Table of Contents

• Title and Copyright Information
• Preface
  • Audience
  • Documentation Accessibility
  • Related Documents
  • Conventions
• Part I Understanding Mobile Application Framework
  • 1 Introduction to Oracle Mobile Application Framework
    • 1.1 Introduction to Mobile Application Framework
    • 1.2 About the Mobile Application Framework Runtime Architecture
    • 1.3 About Developing Applications with Oracle Mobile Application Framework
      • 1.3.1 About Connected and Disconnected Applications
    • 1.4 Sample Applications
• Part II Getting Started
  • 2 Setting Up the Development Environment
    • 2.1 Introduction to the MAF Environment
    • 2.2 Prerequisites for Developing MAF Applications
      • 2.2.1 What You Need to Develop an Application for iOS Platform
      • 2.2.2 What You Need to Develop an Application for Android Platform
      • 2.2.3 What You May Need to Know About Supported IDEs
      • 2.2.4 What You May Need to Know About Migrating Plug-Ins
    • 2.3 Setting Up JDeveloper
      • 2.3.1 How to Configure the Development Environment for Platforms and Form Factors
    • 2.4 Setting Up Development Tools for iOS Platform
      • 2.4.1 How to Install Xcode
      • 2.4.2 How to Install iOS SDK
      • 2.4.3 How to Set Up an iPhone or iPad
      • 2.4.4 How to Set Up an iPhone or iPad Simulator
    • 2.5 Setting Up Development Tools for Android Platform
      • 2.5.1 How to Install the Android SDK
      • 2.5.2 How to Set Up an Android-Powered Device
      • 2.5.3 How to Set Up an Android Emulator
    • 2.6 Testing the Environment Setup
  • 3 Getting Started with Mobile Application Development
    • 3.1 Introduction to Declarative Development for MAF Applications
    • 3.2 Creating an Application Workspace
      • 3.2.1 How to Create a Workspace for a Mobile Application
      • 3.2.2 What Happens When You Create a MAF Application
      • 3.2.3 What You May Need to Know About Editing MAF Applications and Application Features
      • 3.2.4 Creating an Application Workspace for a MAF AMX Application
    • 3.3 Migrating ADF Mobile Applications
      • 3.3.1 What Happens When You Migrate an ADF Mobile Application
      • 3.3.2 What You May Need to Know About FARs in Migrated Applications
      • 3.3.3 Migrating Applications in Headless Mode
• Part III Developing MAF Applications
  • 4 Defining a Mobile Application
    • 4.1 Introduction to Defining Mobile Applications
      • 4.1.1 Using the Overview Editor for maf-application.xml
    • 4.2 About the Mobile Application Configuration File
    • 4.3 Setting the Basic Information for a Mobile Application
      • 4.3.1 How to Set the ID and Display Behavior for a Mobile Application
    • 4.4 Invoking a Mobile Application Using a Custom URL Scheme
    • 4.5 Configuring the Springboard and Navigation Bar Behavior
      • 4.5.1 How to Configure Application Navigation
      • 4.5.2 What Happens When You Configure the Navigation Options
      • 4.5.3 What Happens When You Set the Animation for the Springboard
      • 4.5.4 What You May Need to Know About Custom Springboard Application Features with HTML Content
      • 4.5.5 What You May Need to Know About Custom Springboard Application Features with MAF AMX Content
      • 4.5.6 What You May Need to Know About the Runtime Springboard Behavior
    • 4.6 Configuring the Application Features within a Mobile Application
      • 4.6.1 How to Designate the Content for a Mobile Application
      • 4.6.2 What You May Need to Know About Feature Reference IDs and Feature IDs
    • 4.7 About Lifecycle Event Listeners
      • 4.7.1 Events in Mobile Applications
      • 4.7.2 Timing for Mobile Application Events
      • 4.7.3 Using the activate and deactivate Methods to Save Application State
