Contents

Title and Copyright Information

Preface

• Audience
• Documentation Accessibility
• Related Documents
• Conventions

What's New in This Guide in Release 11.1.2.4.0

Part I Understanding ADF Mobile

1 Introduction to ADF Mobile

• 1.1 Introduction to ADF Mobile
• 1.2 ADF Mobile Runtime Architecture

2 Introduction to ADF Mobile Application Development

• 2.1 Introduction to ADF Mobile Application Development
• 2.2 Infrastructure Requirements
• 2.3 Supported Platforms, Devices, and Databases
• 2.4 ADF Mobile Application Architecture
• 2.5 Typical Development Stages
• 2.6 The Application Lifecycle
• 2.7 Sample Applications
• 2.8 ADF Mobile AMX Application Feature
• 2.9 Comparison of ADF Mobile and Server-Based Oracle ADF

Part II Getting Started

3 Setting Up the ADF Mobile Environment

• 3.1 Introduction to the ADF Mobile Environment
• 3.2 Prerequisites for Developing ADF Mobile Applications
  • 3.2.1 What You Need to Create an Application
  • 3.2.2 What You Need to Deploy an Application to a Development Environment
• 3.3 Setting Up JDeveloper
  • 3.3.1 How to Configure the Development Environment for Platforms and Form Factors
    • 3.3.1.1 Configuring the Environment for Form Factors
    • 3.3.1.2 Configuring the Environment for Target Platforms
• 3.4 Setting Up Development Tools for iOS Platform
  • 3.4.1 How to Install Xcode
  • 3.4.2 How to Install iOS SDK
  • 3.4.3 How to Set Up an iPhone or iPad
  • 3.4.4 How to Set Up an iPhone or iPad Simulator
• 3.5 Setting Up Development Tools for Android Platform
  • 3.5.1 How to Install the Android SDK
  • 3.5.2 How to Set Up an Android-Powered Device
  • 3.5.3 How to Set Up an Android Emulator
    • 3.5.3.1 Saving the Emulator State
    • 3.5.3.2 Creating, Saving, and Reusing the SD Card
    • 3.5.3.3 Configuring the Network
    • 3.5.3.4 Configuring the Network Proxy
• 3.6 Testing the Environment Setup

4 Getting Started with ADF Mobile Application Development

• 4.1 Introduction to Declarative Development for ADF Mobile Applications
• 4.2 Creating an Application Workspace
  • 4.2.1 How to Create a Workspace for an ADF Mobile Application
  • 4.2.2 What Happens When You Create an ADF Mobile Application
    • 4.2.2.1 About the Application Controller Project-Level Resources
    • 4.2.2.2 About the View Controller Project Resources
    • 4.2.2.3 About Automatically Generated Deployment Profiles
  • 4.2.3 What You May Need to Know About Editing ADF Mobile Applications and Application Features
  • 4.2.4 Creating an Application Workspace for an ADF Mobile AMX Application
    • 4.2.4.1 How to Create an ADF Mobile AMX Page
    • 4.2.4.2 How to Create ADF Mobile Task Flows
    • 4.2.4.3 What Happens When You Create ADF Mobile AMX Pages and Task Flows

