Table of Contents

• Title and Copyright Information
• Preface
  • Audience
  • Documentation Accessibility
  • Related Documents
  • Conventions
• 1 Introduction to Oracle Mobile Application Framework
  • 1.1 Introduction to the 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
• 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 Migrating from Earlier Versions of MAF
  • 2.3 Setting Up Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse
    • 2.3.1 How to Configure the Development Environment for Target Platforms
  • 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 an MAF Application
    • 3.2.3 What You May Need to Know About Editing MAF Applications and Application Features
    • 3.2.4 About the MAF Application Editor and MAF Feature Editor
    • 3.2.5 Creating a MAF AMX Page
  • 3.3 Migrating Mobile Applications
• 4 Defining a Mobile Application
  • 4.1 Introduction to Defining Mobile Applications
    • 4.1.1 Using the MAF Application Editor for maf-application.xml
    • 4.1.2 Using the Mobile Feature Editor for maf-features.xml
  • 4.2 Using the Oracle MAF Perspective
  • 4.3 About the Mobile Application Configuration File maf-application.xml
  • 4.4 Setting the Basic Information for a Mobile Application
    • 4.4.1 How to Set the ID and Display Behavior for a Mobile Application
  • 4.5 Invoking a Mobile Application Using a Custom URL Scheme
  • 4.6 Configuring the Springboard and Navigation Bar Behavior
    • 4.6.1 How to Configure Application Navigation
    • 4.6.2 What Happens When You Configure the Navigation Options
    • 4.6.3 What Happens When You Set the Animation for the Springboard
    • 4.6.4 What You May Need to Know About Custom Springboard Application Features with HTML Content
    • 4.6.5 What You May Need to Know About Custom Springboard Application Features with MAF AMX Content
    • 4.6.6 What You May Need to Know About the Runtime Springboard Behavior
  • 4.7 Configuring the Application Features within a Mobile Application
    • 4.7.1 How to Designate the Content for a Mobile Application
    • 4.7.2 What You May Need to Know About Feature Reference IDs and Feature IDs
  • 4.8 About Lifecycle Event Listeners
    • 4.8.1 Events in Mobile Applications
    • 4.8.2 Timing for Mobile Application Events
    • 4.8.3 Using the activate and deactivate Methods to Save Application State
    • 4.8.4 About Application Feature Lifecycle Listener Classes
    • 4.8.5 Timing for Activate and Deactivate Events in the Application Feature Lifecycle
    • 4.8.6 Enabling Sliding Windows
  • 4.9 About the Mobile Application Feature Configuration File
  • 4.10 Setting the Basic Configuration for the Application Features
    • 4.10.1 How to Define the Basic Information for an Application Feature
  • 4.11 Defining the Content Types for an Application Feature
    • 4.11.1 How to Define the Application Content
    • 4.11.2 What You May Need to Know About Selecting External Resources
  • 4.12 Working with Localized Content
    • 4.12.1 Working with Resource Bundles
  • 4.13 Skinning Mobile Applications
    • 4.13.1 About the maf-skins.xml File
    • 4.13.2 What You May Need to Know About MAF Styles
    • 4.13.3 About the maf-skins.xml File
    • 4.13.4 How to Add a Custom Skin to an Application
    • 4.13.5 How to Specify a Skin for an Application to Use
    • 4.13.6 How to Register a Custom Skin
    • 4.13.7 How to Version MAF Skins
    • 4.13.8 What Happens When You Version Skins
    • 4.13.9 Overriding the Default Skin Styles
    • 4.13.10 What You May Need to Know About Skinning
    • 4.13.11 Enabling Dynamic Skin Selection at Runtime
  • 4.14 Working with Feature Archive Files
    • 4.14.1 Importing a FAR as an Application Library
    • 4.14.2 What You May Need to Know About Using a FAR to Update the sync-config.xml File
    • 4.14.3 What Happens When You Add a FAR as a View Controller Project
    • 4.14.4 What You May Need to Know About Enabling the Reuse of Feature Archive Resources
  • 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
• 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 task-flow-definition.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 an 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 Boolean Switch Component
    • 6.3.10 How to Use the Select Many Checkbox Component
    • 6.3.11 How to Use the Select Many Choice Component
    • 6.3.12 How to Use the Select Button Component
    • 6.3.13 How to Use the Radio Button Component
    • 6.3.14 How to Use the Choice Component
    • 6.3.15 How to Use List View and List Item Components
    • 6.3.16 How to Use the 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 an 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
    • 6.5.27 How to Enable Interactivity in Chart Components
    • 6.5.28 How to Create Polar Charts
  • 6.6 Styling UI Components
    • 6.6.1 How to Use Component Attributes to Define Style
    • 6.6.2 How to Work with Built-in and Inline Style Classes
    • 6.6.3 What You May Need to Know About Skinning
    • 6.6.4 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 Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse
    • 7.4.2 What Happens When You Use Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse 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 Palette
    • 7.6.1 How to Use the Data Controls Palette
    • 7.6.2 What Happens When You Use the Data Controls Palette
  • 7.7 What Happens at Runtime: How the Binding Context Works
  • 7.8 Working with Data Control Attributes
    • 7.8.1 Setting UI Hints on Attributes
  • 7.9 Creating and Using Bean Data Controls
    • 7.9.1 What You May Need to Know About Serialization of Bean Class Variables
  • 7.10 Using the DeviceFeatures Data Control
    • 7.10.1 How to Use the getPicture Method to Enable Taking Pictures
    • 7.10.2 How to Use the SendSMS Method to Enable Text Messaging