      • 4.7.4 About Application Feature Lifecycle Listener Classes
      • 4.7.5 Timing for Activate and Deactivate Events in the Application Feature Lifecycle
      • 4.7.6 Enabling Sliding Windows
    • 4.8 About the Mobile Application Feature Configuration File
    • 4.9 Setting the Basic Configuration for the Application Features
      • 4.9.1 How to Define the Basic Information for an Application Feature
    • 4.10 Defining the Content Types for an Application Feature
      • 4.10.1 How to Define the Application Content
      • 4.10.2 What You May Need to Know About Selecting External Resources
    • 4.11 Working with Localized Content
      • 4.11.1 Working with Resource Bundles
    • 4.12 Skinning Mobile Applications
      • 4.12.1 About the maf-config.xml File
      • 4.12.2 What You May Need to Know About MAF Styles
      • 4.12.3 About the maf-skins.xml File
      • 4.12.4 How to Add a Custom Skin to an Application
      • 4.12.5 How to Specify a Skin for an Application to Use
      • 4.12.6 How to Register a Custom Skin
      • 4.12.7 How to Version MAF Skins
      • 4.12.8 What Happens When You Version Skins
      • 4.12.9 Overriding the Default Skin Styles
      • 4.12.10 What You May Need to Know About Skinning
      • 4.12.11 What You May Need to Know About Migrating Skinning Styles
      • 4.12.12 Enabling Dynamic Skin Selection at Runtime
    • 4.13 Working with Feature Archive Files
      • 4.13.1 How to Use FAR Content in a MAF Application
      • 4.13.2 What Happens When You Add a FAR as a Library
      • 4.13.3 What Happens When You Add a FAR as a View Controller Project
      • 4.13.4 What You May Need to Know About Enabling the Reuse of Feature Archive Resources
      • 4.13.5 What You May Need to Know About Using a FAR to Update the sync-config.xml File
    • 4.14 Customizing MAF Files Using Oracle Metadata Services
      • 4.14.1 How to Create a Customization Layer
      • 4.14.2 How to Create a Customization Class
      • 4.14.3 How to Enable the Design Time to Access the Customization Class
      • 4.14.4 What You May Need to Know About Web Service Data Controls and Customized Application Deployments
      • 4.14.5 What Happens When You Customize a Mobile Application
      • 4.14.6 Enabling Customizations in Resource Bundles in Mobile Applications
      • 4.14.7 Upgrading a Mobile Application with Customizations
      • 4.14.8 What Happens in JDeveloper When You Upgrade Applications
      • 4.14.9 What You May Need to Know About Upgrading FARs
    • 4.15 Integrating Cordova Plugins into Mobile Applications
      • 4.15.1 How to Integrate Cordova Plugins for iOS and Android
      • 4.15.2 What Happens When You Configure a Plugin
      • 4.15.3 How to Add Plugin Preferences
      • 4.15.4 What You May Need to Know About Integrating Plugins Using FARs
• Part IV Creating the MAF AMX Application Feature
  • 5 Creating MAF AMX Pages
    • 5.1 Introduction to the MAF AMX Application Feature
    • 5.2 Creating Task Flows
      • 5.2.1 How to Create a Task Flow
      • 5.2.2 What You May Need to Know About Task Flow Activities and Control Flows
      • 5.2.3 What You May Need to Know About the ViewController-task-flow.xml File
      • 5.2.4 What You May Need to Know About the MAF Task Flow Diagrammer
      • 5.2.5 How to Add and Use Task Flow Activities
      • 5.2.6 How to Define Control Flows
      • 5.2.7 What You May Need to Know About MAF Support for Back Navigation
      • 5.2.8 How to Enable Page Navigation by Dragging
      • 5.2.9 How to Specify Action Outcomes Using UI Components
      • 5.2.10 How to Create and Reference Managed Beans
      • 5.2.11 How to Specify the Page Transition Style
      • 5.2.12 What You May Need to Know About Bounded and Unbounded Task Flows
    • 5.3 Creating Views
      • 5.3.1 How to Work with MAF AMX Pages