Part III Developing ADF Mobile Applications

5 Defining an ADF Mobile Application

• 5.1 Introduction to Defining ADF Mobile Applications
  • 5.1.1 Using the Overview Editor for adfmf-applications.xml
• 5.2 About the Mobile Application Configuration File
• 5.3 Setting the Basic Information for an ADF Mobile Application
  • 5.3.1 How to Set the ID and Display Behavior for a Mobile Application
• 5.4 Invoking an ADF Mobile Application Using a Custom URL Scheme
• 5.5 Configuring the Springboard and Navigation Bar Behavior
  • 5.5.1 How to Configure Application Navigation
  • 5.5.2 What Happens When You Configure the Navigation Options
  • 5.5.3 What Happens When You Set the Animation for the Springboard
  • 5.5.4 What You May Need to Know About Custom Springboard Application Features with HTML Content
  • 5.5.5 What You May Need to Know About Custom Springboard Application Features with ADF Mobile AMX Content
• 5.6 Configuring the Application Features within a Mobile Application
  • 5.6.1 How to Designate the Content for a Mobile Application
  • 5.6.2 What You May Need to Know About Feature Reference IDs and Feature IDs
• 5.7 About Lifecycle Event Listeners
  • 5.7.1 Events in ADF Mobile Applications
  • 5.7.2 Timing for Mobile Application Events
  • 5.7.3 Using the activate and deactivate Methods to Save Application State
  • 5.7.4 About Application Feature Lifecycle Listener Classes
  • 5.7.5 Timing for Activate and Deactivate Events in the Application Feature Application Lifecycle
• 5.8 About the Mobile Feature Application Configuration File
• 5.9 Setting the Basic Configuration for the Application Feature
  • 5.9.1 How to Define the Basic Information for the Application Feature
• 5.10 Defining the Content Types for an Application Feature
  • 5.10.1 How to Define the Application Content
  • 5.10.2 What You May Need to Know About Selecting External Resources
• 5.11 Working with Resource Bundles
  • 5.11.1 How to Create Project-Level Resource Bundles
  • 5.11.2 What Happens When You Add a Resource Bundle
    • 5.11.2.1 What Happens When You Create Project-Level Resource Bundles for ADF Mobile AMX Components
  • 5.11.3 What You May Need to Know About Localizing Image Files
  • 5.11.4 What You May Need to Know About XLIFF Files for iOS Applications
  • 5.11.5 Internationalization for iOS Applications
• 5.12 Skinning ADF Mobile Applications
  • 5.12.1 About the adfmf-config.xml File
  • 5.12.2 What You May Need to Know About ADF Mobile Styles
  • 5.12.3 About the adfmf-skins.xml File
    • 5.12.3.1 About the ADF Mobile Skin Identifiers
  • 5.12.4 How to Change the Default Skin Family
  • 5.12.5 How to Version ADF Mobile Skins
  • 5.12.6 What Happens When You Version an ADF Mobile Skin
  • 5.12.7 Overriding the Default Skin Styles
    • 5.12.7.1 How to Apply New Style Classes to an Application Feature
    • 5.12.7.2 What Happens When You Apply a Skin to a Feature Application
  • 5.12.8 What You May Need to Know About Skinning
• 5.13 Working with Feature Archive Files
  • 5.13.1 How to Use FAR Content in an ADF Mobile Application
  • 5.13.2 What Happens When You Add a Feature Archive JAR to a Classpath
  • 5.13.3 What You May Need to Know About Enabling the Reuse of Feature Archive Resources

Part IV Creating the ADF Mobile AMX Application Feature

6 Creating ADF Mobile AMX Pages

• 6.1 Introduction to the ADF Mobile AMX Application Feature
• 6.2 Creating Task Flows
  • 6.2.1 How to Create a Task Flow
  • 6.2.2 What You May Need to Know About Supported Activities and Control Flows
  • 6.2.3 What You May Need to Know About the ViewController-task-flow.xml File
  • 6.2.4 What You May Need to Know About the ADF Mobile Task Flow Diagrammer
  • 6.2.5 How to Add ADF Mobile Activities
  • 6.2.6 How to Add View Activities
  • 6.2.7 How to Add a Wildcard Control Flow Rule
  • 6.2.8 How to Enable Page Navigation Using Control Flow Case
  • 6.2.9 How to Specify Action Outcomes Using UI Components
  • 6.2.10 How to Create and Reference Managed Beans
  • 6.2.11 How to Specify the Page Transition Style
• 6.3 Creating Views
  • 6.3.1 How to Work with ADF Mobile AMX Pages
    • 6.3.1.1 Interpreting the ADF Mobile AMX Page Structure
    • 6.3.1.2 Creating ADF Mobile AMX Pages
    • 6.3.1.3 What Happens When You Create an ADF Mobile AMX Page
    • 6.3.1.4 Using UI Editors
    • 6.3.1.5 Accessing the Page Definition
  • 6.3.2 How to Add UI Components and Data Controls to an ADF Mobile AMX Page
    • 6.3.2.1 Adding UI Components
    • 6.3.2.2 Using the Preview
    • 6.3.2.3 Configuring UI Components
    • 6.3.2.4 Adding Data Controls to the View
    • 6.3.2.5 What You May Need to Know About Element Identifiers and Their Audit

