 22.1.1 Using Constraints to Show or Hide an Application Feature
  • 22.1.2 Using Constraints to Deliver Specific Content Types
• 22.2 Defining Constraints for Application Features
  • 22.2.1 How to Define the Constraints for an Application Feature
  • 22.2.2 What Happens When You Define a Constraint
  • 22.2.3 About the property Attribute
  • 22.2.4 About User Constraints and Access Control
  • 22.2.5 About Hardware-Related Constraints
  • 22.2.6 Creating Dynamic Constraints on Application Features and Content
    • 22.2.6.1 About Combining Static and EL-Defined Constraints
    • 22.2.6.2 How to Define a Dynamic Constraint

23 Accessing Data on Oracle Cloud

• 23.1 Enabling MAF Applications to Access Data Hosted on Oracle Cloud
  • 23.1.1 How to Authenticate Against Oracle Cloud
  • 23.1.2 How to Create a Web Service Data Control to Access Oracle Java Cloud
    • 23.1.2.1 Configuring the Policy for SOAP-Based Web Services
  • 23.1.3 What Happens When You Deploy a MAF Application that Accesses Oracle Java Cloud Service

24 Enabling and Using Notifications

• 24.1 Introduction to Push Notifications
  • 24.1.1 How MAF Applications Display Notifications Depending on Application State
• 24.2 Enabling Push Notifications for a MAF Application
• 24.3 What You May Need to Know About the Push Notification Payload

25 Synchronizing and Caching Data

• 25.1 Introduction to Data Caching and Synchronization
  • 25.1.1 Implementing Data Caching with the sync-config.xml File
  • 25.1.2 What You May Need to Know About Using a FAR to Update the sync-config.xml File

26 Displaying Error Messages in MAF Applications

• 26.1 Introduction to Error Handling in MAF Applications
• 26.2 Displaying Error Messages and Stopping Background Threads
  • 26.2.1 How Applications Display Error Message for Background Thread Exceptions
• 26.3 Localizing Error Messages

27 Deploying MAF Applications

• 27.1 Introduction to Deployment of MAF Applications
  • 27.1.1 MAF Deployment Options
    • 27.1.1.1 Deployment of Project Libraries
    • 27.1.1.2 Deployment of the JVM Libraries
• 27.2 Working with Deployment Profiles
  • 27.2.1 About Automatically Generated Deployment Profiles
  • 27.2.2 How to Create a Deployment Profile
  • 27.2.3 What Happens When You Create a Deployment Profile
  • 27.2.4 How to Create an Android Deployment Profile
    • 27.2.4.1 Setting the Options for the Application Details
    • 27.2.4.2 Setting Deployment Options
    • 27.2.4.3 Defining the Android Signing Options
    • 27.2.4.4 What You May Need to Know About Credential Storage
    • 27.2.4.5 How to Add a Custom Image to an Android Application
    • 27.2.4.6 What Happens When JDeveloper Deploys Images for Android Applications
  • 27.2.5 How to Create an iOS Deployment Profile
    • 27.2.5.1 Defining the iOS Build Options
    • 27.2.5.2 Setting the Device Signing Options
    • 27.2.5.3 Adding a Custom Image to an iOS Application
    • 27.2.5.4 What You May Need to Know About iTunes Artwork
    • 27.2.5.5 How to Restrict the Display to a Specific Device Orientation
    • 27.2.5.6 What Happens When You Deselect Device Orientations
• 27.3 Deploying an Android Application
  • 27.3.1 How to Deploy an Android Application to an Android Emulator
  • 27.3.2 How to Deploy an Application to an Android-Powered Device
  • 27.3.3 How to Publish an Android Application
  • 27.3.4 What Happens in JDeveloper When You Create an .apk File
  • 27.3.5 Selecting the Most Recently Used Deployment Profiles
  • 27.3.6 What You May Need to Know About Using the Android Debug Bridge
• 27.4 Deploying an iOS Application
  • 27.4.1 How to Deploy an iOS Application to an iOS Simulator
  • 27.4.2 How to Deploy an Application to an iOS-Powered Device
  • 27.4.3 What Happens When You Deploy an Application to an iOS Device
  • 27.4.4 What You May Need to Know About Deploying an Application to an iOS-Powered Device
    • 27.4.4.1 Creating iOS Development Certificates
    • 27.4.4.2 Registering an Apple Device for Testing and Debugging
    • 27.4.4.3 Registering an Application ID
  • 27.4.5 How to Distribute an iOS Application to the App Store
• 27.5 Deploying Feature Archive Files (FARs)
  • 27.5.1 How to Create a Deployment Profile for a Feature Archive
  • 27.5.2 How to Deploy the Feature Archive Deployment Profile
  • 27.5.3 What Happens When You Deploy a Feature Archive File Deployment Profile
• 27.6 Creating a Mobile Application Archive File
  • 27.6.1 How to Create a Mobile Application Archive File
• 27.7 Creating Unsigned Deployment Packages
  • 27.7.1 How to Create an Unsigned Application
  • 27.7.2 What Happens When You Import a MAF Application Archive File
• 27.8 Deploying MAF Applications from the Command Line
  • 27.8.1 Using OJDeploy to Deploy Mobile Applications
• 27.9 Deploying with Oracle Mobile Security Suite

