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    IBM Worklight Mobile Application Development Essentials
    IBM Worklight Mobile Application Development Essentials
    IBM Worklight Mobile Application Development Essentials
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    IBM Worklight Mobile Application Development Essentials

    By Muhammad Saif Uddin and Talha Haroon

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    About this ebook

    This book will guide you through the process of building an application and customizing it with the help of lucid instructions on development, configuration, and administration with a practical, stepbystep approach.

    If you are a developer who wants to create mobile applications quickly, this is the book for you. Some basic knowledge about of web technologies and client side languages such as JavaScript, CSS and HTML will serve you well.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPackt Publishing
    Release dateFeb 21, 2014
    ISBN9781782177616
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      IBM Worklight Mobile Application Development Essentials - Muhammad Saif Uddin

      Table of Contents

      IBM Worklight Mobile Application Development Essentials

      Credits

      About the Authors

      Acknowledgement

      About the Reviewers

      www.PacktPub.com

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      Preface

      What this book covers

      What you need for this book

      Who this book is for

      Conventions

      Reader feedback

      Customer support

      Downloading the example code

      Errata

      Piracy

      Questions

      1. Getting Started with IBM Worklight

      The IBM Worklight solution

      Worklight capabilities and supported platforms

      Components of Worklight

      Worklight Studio

      Features of the Worklight Studio platform

      Pure native and web development

      Shell development and concept

      Optimized framework

      Integrated development and mobile simulator

      Worklight Device Runtime

      Worklight Server

      Worklight Console

      Worklight Application Center

      Summary

      2. Installing Worklight

      Installing IBM Worklight Consumer Edition

      Installing IBM Installation Manager

      Installing IBM Worklight Server

      Configuring a database for the Worklight Server

      Configuring WebSphere Application Server (Liberty profile)