7 Creating the ADF Mobile AMX User Interface

• 7.1 Introduction to Creating the User Interface for ADF Mobile AMX Pages
• 7.2 Designing the Page Layout
  • 7.2.1 How to Use a View Component
  • 7.2.2 How to Use a Panel Page Component
  • 7.2.3 How to Use a Panel Group Layout Component
  • 7.2.4 How to Use a Panel Form Layout Component
  • 7.2.5 How to Use a Panel Label And Message Component
  • 7.2.6 How to Use a Facet Component
  • 7.2.7 How to Use List View and List Item Components
    • 7.2.7.1 Configuring List View Paging
    • 7.2.7.2 Rearranging List View Items
    • 7.2.7.3 Configuring Layout Using Styles
    • 7.2.7.4 What You May Need to Know About Using a Static List View
  • 7.2.8 How to Use a Popup Component
  • 7.2.9 How to Use a Panel Splitter Component
  • 7.2.10 How to Use a Table Layout Component
• 7.3 Creating and Using UI Components
  • 7.3.1 How to Use the Input Text Component
  • 7.3.2 How to Use the Input Number Slider Component
  • 7.3.3 How to Use the Input Date Component
  • 7.3.4 How to Use the Output Text Component
  • 7.3.5 How to Use Buttons
    • 7.3.5.1 Displaying Default Style Buttons
    • 7.3.5.2 Displaying Back Style Buttons
    • 7.3.5.3 Displaying Highlight Style Buttons
    • 7.3.5.4 Displaying Alert Style Buttons
    • 7.3.5.5 Using Buttons Within the Application
    • 7.3.5.6 Enabling the Back Button Navigation
    • 7.3.5.7 What You May Need to Know About the Order of Processing Operations and Attributes
  • 7.3.6 How to Use Links
  • 7.3.7 How to Display Images
  • 7.3.8 How to Use the Checkbox Component
    • 7.3.8.1 Support for Checkbox Components on iOS Platform
    • 7.3.8.2 Support for Checkbox Components on Android Platform
  • 7.3.9 How to Use the Select Many Checkbox Component
    • 7.3.9.1 What You May Need to Know About the User Interaction with Select Many Checkbox Component
  • 7.3.10 How to Use the Choice Component
    • 7.3.10.1 What You May Need to Know About the User Interaction with Choice Component on iOS Platform
    • 7.3.10.2 What You May Need to Know About the User Interaction with Choice Component on Android Platform
    • 7.3.10.3 What You May Need to Know About Differences Between Select Items and Select Item Components
  • 7.3.11 How to Use the Select Many Choice Component
  • 7.3.12 How to Use the Boolean Switch Component
    • 7.3.12.1 Support for Boolean Switch Components on iOS Platform
    • 7.3.12.2 Support for Boolean Switch Components on Android Platform
  • 7.3.13 How to Use the Select Button Component
  • 7.3.14 How to Use the Radio Button Component
  • 7.3.15 How to Use Carousel Component
  • 7.3.16 How to Use Verbatim Component
    • 7.3.16.1 What You May Need to Know About Using JavaScript and AJAX with Verbatim Component
  • 7.3.17 How to Enable Iteration
  • 7.3.18 How to Load a Resource Bundle
  • 7.3.19 How to Use the Action Listener
  • 7.3.20 How to Use the Set Property Listener
  • 7.3.21 How to Convert Date and Time Values
    • 7.3.21.1 What You May Need to Know About Date and Time Patterns
  • 7.3.22 How to Convert Numerical Values
• 7.4 Enabling Gestures
• 7.5 Providing Data Visualization
  • 7.5.1 How to Create an Area Chart
  • 7.5.2 How to Create a Bar Chart
  • 7.5.3 How to Create a Horizontal Bar Chart
  • 7.5.4 How to Create a Bubble Chart
  • 7.5.5 How to Create a Combo Chart
  • 7.5.6 How to Create a Line Chart
  • 7.5.7 How to Create a Pie Chart
  • 7.5.8 How to Create a Scatter Chart
  • 7.5.9 How to Create a Spark Chart
  • 7.5.10 How to Create a LED Gauge
  • 7.5.11 How to Create a Status Meter Gauge
  • 7.5.12 How to Create a Dial Gauge
  • 7.5.13 How to Create a Rating Gauge
    • 7.5.13.1 Applying Custom Styling to the Rating Gauge Component
  • 7.5.14 How to Define Child Elements for Chart and Gauge Components
    • 7.5.14.1 Defining Chart Data Item
    • 7.5.14.2 Defining Legend
    • 7.5.14.3 Defining X Axis, YAxis, and Y2Axis
    • 7.5.14.4 Defining Pie Data Item
    • 7.5.14.5 Defining Spark Data Item
    • 7.5.14.6 Defining Reference Object
    • 7.5.14.7 Defining Threshold
  • 7.5.15 How to Create a Geographic Map Component
    • 7.5.15.1 Configuring Geographic Map Components With the Map Provider Information
  • 7.5.16 How to Create a Thematic Map Component
    • 7.5.16.1 Defining Custom Markers
    • 7.5.16.2 Defining Isolated Areas
    • 7.5.16.3 Enabling Initial Zooming
    • 7.5.16.4 Defining a Custom Base Map
    • 7.5.16.5 Applying Custom Styling to the Thematic Map Component
  • 7.5.17 How to Create Databound Data Visualization Components
• 7.6 Styling UI Components
  • 7.6.1 How to Use Component Attributes to Define Style
  • 7.6.2 What You May Need to Know About Skinning
  • 7.6.3 How to Style Data Visualization Components
• 7.7 Localizing UI Components
• 7.8 Understanding ADF Mobile Support for Accessibility
  • 7.8.1 How to Configure UI and DVT Components for Accessibility
  • 7.8.2 What You May Need to Know About the Basic WAI-ARIA Terms
  • 7.8.3 What You May Need to Know About the Oracle Global HTML Accessibility Guidelines
• 7.9 Validating Input
• 7.10 Using Event Listeners
  • 7.10.1 What You May Need to Know About Constrained Type Attributes for Event Listeners