28 Understanding Secure Mobile Development Practices

• 28.1 Weak Server-Side Controls
• 28.2 Insecure Data Storage on the Device
  • 28.2.1 Encrypting the SQLite Database
  • 28.2.2 Securing the Device's Local Data Stores
  • 28.2.3 About Security and Application Logs
• 28.3 Insufficient Transport Layer Protection
• 28.4 Side-Channel Data Leakage
• 28.5 Poor Authorization and Authentication
• 28.6 Broken Cryptography
• 28.7 Client-Side Injection From Cross-Site Scripting
  • 28.7.1 Protecting Applications Against XSS Through Whitelists
  • 28.7.2 Protecting MAF Applications from Injection Attacks Using Device Access Permissions
  • 28.7.3 About Injection Attack Risks from Custom HTML Components
  • 28.7.4 About SQL Injections and XML Injections
• 28.8 Security Decisions From Untrusted Inputs
• 28.9 Improper Session Handling
• 28.10 Lack of Binary Protections Resulting in Sensitive Information Disclosure

29 Securing MAF Applications

• 29.1 Introduction to MAF Security
• 29.2 About the User Login Process
• 29.3 Overview of the Authentication Process for MAF Applications
• 29.4 Configuring MAF Connections
  • 29.4.1 How to Create a MAF Login Connection
  • 29.4.2 How to Configure Basic Authentication
  • 29.4.3 How to Configure Authentication Using Oracle Mobile and Social Identity Management
  • 29.4.4 How to Configure OAuth Authentication
  • 29.4.5 How to Configure Web SSO Authentication
  • 29.4.6 How to Configure a Placeholder Connection for MAF Application Login
  • 29.4.7 How to Update Connection Attributes of a Named Connection at Runtime
  • 29.4.8 How to Store Login Credentials
  • 29.4.9 What Happens When You Create a Connection for a MAF Application
  • 29.4.10 What You May Need to Know About the Login Connection Configuration
  • 29.4.11 What You May Need to Know About Multiple Identities for Local and Hybrid Login Connections
  • 29.4.12 What You May Need to Know About Migrating a MAF Application and Authentication Modes
  • 29.4.13 What Happens When You Enable Cookie Injection into REST Web Service Calls
  • 29.4.14 What You May Need to Know About Adding Cookies to REST Web Service Calls
  • 29.4.15 What Happens at Runtime: When MAF Calls a REST Web Service
  • 29.4.16 What You May Need to Know About Injecting Basic Authentication Headers
  • 29.4.17 What You May Need to Know About Web Service Security
  • 29.4.18 How to Configure Access Control
  • 29.4.19 What You May Need to Know About the Access Control Service
  • 29.4.20 How to Alter the Application Loading Sequence
  • 29.4.21 What Happens When You Define a Multi-Tenant Connection
• 29.5 Configuring Security for MAF Applications
  • 29.5.1 How to Enable Application Features to Require Authentication
  • 29.5.2 How to Designate the Login Page
  • 29.5.3 How to Create a Custom Login HTML or Custom KBA Page
  • 29.5.4 What You May Need to Know About Login Pages
    • 29.5.4.1 The Default Login Page
    • 29.5.4.2 The Custom Login Page
  • 29.5.5 What You May Need to Know About Login Page Elements
  • 29.5.6 What Happens in JDeveloper When You Configure Security for Application Features
• 29.6 Allowing Access to Device Capabilities
• 29.7 Enabling Users to Log Out from Application Features
• 29.8 Supporting SSL

