F Mobile Application Framework Sample Applications

HelloWorld

The "hello world" application for MAF, which demonstrates the basic structure of the framework. This basic application has a single application feature that is implemented with a local HTML file. Use this application to ascertain that the development environment is set up correctly to compile and deploy an application. See also Section 3.2.2, "What Happens When You Create a MAF Application."

CompGallery

This application serves as an introduction to the MAF AMX UI components by demonstrating all of these components. Using this application, you can change the attributes of these components and see the effects of those changes in real time without recompiling and redeploying the application after each change. See generally Chapter 6, "Creating the MAF AMX User Interface."

UIDemo

This application demonstrates the user interface layout and shows how to create the various list and button styles that are commonly used in mobile applications. It also demonstrates how to create the action sheet style of a popup component and how to use various chart and gauge components. See Section 6.3, "Creating and Using UI Components" and Section 6.5, "Providing Data Visualization."

This application must be opened from the Samples directory. The Default springboard option must be cleared in the Applications page of the maf-application.xml overview editor, then selected again.

FragmentDemo

This application shows how you can use fragments to define reusable artifacts that can used as templates. It demonstrates how you can have multiple content types for each feature, one for tablet, one for phone, and use the fragment so that you don't have to code the list/form each time.

Navigation

This application demonstrates the various navigation techniques in MAF, including bounded task flows and routers. It also demonstrates the various page transitions. See also Section 5.2, "Creating Task Flows."

This application must be opened from the Samples directory. The Default springboard option must be cleared in the Applications page of the maf-application.xml overview editor, then selected again.

LifecycleEvents

This application implements lifecycle event handlers on the mobile application itself and its embedded application features. This application shows you where to insert code to enable the applications to perform their own logic at certain points in the lifecycle. See also Section 4.7, "Using Lifecycle Listeners in a Mobile Application."

For iOS, the LifecycleEvents sample application logs data to the Console application, located at Applications-Utilities-Console application.

DeviceDemo

This application shows you how to use the DeviceFeatures Data Control to expose device features such as geolocation, e-mail, SMS, and contacts, as well as how to query the device for its properties. This feature demonstrates how to use displayFile method from DeviceFeatures data control to display various types files like .doc, .ppt, .xls, and .png. For more information, see Section 7.11, "Using the DeviceFeatures Data Control" and Section 7.11.9, "How to Use the displayFile Method to Enable Displaying Files."

You must also run this application on an actual device, because SMS and some of the device properties do not function on an iOS simulator or Android emulator.

GestureDemo

This application demonstrates how gestures can be implemented and used in MAF applications. See also Section 6.4, "Enabling Gestures."

StockTracker

This sample demonstrates a simple example of how to build CRUD operations using a SQLite DB and a dean data control. It displays a list of stocks and allows you to Create, Update, Delete or Reorder the stocks. It uses a local SQLite database to store its data. The StockTracker application persists the data during CRUD operations. This sample also demonstrates how data change events use Java to enable data changes to be reflected in the user interface. It also has a variety of layout use cases, gestures, and basic mobile application layout patterns. This sample also demonstrates how to use CREATE and DELETE operations to add or delete items to and from a collection. For more details, look at the addStock and deleteStock methods in Portfolio.java class located in the Portfolio package. See also Section 7.13, "About Data Change Events."

WorkBetter

This human resources application contains two features: People and Organizations.People: This feature includes a search component, which allows you to search for people. It also demonstrates the ability to create custom components as well as how to build reusable layouts as fragments and use them between different features. It demonstrates how to use various DVT visualization components to display performance, compensation, and timeline- related information.Organizations: Like the People feature, this feature demonstrates how to build reusable layouts as fragments and use them between different features. It also demonstrates how to create views for different form factors and configure them.

This application is meant to be an end-to-end demo of the various UI techniques and components available. It shows a variety of layout patterns and demonstrates various uses for both common and more complex components. It is not meant to showcase a compete application but rather focus on the user interface. Please consult other samples for things like data-model or web services.

SkinningDemo

This application demonstrates how to skin applications and add a unique look and feel by either overriding the supplied style sheets or extending them with their own style sheets. This application also shows how skins control the styling of MAF AMX UI components based on the type of device. It also demonstrates the ability to change skin families (out-of-the-box or custom) at runtime. See also Section 4.12, "Skinning Mobile Applications."