      • 5.3.2 How to Add UI Components and Data Controls to a MAF AMX Page
      • 5.3.3 What You May Need to Know About the Server Communication
  • 6 Creating the MAF AMX User Interface
    • 6.1 Introduction to Creating the User Interface for MAF AMX Pages
    • 6.2 Designing the Page Layout
      • 6.2.1 How to Use a View Component
      • 6.2.2 How to Use a Panel Page Component
      • 6.2.3 How to Use a Panel Group Layout Component
      • 6.2.4 How to Use a Panel Form Layout Component
      • 6.2.5 How to Use a Panel Stretch Layout Component
      • 6.2.6 How to Use a Panel Label And Message Component
      • 6.2.7 How to Use a Facet Component
      • 6.2.8 How to Use a Popup Component
      • 6.2.9 How to Use a Panel Splitter Component
      • 6.2.10 How to Use a Spacer Component
      • 6.2.11 How to Use a Table Layout Component
      • 6.2.12 How to Use a Deck Component
      • 6.2.13 How to Use the Fragment Component
    • 6.3 Creating and Using UI Components
      • 6.3.1 How to Use the Input Text Component
      • 6.3.2 How to Use the Input Number Slider Component
      • 6.3.3 How to Use the Input Date Component
      • 6.3.4 How to Use the Output Text Component
      • 6.3.5 How to Use Buttons
      • 6.3.6 How to Use Links
      • 6.3.7 How to Display Images
      • 6.3.8 How to Use the Checkbox Component
      • 6.3.9 How to Use the Select Many Checkbox Component
      • 6.3.10 How to Use the Choice Component
      • 6.3.11 How to Use the Select Many Choice Component
      • 6.3.12 How to Use the Boolean Switch Component
      • 6.3.13 How to Use the Select Button Component
      • 6.3.14 How to Use the Radio Button Component
      • 6.3.15 How to Use List View and List Item Components
      • 6.3.16 How to Use Carousel Component
      • 6.3.17 How to Use the Film Strip Component
      • 6.3.18 How to Use Verbatim Component
      • 6.3.19 How to Use Output HTML Component
      • 6.3.20 How to Enable Iteration
      • 6.3.21 How to Load a Resource Bundle
      • 6.3.22 How to Use the Action Listener
      • 6.3.23 How to Use the Set Property Listener
      • 6.3.24 How to Convert Date and Time Values
      • 6.3.25 How to Convert Numerical Values
      • 6.3.26 How to Enable Drag Navigation
      • 6.3.27 How to Use the Loading Indicator
    • 6.4 Enabling Gestures
    • 6.5 Providing Data Visualization
      • 6.5.1 How to Create an Area Chart
      • 6.5.2 How to Create a Bar Chart
      • 6.5.3 How to Create a Horizontal Bar Chart
      • 6.5.4 How to Create a Bubble Chart
      • 6.5.5 How to Create a Combo Chart
      • 6.5.6 How to Create a Line Chart
      • 6.5.7 How to Create a Pie Chart
      • 6.5.8 How to Create a Scatter Chart
      • 6.5.9 How to Create a Spark Chart
      • 6.5.10 How to Create a Funnel Chart
      • 6.5.11 How to Style Chart Components
      • 6.5.12 How to Use Events with Chart Components
      • 6.5.13 How to Create a LED Gauge
      • 6.5.14 How to Create a Status Meter Gauge
      • 6.5.15 How to Create a Dial Gauge
      • 6.5.16 How to Create a Rating Gauge
      • 6.5.17 How to Define Child Elements for Chart and Gauge Components
      • 6.5.18 How to Create a Geographic Map Component
      • 6.5.19 How to Create a Thematic Map Component
      • 6.5.20 How to Use Events with Map Components
      • 6.5.21 How to Create a Treemap Component
      • 6.5.22 How to Create a Sunburst Component
      • 6.5.23 How to Create a Timeline Component
      • 6.5.24 How to Create an NBox Component
      • 6.5.25 How to Define Child Elements for Map Components, Sunburst, Treemap, Timeline, and NBox
      • 6.5.26 How to Create Databound Data Visualization Components
    • 6.6 Styling UI Components
      • 6.6.1 How to Use Component Attributes to Define Style