8 Using Bindings and Creating Data Controls

• 8.1 Introduction to Binding Layer Components and Data Controls
• 8.2 Understanding EL Support
  • 8.2.1 ADF Mobile AMX EL Implementation
    • 8.2.1.1 Immediate and Deferred Evaluation
    • 8.2.1.2 Enumerated Types
  • 8.2.2 How to Reference Binding Containers
  • 8.2.3 EL Events
    • 8.2.3.1 Configuration Properties
  • 8.2.4 EL Expression Builder
    • 8.2.4.1 ADF Bindings
    • 8.2.4.2 ADF Managed Beans
    • 8.2.4.3 ADF Mobile Objects
    • 8.2.4.4 Method Expression Builder
    • 8.2.4.5 Non EL-Properties
• 8.3 Understanding Binding Layer Components
  • 8.3.1 Sequencing
  • 8.3.2 Validation of EL Bindings for ADF Mobile AMX Pages
• 8.4 Creating and Using the Bean Data Control
  • 8.4.1 What You May Need to Know About Serialization of Bean Class Variables
• 8.5 Using the DeviceFeatures Data Control
  • 8.5.1 How to Use the getPicture Method
  • 8.5.2 How to Use the SendSMS Method
  • 8.5.3 How to Use the sendEmail Method
  • 8.5.4 How to Use the createContact Method
  • 8.5.5 How to Use the findContacts Method
  • 8.5.6 How to Use the updateContact Method
  • 8.5.7 How to Use the removeContact Method
  • 8.5.8 How to Use the startLocationMonitor Method
  • 8.5.9 How to Use the displayFile Method
  • 8.5.10 Device Properties
• 8.6 Performing Validation
  • 8.6.1 How to Add Validation Rules
  • 8.6.2 What You May Need to Know About the Validator Metadata
• 8.7 Data Change Events

9 Using Web Services

• 9.1 Introduction to Using Web Services
• 9.2 Creating a Web Service Data Control
  • 9.2.1 How to Create a Web Service Data Control Using SOAP
  • 9.2.2 How to Customize SOAP Headers in Web Service Data Controls
  • 9.2.3 How to Create a Web Service Data Control Using REST
• 9.3 Creating a New Web Service Connection
• 9.4 Adjusting the Endpoint for a Web Service Data Control
• 9.5 Accessing Secure Web Services
  • 9.5.1 How to Enable Access to SOAP-Based Web Services
  • 9.5.2 How to Enable Access to REST-Based Web Services
  • 9.5.3 What You May Need to Know About Credential Injection
  • 9.5.4 Limitations of Secure WSDL File Usage
• 9.6 Invoking Web Services From Java
  • 9.6.1 How to Add and Delete Rows on Web Services Objects
  • 9.6.2 How to Use REST Web Services Adapter
    • 9.6.2.1 Support for Non-Text Responses
  • 9.6.3 How to Enable Strict Validation of REST Responses
  • 9.6.4 What You May Need to Know About Invoking Data Control Operations