      Installing IBM Worklight Studio

      Installing IBM Worklight Developer Edition

      Installing Android SDK

      Summary

      3. Creating a Basic Worklight Application

      Creating a simple IBM Worklight application

      Worklight project and application structure

      Application resources

      Rich Page Editor

      Adding an environment

      Verifying the server configuration

      Building the application

      Application skins

      Previewing an application in the mobile simulator

      Summary

      4. Customizing the Worklight Application

      A quick overview of HTML5

      The IBM Worklight client-side API

      The WLClient JavaScript client library

      Exploring Dojo Mobile

      Designing your first Dojo application

      Adding an environment in IBM Worklight

      Application resources

      Application-descriptor

      The main HTML file

      Client scripts and stylesheets

      The application icon

      The splash screen

      The Worklight client property file

      Exploring the Android application environment

      Summary

      5. Adding an Adapter

      IBM Worklight Adapter concept

      Exploring adapter files

      Types of adapters

      HTTP adapters

      SQL adapters

      Invoking the adapter procedure

      Calling Java code using an adapter

      Invoking Java code from the adapter

      Summary

      6. Authentication and Security

      Worklight security principles, concepts, and terminologies

      Challenge handler

      Authenticator

      The login module

      Authentication realms

      Security test

      Examining generated realms, security test, and login modules

      Generating realms

      Generating login modules

      Generating security tests

      Creating adapter-based authentication

      Client side – adapter authentication components

      Challenge handler in Worklight

      Form-based authentication

      Security realm

      The login module

      Security test

      Challenge handler

      Custom authentication

      Summary

      7. Advanced Features of IBM Worklight

      Push notification

      Device and platforms support

      Worklight push notification concepts and terminology

      WL client API

      WL.BusyIndicator

      WL.Logger

      WL.SimpleDialog

      Cordova plugins

      Encrypted Offline Cache

      Storage JSONStore

      Summary

      Index

      IBM Worklight Mobile Application Development Essentials

      IBM Worklight Mobile Application Development Essentials

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      Credits

      Authors

      Muhammad Saif Uddin

      Talha Haroon

      Reviewers

      ABDUL AHAD

      Houcem BERRAYANA

      Touchapon Kraisingkorn

      Mohammad Omer Raza

      Saurabh Srivastava

      Acquisition Editors

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      Technical Editors

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      Copy Editors

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      Project Coordinator

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      About the Authors

      Muhammad Saif Uddin has diverse experience in mobile, software, and web development. For the past few years, he has been exploring new mobile development environments to make mobile app development easy in the future. He has exposure to most of the development technologies that exist but is mainly focused on Android and iOS mobile development. He has successfully designed over 30 mobile apps, which are distributed on iTunes and App Store—AMEX Mobile and Bayt Mobile are two of these apps. He is also IBM Worklight Certified, and besides his remarkable knowledge of the mobile world, he has introduced many enterprise and web applications with Responsive Web Design. He blogs at http://saifo.blogspot.com and writes articles and tutorials on different technologies that include Android, Worklight, and Java. He lives in Karachi, Pakistan, with his wife and family.

      First, I would like to thank Almighty Allah (Subahana wa tala). The people I'd like to thank most for their direct or indirect help in writing this book are my wife and my parents; the rest of my family for their love and support; and my fellow staff and friends who gave me encouragement and support, including Adeel Ansari, Aneel Ansari, Kashif Haseeb, Babar Qadri, and Mobin Khan.

      Finally, I'd like to thank my co-author, Talha Haroon, without whom this project wouldn't have been possible.

      Talha Haroon initially started working in the HRM and CRM fields as his main areas of focus, but later on in his career path, he dedicatedly moved to MobileFirst. If we glance at his specialities, then it would become apparent that he has proficient expertise in ERP's development and customization as well as mobile hybrid development. He is also IBM Worklight Certified and has deployed and developed many enterprise and mobile applications in which AMEX Mobile app and AppleVacationsOnline.com are the most highlighted and his biggest products. Moreover, he has introduced some futuristic business processes that will assist retail businesses to grow by themselves.

      After thanking Allah (subahana wa tala), I am pleased to thank my mother, Fauzia Haroon, who always prays for me and has made me capable enough to raise myself in an upright way. Of course, my special thanks to my co-author, Muhammad Saif Uddin, who played a very crucial role within this project.

      Acknowledgement

      The staff at Packt Publishing worked inexhaustibly with us to make sure that this book attained the level of quality that we hoped for, and we thank them for their efforts. Without them, this book would not have been possible. It includes not only our publisher, but also the following contributors: Priyanka Shah, Jomin Varghese, Ashish Bhanushali, and fellow reviewers include ABDUL AHAD, Houcem BERRAYANA, Touchapon Kraisingkorn, Mohammad Omer Raza, and Saurabh Srivastava.

      Special thanks to Mustafa Qutbuddin, CEO, Royal Cyber. It was because of you that we were able to get this book completed.

      Also, special thanks to Syed Basheer, Senior Manager, Royal Cyber, for playing your part and providing perfect guidance to us.

      About the Reviewers

      ABDUL AHAD is a senior consultant with 10 years' IT experience. He has worked on different platforms, technologies, and tools. He has excellent skill sets and knowledge on IBM and mobility solutions. He works in a premier business partner company of IBM.

      Houcem BERRAYANA is a senior Java software developer. Because he works in the IT services domain, he has had the chance to work on many technologies and domains such as JEE, Android, Worklight, PHP, and Rails. And he has experience in dealing with different kinds of clients such as banks, telecom operators, startups, and big companies. He loves web development and always prefers designing the backend of an application. He started using the hybrid mobile application in 2010.

      He has already delivered three Worklight projects, and one of them is considered as one of the biggest Worklight deployments until now. He was designing the details of both JavaScript and server-side implementations.

      He works at Proxym-IT, a very cool Tunisian IT company, providing IT services and works for cool projects and technologies.

      I would like to thank my wife for

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