      • 6.6.2 What You May Need to Know About Skinning
      • 6.6.3 How to Style Data Visualization Components
    • 6.7 Localizing UI Components
    • 6.8 Understanding MAF Support for Accessibility
      • 6.8.1 How to Configure UI and Data Visualization Components for Accessibility
      • 6.8.2 What You May Need to Know About the Basic WAI-ARIA Terms
      • 6.8.3 What You May Need to Know About the Oracle Global HTML Accessibility Guidelines
    • 6.9 Validating Input
    • 6.10 Using Event Listeners
      • 6.10.1 What You May Need to Know About Constrained Type Attributes for Event Listeners
  • 7 Using Bindings and Creating Data Controls
    • 7.1 Introduction to Bindings and Data Controls
    • 7.2 About Object Scope Lifecycles
      • 7.2.1 What You May Need to Know About Object Scopes and Task Flows
    • 7.3 Creating EL Expressions
      • 7.3.1 About Data Binding EL Expressions
      • 7.3.2 How to Create an EL Expression
      • 7.3.3 What You May Need to Know About MAF Binding Properties
      • 7.3.4 How to Reference Binding Containers
      • 7.3.5 About the Categories in the Expression Builder
      • 7.3.6 About EL Events
      • 7.3.7 How to Use EL Expressions Within Managed Beans
    • 7.4 Creating and Using Managed Beans
      • 7.4.1 How to Create a Managed Bean in JDeveloper
      • 7.4.2 What Happens When You Use JDeveloper to Create a Managed Bean
    • 7.5 Exposing Business Services with Data Controls
      • 7.5.1 How to Create Data Controls
      • 7.5.2 What Happens in Your Project When You Create a Data Control
      • 7.5.3 Data Control Built-in Operations
    • 7.6 Creating Databound UI Components from the Data Controls Panel
      • 7.6.1 How to Use the Data Controls Panel
      • 7.6.2 What Happens When You Use the Data Controls Panel
    • 7.7 What Happens at Runtime: How the Binding Context Works
    • 7.8 Configuring Data Controls
      • 7.8.1 How to Edit a Data Control
      • 7.8.2 What Happens When You Edit a Data Control
      • 7.8.3 What You May Need to Know About MDS Customization of Data Controls
    • 7.9 Working with Attributes
      • 7.9.1 How to Designate an Attribute as Primary Key
      • 7.9.2 How to Define a Static Default Value for an Attribute
      • 7.9.3 How to Set UI Hints on Attributes
      • 7.9.4 What Happens When You Set UI Hints on Attributes
      • 7.9.5 How to Access UI Hints Using EL Expressions
    • 7.10 Creating and Using Bean Data Controls
      • 7.10.1 What You May Need to Know About Serialization of Bean Class Variables
    • 7.11 Using the DeviceFeatures Data Control
      • 7.11.1 How to Use the getPicture Method to Enable Taking Pictures
      • 7.11.2 How to Use the SendSMS Method to Enable Text Messaging
      • 7.11.3 How to Use the sendEmail Method to Enable Email
      • 7.11.4 How to Use the createContact Method to Enable Creating Contacts
      • 7.11.5 How to Use the findContacts Method to Enable Finding Contacts
      • 7.11.6 How to Use the updateContact Method to Enable Updating Contacts
      • 7.11.7 How to Use the removeContact Method to Enable Removing Contacts
      • 7.11.8 How to Use the startLocationMonitor Method to Enable Geolocation
      • 7.11.9 How to Use the displayFile Method to Enable Displaying Files
      • 7.11.10 Device Properties
    • 7.12 Validating Attributes
      • 7.12.1 How to Add Validation Rules
      • 7.12.2 What You May Need to Know About the Validator Metadata
    • 7.13 About Data Change Events
  • 8 Using Web Services
    • 8.1 Introduction to Using Web Services in MAF Applications
    • 8.2 Creating Web Service Data Controls
      • 8.2.1 How to Create a Web Service Data Control Using SOAP
      • 8.2.2 What You May Need to Know About Web Service Data Controls
      • 8.2.3 How to Customize SOAP Headers in Web Service Data Controls