PrefDemo

This application demonstrates application-wide and application feature-specific user setting pages. See generally Chapter 14, "Enabling User Preferences."

Weather1

This application, which does not use Java code, demonstrates using declarative web services. The web services used by this application are SOAP web services, specifically a public web service provided by CDYNE Corporation (http://www.cdyne.com/), that provides weather forecasts by Zip code. Ensure that this service is available before running this application. See, generally, Chapter 8, "Using Web Services."

Weather2

This application demonstrates using a programmatic invocation of web services and parsing the GenericType object returned into real Java objects. The user interface is then bound to the Java Beans instead of directly to the web service. For more information, see Section 8.6, "Invoking Web Services From Java."

Weather3

Although this application is identical to the Weather2 sample application, it demonstrates the use of a non-blocking background thread to invoke the web service and how the user interface is updated when the service returns. This application demonstrates how it updates the user interface by flushing the data change events from the thread.

RESTDemo

This application demonstrates using REST web services. Its two application features, REST-XML and REST-JSON use the same publicly available web service to retrieve the geo-coordinates of a given IP address or domain. The service can return either XML or JSON formats. The REST-XML application feature uses an XSD and creates a URL data control to access the structured data. The user interface binds to that data control. In the REST-JSON version, the URL connection is used directly by the RESTServiceAdapter helper class to invoke the web service and then the response is parsed using the JSONSerializationHelper class and populates a bean data control. The user interface is bound to this bean. For both of the application features, the web service call results in a form and a map. The latter is centered with a marker with the returned geo-coordinate. For more information, see Section 8.2.3, "How to Create a Web Service Data Control Using REST."

APIDemo

This application demonstrates how to invoke custom JavaScript methods from within a MAF AMX page. Use this approach to invoke the Apache Cordova APIs that are not included in the DeviceFeatures data control. You can also use this approach to add custom JavaScript methods to an application and invoke them as well. This application also demonstrates calling back to Java from the JavaScript methods. For more information, see Section 4.9.1, "How to Define the Basic Information for an Application Feature" and Section B.2, "The MAF Container Utilities API."

RangeChangeDemo

This application demonstrates how to use a RangeChangeEvent to invoke a Java handler method when the List View requires new data to be fetched from an external source. It also demonstrates how to configure the scrolling and buffering behavior of a List View using its attributes. For more information, see Section 6.3.15.1, "Configuring Paging and Dynamic Scrolling."

BarcodeDemo

This application demonstrates how to make use of a Cordova plugin by calling the BarcodeScanner plugin from embedded JavaScript that is invoked from a backing bean. Android and iOS versions of the plugin were manually added to the application controller and view controller projects, then registered within the maf-application.xml file. For more information, see Section 4.15, "Integrating Cordova Plugins into Mobile Applications."

ExpandCollapseComponent

This application demonstrates how to create a custom component that can act as a container for any type of AMX component. It also provides an example of expand and collapse functionality. For more details look at the cardview.js file in the js folder. This JavaScript file contains a method (expandcollapse.prototype.render) that renders the UI of the component. It also contains a method that demonstrates how to render the child components of the custom component. For more information, see Section 12.1, "Introduction to Creating Custom UI Components."

SlidingWindows

This application demonstrates the use of the AdfmfSlidingWindowUtilities API, which can be used to display multiple features on the screen at the same time. This sample shows how you can create a custom springboard or create a global navigation bar using the AdfmfSlidingWindowUtilities API.

ConfigServiceDemo

This application demonstrates the use of the Configuration Service to change the end points used in a MAF application. Changes to end points in connections.xml are propagated to the application on the device and the application re-initialized to consume the new end points. For more information, see Section 9.1, "Introduction to Configuring End Points."

SecurityDemo

This application demonstrates how to secure a MAF application, configure authentication and the login server, use the Access Control Service, and access secure web services. For more information, see Section 21.1, "About Mobile Application Framework Security."

This application is used with the ACS sample application, which provides the REST services used to configure the login server and the Access Control Service.

ACS

This application provides the REST services that are used within the SecurityDemo application to configure the login server and the Access Control Service.

This web application needs to be deployed on a Weblogic server.