30 Testing and Debugging MAF Applications

• 30.1 Introduction to Testing and Debugging MAF Applications
• 30.2 Testing MAF Applications
  • 30.2.1 How to Perform Accessibility Testing on iOS-Powered Devices
• 30.3 Debugging MAF Applications
  • 30.3.1 What You May Need to Know About the Debugging Configuration
  • 30.3.2 How to Debug on the iOS Platform
  • 30.3.3 How to Debug on the Android Platform
  • 30.3.4 How to Debug the MAF AMX Content
  • 30.3.5 How to Enable Debugging of Java Code and JavaScript
    • 30.3.5.1 What You May Need to Know About Debugging of JavaScript Using an iOS-Powered Device Simulator on iOS 7 and iOS 8 Platforms
• 30.4 Using and Configuring Logging
  • 30.4.1 How to Configure Logging Using the Properties File
  • 30.4.2 How to Use JavaScript Logging
  • 30.4.3 How to Use Embedded Logging
  • 30.4.4 How to Use Xcode for Debugging and Logging on the iOS Platform
  • 30.4.5 How to Access the Application Log

A Troubleshooting

• A.1 Problems with Input Components on iOS Simulators
• A.2 The Geographic Map Component Limits Number of Address Points
• A.3 Code Signing Issues Prevent Deployment
• A.4 The credentials Attribute Causes Deployment to Fail

B Local HTML and Application Container APIs

• B.1 Using MAF APIs to Create a Custom HTML Springboard Application Feature
  • B.1.1 About Executing Code in Custom HTML Pages
• B.2 The MAF Container Utilities API
  • B.2.1 Using the JavaScript Callbacks
  • B.2.2 Using the Container Utilities API
  • B.2.3 getApplicationInformation
  • B.2.4 gotoDefaultFeature
  • B.2.5 gotoFeature
  • B.2.6 getFeatures
  • B.2.7 getFeatureByName
  • B.2.8 getFeatureById
  • B.2.9 resetFeature
  • B.2.10 resetApplication
  • B.2.11 gotoSpringboard
  • B.2.12 showSpringboard
  • B.2.13 hideSpringboard
  • B.2.14 showNavigationBar
  • B.2.15 hideNavigationBar
  • B.2.16 showPreferences
  • B.2.17 invokeMethod
  • B.2.18 invokeContainerMethod
  • B.2.19 invokeContainerJavaScriptFunction
  • B.2.20 sendEmail
  • B.2.21 sendSMS
  • B.2.22 Application Icon Badging
• B.3 Accessing Files Using the getDirectoryPathRoot Method
  • B.3.1 Accessing Platform-Independent Download Locations

C MAF Application and Project Files

• C.1 Introduction to MAF Application and Project Files
• C.2 About the Application Controller Project-Level Resources
• C.3 About the View Controller Project Resources
• C.4 About the MAF Application Configuration File
• C.5 About the MAF Application Feature Configuration File

D Converting Preferences for Deployment

• D.1 Naming Patterns for Preferences
• D.2 Converting Preferences for Android
  • D.2.1 maf_references.xml
    • D.2.1.1 Preferences Element Mapping
    • D.2.1.2 Preference Attribute Mapping
    • D.2.1.3 Attribute Default Values
    • D.2.1.4 Preferences Screen Root Element
  • D.2.2 maf_arrays.xml
  • D.2.3 maf_strings.xml
• D.3 Converting Preferences for iOS

E MAF Application Usage

• E.1 Introduction to MAF Application Usage
• E.2 Installing the MAF Application on a Mobile Device
  • E.2.1 How to Install MAF Applications on iOS-Powered Devices
  • E.2.2 How to Install MAF Applications on Android-Powered Devices
  • E.2.3 How to Uninstall a MAF Application
• E.3 Navigating Between Application Features
  • E.3.1 How to Navigate Between Application Features on iOS-Powered Devices
    • E.3.1.1 Navigating Using the Springboard
    • E.3.1.2 Using Single-Featured Applications
  • E.3.2 How to Navigate on Android-Powered Devices
• E.4 Setting Preferences
  • E.4.1 How to Set Preferences on iOS-Powered Devices
  • E.4.2 How to Set Preferences on Android-Powered Devices
• E.5 Viewing Log Files
• E.6 Limitations to the Application Usage
  • E.6.1 List View Component Limitations
  • E.6.2 Data Visualization Components Limitations
  • E.6.3 Device Back Button Limitations on the Android Platform
  • E.6.4 Accessibility Support Limitations

F Parsing XML

• F.1 Parsing XML Using kXML Library

G MAF Sample Applications

• G.1 Overview of the MAF Sample Applications