      • 8.2.4 How to Create a Web Service Data Control Using REST
    • 8.3 Creating a New Web Service Connection
    • 8.4 Adjusting the Endpoint for a Web Service Data Control
    • 8.5 Accessing Secure Web Services
      • 8.5.1 How to Enable Access to SOAP-Based Web Services
      • 8.5.2 How to Enable Access to REST-Based Web Services
      • 8.5.3 What You May Need to Know About Credential Injection
      • 8.5.4 Limitations of Secure WSDL File Usage
    • 8.6 Invoking Web Services From Java
      • 8.6.1 How to Add and Delete Rows on Web Services Objects
      • 8.6.2 How to Use REST Web Services Adapter
      • 8.6.3 How to Enable Strict Validation of REST Responses
      • 8.6.4 What You May Need to Know About Invoking Data Control Operations
    • 8.7 Configuring the Browser Proxy Information
  • 9 Configuring End Points Used in MAF Applications
    • 9.1 Introduction to Configuring End Points
    • 9.2 Defining the Configuration Service End Point
    • 9.3 Creating the User Interface for the Configuration Service
    • 9.4 About the URL Construction
    • 9.5 Setting Up the Configuration Service on the Server
    • 9.6 Migrating the Configuration Service API
  • 10 Using the Local Database
    • 10.1 Introduction to the Local SQLite Database Usage
      • 10.1.1 Differences Between SQLite and Other Relational Databases
    • 10.2 Using the Local SQLite Database
      • 10.2.1 How to Connect to the Database
      • 10.2.2 How to Use SQL Script to Initialize the Database
      • 10.2.3 How to Initialize the Database on a Desktop
      • 10.2.4 What You May Need to Know About Commit Handling
      • 10.2.5 Limitations of the MAF's SQLite JDBC Driver
      • 10.2.6 How to Use the VACUUM Command
      • 10.2.7 How to Encrypt and Decrypt the Database
      • 10.2.8 What You May Need to Know About the StockTracker Sample Application
  • 11 Customizing MAF AMX Application Feature Artifacts
    • 11.1 Introduction to Customizing MAF AMX Pages and Artifacts
    • 11.2 Customizing MAF AMX Pages and Artifacts
    • 11.3 What You May Need to Know About Customization Classes
      • 11.3.1 What You May Need to Know About the Static Customization Content
    • 11.4 Configuring Customization Layers
      • 11.4.1 How to Configure Layer Values Globally
      • 11.4.2 How to Configure Workspace-Level Layer Values
    • 11.5 Consuming Customization Classes
      • 11.5.1 How to Make Customization Classes Available to JDeveloper at Design Time
    • 11.6 Configuring the adf-config.xml File
    • 11.7 What You May Need to Know About the Customization Developer Role
      • 11.7.1 How to Switch to the Customization Developer Role in JDeveloper
      • 11.7.2 What You May Need to Know About the Tip Layer
  • 12 Creating Custom MAF AMX UI Components
    • 12.1 Introduction to Creating Custom UI Components
    • 12.2 Using MAF APIs to Create Custom Components
      • 12.2.1 How to Use Static APIs
      • 12.2.2 How to Use AmxEvent Classes
      • 12.2.3 How to Use the TypeHandler
      • 12.2.4 How to Use the AmxNode
      • 12.2.5 How to Use the AmxTag
      • 12.2.6 How to Use the VisitContext
      • 12.2.7 How to Use the AmxAttributeChange
      • 12.2.8 How to Use the AmxDescendentChanges
      • 12.2.9 How to Use the AmxCollectionChange
      • 12.2.10 How to Use the AmxNodeChangeResult
      • 12.2.11 How to Use the AmxNodeStates
      • 12.2.12 How to Use the AmxNodeUpdateArguments
    • 12.3 Creating Custom Components
• Part V Advanced Topics
  • 13 Implementing Application Feature Content Using Remote URLs
    • 13.1 Overview of Remote URL Applications
      • 13.1.1 Enabling Remote Applications to Access Device Services through Whitelists
      • 13.1.2 Enabling Remote URL Implementations to Access Apache Cordova