10 Administering Web Services

• 10.1 Introduction to Administering Web Services
• 10.2 Using the Configuration Service
  • 10.2.1 How to Set Up the Configuration Service on the Server
  • 10.2.2 What You May Need to Know About the URL Construction

11 Using the Local Database

• 11.1 Introduction to the Local SQLite Database Usage
  • 11.1.1 Differences Between SQLite and Other Relational Databases
    • 11.1.1.1 Concurrency
    • 11.1.1.2 SQL Support and Interpretation
    • 11.1.1.3 Data Types
    • 11.1.1.4 Foreign Keys
    • 11.1.1.5 Database Transactions
    • 11.1.1.6 Authentication
• 11.2 Using the Local SQLite Database
  • 11.2.1 How to Connect to the Database
  • 11.2.2 How to Use SQL Script to Initialize the Database
  • 11.2.3 How to Initialize the Database on a Desktop
  • 11.2.4 What You May Need to Know About Commit Handling
  • 11.2.5 Limitations of the ADF Mobile's SQLite JDBC Driver
  • 11.2.6 How to Use the VACUUM Command
  • 11.2.7 How to Encrypt and Decrypt the Database

Part V Advanced Topics

12 Implementing Application Features as Remote URLs

• 12.1 Overview of Remote URL Applications
• 12.2 Overview of Enabling Remote URL Implementations to Access Apache Cordova
• 12.3 Enabling Remote Application to Access Device Services through Whitelists
  • 12.3.1 How to Control Access to Device Capabilities
  • 12.3.2 How to Create a Whitelist
  • 12.3.3 What Happens When You Add Domains to a Whitelist
  • 12.3.4 What You May Need to Know About Remote URLs
• 12.4 Creating Whitelists for Application Components
• 12.5 Enabling the Browser Navigation Bar on Remote URL Pages
  • 12.5.1 How to Add the Navigation Bar to a Remote URL Application Feature
  • 12.5.2 What Happens When You Enable the Browser Navigation Buttons for a Remote URL Application Feature

13 Enabling User Preferences

• 13.1 Creating User Preference Pages for an ADF Mobile Application
  • 13.1.1 How to Create Mobile Application-Level Preferences Pages
    • 13.1.1.1 How to Create a New User Preference Page
    • 13.1.1.2 What Happens When You Add a Preference Page
    • 13.1.1.3 How to Create User Preference Lists
    • 13.1.1.4 What Happens When You Create a Preference List
    • 13.1.1.5 How to Create a Boolean Preference List
    • 13.1.1.6 What Happens When You Add a Boolean Preference
    • 13.1.1.7 How to Add a Text Preference
    • 13.1.1.8 What Happens When You Define a Text Preference
  • 13.1.2 What Happens When You Create an Application-Level Preference Page
• 13.2 Creating User Preference Pages for Application Features
• 13.3 Using EL Expressions to Retrieve Stored Values for User Preference Pages
  • 13.3.1 What You May Need to Know About preferenceScope
  • 13.3.2 Reading Preference Values in iOS Native Views
• 13.4 Platform-Dependent Display Differences
• 13.5 Creating a Preference for the Configuration Service URL
  • 13.5.1 How to Seed the Default Configuration URL
  • 13.5.2 What Happens When You Seed a URL Using a Text Preference

14 Setting Constraints on Application Features

• 14.1 Introduction to Constraints
  • 14.1.1 Using Constraints to Show or Hide an Application Feature
  • 14.1.2 Using Constraints to Deliver Specific Content Types
• 14.2 Defining Constraints for Application Features
  • 14.2.1 How to Define the Constraints for an Application Feature
  • 14.2.2 What Happens When You Define a Constraint
  • 14.2.3 About the property Attribute
  • 14.2.4 About User Constraints and Access Control
  • 14.2.5 About Hardware-Related Constraints

15 Accessing Data on Oracle Cloud

• 15.1 Enabling ADF Mobile Applications to Access Data Hosted on Oracle Cloud
  • 15.1.1 How to Authenticate Against Oracle Cloud
  • 15.1.2 How to Create a Web Service Data Control to Access Oracle Java Cloud
    • 15.1.2.1 Configuring the Policy for SOAP-Based Web Services
  • 15.1.3 What Happens When You Deploy an ADF Mobile Application that Accesses Oracle Java Cloud Service