    • 7.10.3 How to Use the sendEmail Method to Enable Email
    • 7.10.4 How to Use the createContact Method to Enable Creating Contacts
    • 7.10.5 How to Use the findContacts Method to Enable Finding Contacts
    • 7.10.6 How to Use the updateContact Method to Enable Updating Contacts
    • 7.10.7 How to Use the removeContact Method to Enable Removing Contacts
    • 7.10.8 How to Use the startLocationMonitor Method to Enable Geolocation
    • 7.10.9 How to Use the displayFile Method to Enable Displaying Files
    • 7.10.10 Device Properties
  • 7.11 Validating Attributes
  • 7.12 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
  • 8.3 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 What You May Need to Know About Credential Injection
    • 8.5.3 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 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 Creating Custom MAF AMX UI Components
  • 11.1 Introduction to Creating Custom UI Components
  • 11.2 Using MAF APIs to Create Custom Components
    • 11.2.1 How to Use Static APIs
    • 11.2.2 How to Use AmxEvent Classes
    • 11.2.3 How to Use the TypeHandler
    • 11.2.4 How to Use the AmxNode
    • 11.2.5 How to Use the AmxTag
    • 11.2.6 How to Use the VisitContext
    • 11.2.7 How to Use the AmxAttributeChange
    • 11.2.8 How to Use the AmxDescendentChanges
    • 11.2.9 How to Use the AmxCollectionChange
    • 11.2.10 How to Use the AmxNodeChangeResult
    • 11.2.11 How to Use the AmxNodeStates
    • 11.2.12 How to Use the AmxNodeUpdateArguments
  • 11.3 Creating Custom Components
• 12 Implementing Application Feature Content Using Remote URLs
  • 12.1 Overview of Remote URL Applications
    • 12.1.1 Enabling Remote Applications to Access Device Services through Whitelists
    • 12.1.2 Enabling Remote URL Implementations to Access Apache Cordova
    • 12.1.3 How Whitelisted Domains Access Device Capabilities
    • 12.1.4 How to Create a Whitelist (or Restrict a Domain)
    • 12.1.5 What Happens When You Add Domains to a Whitelist
    • 12.1.6 What You May Need to Know About Remote URLs
  • 12.2 Creating Whitelists for Application Components
  • 12.3 Enabling the Browser Navigation Bar on Remote URL Pages
    • 12.3.1 How to Add the Navigation Bar to a Remote URL Application Feature
    • 12.3.2 What Happens When You Enable the Browser Navigation Buttons for a Remote URL Application Feature
  • 12.4 About Authoring Remote Content
• 13 Enabling User Preferences
  • 13.1 Creating User Preference Pages for a Mobile Application
    • 13.1.1 How to Create Mobile Application-Level Preferences Pages
    • 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
• 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
    • 14.2.6 Creating Dynamic Constraints on Application Features and Content
• 15 Using AppXray for MAF Artifacts
  • 15.1 Introduction to Using AppXray for MAF Artifacts
  • 15.2 Using AppXray
    • 15.2.1 How to Open AppXaminer
    • 15.2.2 Using AppXaminer
  • 15.3 Refactoring with AppXray
• 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
• 19 Deploying Mobile Applications
  • 19.1 Introduction to Deployment of Mobile Applications
    • 19.1.1 How Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse Deploys Applications
  • 19.2 Working with Deployment Configurations
    • 19.2.1 How to Create a Deployment Configuration
    • 19.2.2 What Happens When You Create a Deployment Configuration
    • 19.2.3 Differences Between Run Configurations and Debug Configurations
    • 19.2.4 How to Create an Android Deployment Configuration
    • 19.2.5 Deploying an Android Application
    • 19.2.6 How to Create an iOS Deployment Configuration
    • 19.2.7 Deploying an iOS Application
  • 19.3 Deploying Feature Archive Files (FARs)
    • 19.3.1 How to Create a Mobile Feature Archive FIle
    • 19.3.2 How to Deploy the Feature Archive Deployment Profile
    • 19.3.3 What Happens When You Create a Feature Archive File Deployment Profile
  • 19.4 Creating a Mobile Application Archive File
    • 19.4.1 How to Create a Mobile Application Archive File
  • 19.5 Creating Unsigned Deployment Packages
    • 19.5.1 How to Create an Unsigned Application
    • 19.5.2 What Happens When You Import a MAF Application Archive File
  • 19.6 Deploying with Oracle Mobile Security Suite
    • 19.6.1 What You Need To Know Before Using OMSS
    • 19.6.2 How to Encrypt your Content Using Containerization
• 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 Web SSO Authentication
    • 21.4.4 How to Configure Authentication Using Oracle Mobile and Social Identity Management
    • 21.4.5 How to Configure OAuth Authentication
    • 21.4.6 How to Update Connection Attributes of a Named Connection at Runtime
    • 21.4.7 How to Store Login Credentials
    • 21.4.8 What You May Need to Know About Multiple Identities for Local and Hybrid Login Connections
    • 21.4.9 What Happens When You Enable Cookie Injection into REST Web Service Calls
    • 21.4.10 What You May Need to Know About Adding Cookies to REST Web Service Calls
    • 21.4.11 What Happens at Runtime: When MAF Calls a REST Web Service
    • 21.4.12 What You May Need to Know About Injecting Basic Authentication Headers
    • 21.4.13 What You May Need to Know about Web Service Security
    • 21.4.14 How to Configure Access Control
    • 21.4.15 What You May Need to Know About the Access Control Service
    • 21.4.16 How to Alter the Application Loading Sequence
    • 21.4.17 What Happens When You Define a Multi-Tenant Connection
    • 21.4.18 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 Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse 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
• A Troubleshooting
  • A.1 Problems with Input Components on iOS Simulators
  • A.2 Code Signing Issues Prevent Deployment
• B 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