      • 13.1.3 How Whitelisted Domains Access Device Capabilities
      • 13.1.4 How to Create a Whitelist (or Restrict a Domain)
      • 13.1.5 What Happens When You Add Domains to a Whitelist
      • 13.1.6 What You May Need to Know About Remote URLs
    • 13.2 Creating Whitelists for Application Components
    • 13.3 Enabling the Browser Navigation Bar on Remote URL Pages
      • 13.3.1 How to Add the Navigation Bar to a Remote URL Application Feature
      • 13.3.2 What Happens When You Enable the Browser Navigation Buttons for a Remote URL Application Feature
    • 13.4 About Authoring Remote Content
  • 14 Enabling User Preferences
    • 14.1 Creating User Preference Pages for a Mobile Application
      • 14.1.1 How to Create Mobile Application-Level Preferences Pages
      • 14.1.2 What Happens When You Create an Application-Level Preference Page
    • 14.2 Creating User Preference Pages for Application Features
    • 14.3 Using EL Expressions to Retrieve Stored Values for User Preference Pages
      • 14.3.1 What You May Need to Know About preferenceScope
      • 14.3.2 Reading Preference Values in iOS Native Views
    • 14.4 Platform-Dependent Display Differences
  • 15 Setting Constraints on Application Features
    • 15.1 Introduction to Constraints
      • 15.1.1 Using Constraints to Show or Hide an Application Feature
      • 15.1.2 Using Constraints to Deliver Specific Content Types
    • 15.2 Defining Constraints for Application Features
      • 15.2.1 How to Define the Constraints for an Application Feature
      • 15.2.2 What Happens When You Define a Constraint
      • 15.2.3 About the property Attribute
      • 15.2.4 About User Constraints and Access Control
      • 15.2.5 About Hardware-Related Constraints
      • 15.2.6 Creating Dynamic Constraints on Application Features and Content
  • 16 Accessing Data on Oracle Cloud
    • 16.1 Enabling Mobile Applications to Access Data Hosted on Oracle Cloud
      • 16.1.1 How to Authenticate Against Oracle Cloud
      • 16.1.2 How to Create a Web Service Data Control to Access Oracle Java Cloud
      • 16.1.3 What Happens When You Deploy a Mobile Application that Accesses Oracle Java Cloud Service
  • 17 Enabling Push Notifications
    • 17.1 Introduction to Push Notifications
      • 17.1.1 How Push Notifications Work
      • 17.1.2 How Mobile Applications Display Notifications Depending on Application State
    • 17.2 Enabling Push Notifications for a Mobile Application
    • 17.3 About the Push Notification Payload
  • 18 Handling Errors in MAF Applications
    • 18.1 About Error Handling for MAF
    • 18.2 Displaying Error Messages and Stopping Background Threads
      • 18.2.1 How Applications Display Error Message for Background Thread Exceptions
    • 18.3 Localizing Error Messages
• Part VI Completing the Mobile Application
  • 19 Deploying Mobile Applications
    • 19.1 Introduction to Deployment of Mobile Applications
      • 19.1.1 MAF Deployment Options
    • 19.2 Working with Deployment Profiles
      • 19.2.1 How to Create a Deployment Profile
      • 19.2.2 What Happens When You Create a Deployment Profile
      • 19.2.3 How to Create an Android Deployment Profile
      • 19.2.4 How to Create an iOS Deployment Profile
    • 19.3 Deploying an Android Application
      • 19.3.1 How to Deploy an Android Application to an Android Emulator
      • 19.3.2 How to Deploy an Application to an Android-Powered Device
      • 19.3.3 How to Publish an Android Application
      • 19.3.4 What Happens in JDeveloper When You Create an .apk File
      • 19.3.5 Selecting the Most Recently Used Deployment Profiles
      • 19.3.6 What You May Need to Know About Using the Android Debug Bridge
    • 19.4 Deploying an iOS Application
      • 19.4.1 How to Deploy an iOS Application to an iOS Simulator