16 Push Notifications

• 16.1 Introduction to Push Notifications
  • 16.1.1 How Push Notifications Work
  • 16.1.2 How ADF Mobile Applications Display Notifications Depending on Application State
• 16.2 Enabling Push Notifications for an ADF Mobile Application
• 16.3 About the Push Notification Payload

Part VI Completing Your Application

17 Deploying ADF Mobile Applications

• 17.1 Introduction to Deployment of Mobile Applications
  • 17.1.1 How ADF Mobile Deploys Applications
    • 17.1.1.1 Deployment of Project Libraries
    • 17.1.1.2 Deployment of the JVM 1.4 Libraries
• 17.2 Working with Deployment Profiles
  • 17.2.1 How to Create a Deployment Profile
  • 17.2.2 What Happens When You Create a Deployment Profile
  • 17.2.3 How to Create an Android Deployment Profile
    • 17.2.3.1 Setting the Options for the Application Details
    • 17.2.3.2 Setting Deployment Options
    • 17.2.3.3 Defining the Android Signing Options
    • 17.2.3.4 How to Add a Custom Image to an Android Application
    • 17.2.3.5 What Happens When JDeveloper Deploys Images for Android Applications
    • 17.2.3.6 What Happens in JDeveloper When You Deploy an Application to an Android Emulator or Android-Powered Device
  • 17.2.4 How to Create an iOS Deployment Profile
    • 17.2.4.1 Defining the iOS Build Options
    • 17.2.4.2 Setting the Device Signing Options
    • 17.2.4.3 Adding a Custom Image to an iOS Application
    • 17.2.4.4 What You May Need to Know About iTunes Artwork
    • 17.2.4.5 How to Restrict the Display to a Specific Device Orientation
    • 17.2.4.6 What Happens When You Deselect Device Orientations
• 17.3 Deploying an Android Application
  • 17.3.1 How to Deploy an Android Application to an Android Emulator
  • 17.3.2 How to Deploy an Application to an Android-Powered Device
  • 17.3.3 How to Publish an Android Application
  • 17.3.4 What Happens in JDeveloper When You Create an .apk File
  • 17.3.5 Selecting the Most Recently Used Deployment Profiles
  • 17.3.6 What You May Need to Know About Using the Android Debug Bridge
• 17.4 Deploying an iOS Application
  • 17.4.1 How to Deploy an iOS Application to an iOS Simulator
  • 17.4.2 How to Deploy an Application to an iOS-Powered Device
  • 17.4.3 What Happens When You Deploy an Application to an iOS Device
  • 17.4.4 What You May Need to Know About Deploying an Application to an iOS-Powered Device
    • 17.4.4.1 Creating iOS Development Certificates
    • 17.4.4.2 Registering an Apple Device for Testing and Debugging
    • 17.4.4.3 Registering an Application ID
  • 17.4.5 How to Distribute an iOS Application to the App Store
    • 17.4.5.1 What Happens in JDeveloper When You Deploy an Application to an iOS Simulator or iOS-Powered Device
• 17.5 Deploying Feature Archive Files (FARs)
  • 17.5.1 How to Create a Deployment Profile for a Feature Archive
  • 17.5.2 How to Deploy the Feature Archive Deployment Profile
  • 17.5.3 What Happens When You Deploy a Feature Archive File Deployment Profile
• 17.6 Creating a Mobile Application Archive File
  • 17.6.1 How to Create a Mobile Application Archive File
• 17.7 Creating Unsigned Deployment Packages
  • 17.7.1 How to Create an Unsigned Application
  • 17.7.2 What Happens When You Import an ADF Mobile Application Archive File
• 17.8 Deploying ADF Mobile Applications from the Command Line
  • 17.8.1 Using OJDeploy to Deploy ADF Mobile Applications