      • 19.4.2 How to Deploy an Application to an iOS-Powered Device
      • 19.4.3 What Happens When You Deploy an Application to an iOS Device
      • 19.4.4 What You May Need to Know About Deploying an Application to an iOS-Powered Device
      • 19.4.5 How to Distribute an iOS Application to the App Store
    • 19.5 Deploying Feature Archive Files (FARs)
      • 19.5.1 How to Create a Deployment Profile for a Feature Archive
      • 19.5.2 How to Deploy the Feature Archive Deployment Profile
      • 19.5.3 What Happens When You Deploy a Feature Archive File Deployment Profile
    • 19.6 Creating a Mobile Application Archive File
      • 19.6.1 How to Create a Mobile Application Archive File
    • 19.7 Creating Unsigned Deployment Packages
      • 19.7.1 How to Create an Unsigned Application
      • 19.7.2 What Happens When You Import a MAF Application Archive File
    • 19.8 Deploying Mobile Applications from the Command Line
      • 19.8.1 Using OJDeploy to Deploy Mobile Applications
  • 20 Understanding Secure Mobile Development Practices
    • 20.1 Weak Server-Side Controls
    • 20.2 Insecure Data Storage on the Device
      • 20.2.1 Encrypting the SQLite Database
      • 20.2.2 Securing the Device's Local Data Stores
      • 20.2.3 About Security and Application Logs
    • 20.3 Insufficient Transport Layer Protection
    • 20.4 Side-Channel Data Leakage
    • 20.5 Poor Authorization and Authentication
    • 20.6 Broken Cryptography
    • 20.7 Client-Side Injection From Cross-Site Scripting
      • 20.7.1 Protecting Applications Against XSS Through Whitelists
      • 20.7.2 Protecting MAF Applications from Injection Attacks Using Device Access Permissions
      • 20.7.3 About Injection Attack Risks from Custom HTML Components
      • 20.7.4 About SQL Injections and XML Injections
    • 20.8 Security Decisions From Untrusted Inputs
    • 20.9 Improper Session Handling
    • 20.10 Lack of Binary Protections Resulting in Sensitive Information Disclosure
  • 21 Securing Mobile Applications
    • 21.1 About Mobile Application Framework Security
      • 21.1.1 About Constraint-Dictated Access Control
    • 21.2 About the User Login Process
    • 21.3 Overview of the Authentication Process for Mobile Applications
    • 21.4 Configuring MAF Connections
      • 21.4.1 How to Create a MAF Login Connection
      • 21.4.2 How to Configure Basic Authentication
      • 21.4.3 How to Configure Authentication Using Oracle Mobile and Social Identity Management
      • 21.4.4 How to Configure OAuth Authentication
      • 21.4.5 How to Configure Web SSO Authentication
      • 21.4.6 How to Configure a Placeholder Connection for MAF Application Login
      • 21.4.7 How to Update Connection Attributes of a Named Connection at Runtime
      • 21.4.8 How to Store Login Credentials
      • 21.4.9 What You May Need to Know About Multiple Identities for Local and Hybrid Login Connections
      • 21.4.10 What You May Need to Know About Migrating a MAF Application and Authentication Modes
      • 21.4.11 What Happens When You Enable Cookie Injection into REST Web Service Calls
      • 21.4.12 What You May Need to Know About Adding Cookies to REST Web Service Calls
      • 21.4.13 What Happens at Runtime: When MAF Calls a REST Web Service
      • 21.4.14 What You May Need to Know About Injecting Basic Authentication Headers
      • 21.4.15 What You May Need to Know about Web Service Security
      • 21.4.16 How to Configure Access Control
      • 21.4.17 What You May Need to Know About the Access Control Service
      • 21.4.18 How to Alter the Application Loading Sequence
      • 21.4.19 What Happens When You Define a Multi-Tenant Connection
      • 21.4.20 What Happens When You Create a Connection for a Mobile Application