18 ADF Mobile Application Security

• 18.1 Introduction to Security for an ADF Mobile Application
• 18.2 Introduction to the User Login Process
• 18.3 Introduction to Authentication
  • 18.3.1 About Constraint-Dictated Access Control
• 18.4 Configuring Security for ADF Mobile Applications
  • 18.4.1 How to Enable Application Features to Require Authentication
  • 18.4.2 How to Designate the Login Page
  • 18.4.3 Enabling Login without the Access Control Service
  • 18.4.4 What Happens When You Create an ADF Mobile Connection
  • 18.4.5 What You May Need to Know About Configuring ADF Mobile to Respond to Unsuccessful Login Attempts
  • 18.4.6 What Happens in JDeveloper When You Configure Security
  • 18.4.7 What You May Need to Know About the Access Control Service
  • 18.4.8 What Happens When You Enable Cookie Injection into REST Web Service Calls
  • 18.4.9 What You May Need to Know About Injecting Cookies into REST Web Service Calls
  • 18.4.10 What You May Need to Know About Injecting Basic Authentication Headers
  • 18.4.11 What You May Need to Know about Web Service Security
  • 18.4.12 What You May Need to Know About Login Pages
    • 18.4.12.1 The Default Login Page
    • 18.4.12.2 The Custom Login Page
    • 18.4.12.3 Creating a Custom Login HTML Page
• 18.5 Adding Private Certificates

19 Testing and Debugging ADF Mobile Applications

• 19.1 Introduction to Testing and Debugging ADF Mobile Applications
• 19.2 Testing ADF Mobile Applications
  • 19.2.1 How to Perform Accessibility Testing on iOS-Powered Devices
• 19.3 Debugging ADF Mobile Applications
  • 19.3.1 How to Debug on iOS Platform
  • 19.3.2 How to Debug on Android Platform
  • 19.3.3 How to Debug the ADF Mobile AMX Content
  • 19.3.4 How to Enable Debugging of Java Code and JavaScript
    • 19.3.4.1 What You May Need to Know About Debugging of JavaScript Using an iOS-Powered Device Simulator on iOS 6 Platform
  • 19.3.5 How to Configure the Debug Mode
• 19.4 Using and Configuring Logging
  • 19.4.1 How to Configure Logging Using the Properties File
  • 19.4.2 How to Use JavaScript Logging
  • 19.4.3 How to Use Embedded Logging
  • 19.4.4 How to Use Xcode for Debugging and Logging on iOS Platform

Part VII Appendixes

A Troubleshooting

• A.1 Problems with Input Components on iOS Simulators
• A.2 Code Signing Issues Prevent Deployment
• A.3 Missing Android SDK Tools File Prevents Deployment

B Application Container APIs

• B.1 Using ADF Mobile APIs to Create a Custom HTML Springboard Application Feature
  • B.1.1 About Executing Code in Custom HTML Pages
• B.2 The ADF Mobile Container Utilities API
  • B.2.1 Using the JavaScript Callbacks
  • B.2.2 Using the Container Utilities API
  • B.2.3 checkforNewConfiguration
  • B.2.4 getApplicationInformation
  • B.2.5 gotoDefaultFeature
  • B.2.6 getFeatures
  • B.2.7 gotoFeature
  • B.2.8 getFeatureByName
  • B.2.9 getFeatureById
  • B.2.10 resetFeature
  • B.2.11 gotoSpringboard
  • B.2.12 hideNavigationBar
  • B.2.13 showNavigationBar
  • B.2.14 invokeMethod
  • B.2.15 invokeContainerJavaScriptFunction
  • B.2.16 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.2.1.1 Preferences Element Mapping
    • C.2.1.2 Preference Attribute Mapping
    • C.2.1.3 Attribute Default Values
    • C.2.1.4 Preferences Screen Root Element
  • C.2.2 arrays.xml
  • C.2.3 Strings.xml
• C.3 Converting Preferences for iOS

D ADF Mobile Application Usage

• D.1 Introduction to ADF Mobile Application Usage
• D.2 Installing the ADF Mobile Application on a Mobile Device
  • D.2.1 How to Install ADF Mobile Applications on iOS-Powered Devices
  • D.2.2 How to Install ADF Mobile Applications on Android-Powered Devices
  • D.2.3 How to Uninstall an ADF Mobile Application
• D.3 Navigating Between Application Features
  • D.3.1 How to Navigate Between Application Features on iOS-Powered Devices
    • D.3.1.1 Navigating Using the Springboard
    • D.3.1.2 Using Single-Featured Applications
  • 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 ADF Mobile Sample Applications

• F.1 Overview of the ADF Mobile Sample Applications