    • 21.5 Configuring Security for Mobile Applications
      • 21.5.1 How to Enable Application Features to Require Authentication
      • 21.5.2 How to Designate the Login Page
      • 21.5.3 What You May Need to Know About Login Pages
      • 21.5.4 What You May Need to Know About Login Page Elements
      • 21.5.5 What Happens in JDeveloper When You Configure Security for Application Features
    • 21.6 Allowing Access to Device Capabilities
      • 21.6.1 How to Enable Access to Device Capabilities
      • 21.6.2 What Happens When You Define Device Capabilities
      • 21.6.3 What You May Need to Know About Device Capability Permissions
      • 21.6.4 What You May Need to Know About Device Capabilities During Deployment
    • 21.7 Enabling Users to Log Out from Application Features
    • 21.8 Supporting SSL
  • 22 Testing and Debugging MAF Applications
    • 22.1 Introduction to Testing and Debugging MAF Applications
    • 22.2 Testing MAF Applications
      • 22.2.1 How to Perform Accessibility Testing on iOS-Powered Devices
    • 22.3 Debugging MAF Applications
      • 22.3.1 What You May Need to Know About the Debugging Configuration
      • 22.3.2 How to Debug on iOS Platform
      • 22.3.3 How to Debug on Android Platform
      • 22.3.4 How to Debug the MAF AMX Content
      • 22.3.5 How to Enable Debugging of Java Code and JavaScript
      • 22.3.6 How to Configure the Debug Mode
    • 22.4 Using and Configuring Logging
      • 22.4.1 How to Configure Logging Using the Properties File
      • 22.4.2 How to Use JavaScript Logging
      • 22.4.3 How to Use Embedded Logging
      • 22.4.4 How to Use Xcode for Debugging and Logging on iOS Platform
      • 22.4.5 How to Access the Application Log
• Part VII Appendixes
  • A Troubleshooting
    • A.1 Problems with Input Components on iOS Simulators
    • A.2 Code Signing Issues Prevent Deployment
    • A.3 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 getFeatures
      • B.2.6 gotoFeature
      • B.2.7 getFeatureByName
      • B.2.8 getFeatureById
      • B.2.9 resetFeature
      • B.2.10 gotoSpringboard
      • B.2.11 hideNavigationBar
      • B.2.12 showNavigationBar
      • B.2.13 invokeMethod
      • B.2.14 invokeContainerJavaScriptFunction
      • B.2.15 Application Icon Badging
    • B.3 Accessing Files Using the getDirectoryPathRoot Method
      • B.3.1 Accessing Platform-Independent Download Locations
  • C Converting Preferences for Deployment
    • C.1 Naming Patterns for Preferences
    • C.2 Converting Preferences for Android
      • C.2.1 Preferences.xml
      • C.2.2 arrays.xml
      • C.2.3 Strings.xml
    • C.3 Converting Preferences for iOS
  • D MAF Application Usage
    • D.1 Introduction to MAF Application Usage
    • D.2 Installing the MAF Application on a Mobile Device
      • D.2.1 How to Install MAF Applications on iOS-Powered Devices
      • D.2.2 How to Install MAF Applications on Android-Powered Devices
      • D.2.3 How to Uninstall a MAF Application
    • D.3 Navigating Between Application Features
      • D.3.1 How to Navigate Between Application Features on iOS-Powered Devices
      • D.3.2 How to Navigate on Android-Powered Devices
    • D.4 Setting Preferences
      • D.4.1 How to Set Preferences on iOS-Powered Devices
      • D.4.2 How to Set Preferences on Android-Powered Devices
    • D.5 Viewing Log Files
    • D.6 Limitations to the Application Usage
      • D.6.1 List View Component Limitations
      • D.6.2 Data Visualization Components Limitations
      • D.6.3 Device Back Button Limitations on Android Platform
      • D.6.4 Accessibility Support Limitations
  • E Parsing XML
    • E.1 Parsing XML Using kXML Library
  • F Mobile Application Framework Sample Applications
    • F.1 Overview of the MAF Sample Applications