Oracle Mobile Application Framework 2.1: Develop Mobile Apps (D88029) – Outline

Detailed Course Outline

Mobile Development and Mobile Application Framework: Introduction

• Mobile challenges and enterprise concerns
• Designing for mobile
• Hybrid mobile applications
• HTML5, Java, and JavaScript
• Device native user experience
• Framework features
• MAF Extension for JDeveloper or OEPE
• Android SDK tools, Xcode

Designing Mobile Applications with Mobile Application Framework

• Default projects and contents
• Application configuration file
• Application resources
• Project and application properties

Building Features in a MAF Application

• Features, feature content, and constraints
• Views and control flows
• Accessing user, device, and hardware properties
• Features at design time; constraints level: feature or content
• Springboard, Navigation bar
• Device access
• Remote URL
• HTML content

Developing a Simple Mobile User Interface

• Facets, including header, primary, secondary, and footer
• Component framework
• AMX tags
• Data controls
• Output text and input text
• Layout components, including panel splitter, table layout, row layout, and cell layout
• Command buttons and links

A Closer Look at Developing a MAF UI

• Managed beans
• Configuration files
• Bean Scope, including application, page flow, and view
• Expression Language in code and properties
• Pop-ups
• Popup component and Show Popup Behavior operation
• Navigation transition

Binding Data to Pages with Data Controls

• Data controls and bindings
• Collections, attributes, methods, and operations
• Declarative configuration
• DCX files, CPX files, and UI Hints
• Page definitions
• Prebuilt data controls for device access

Displaying Complex Data with Visualization Components

• Charts
• Gauges
• Geographic maps
• Thematic maps
• Map types
• Custom maps

Working with Remote and Local Data

• mechanisms that are used to create data controls from web services
• Consuming SOAP and REST web services
• Accessing data in an on-device SQLite database
• Using POJOs to indirectly access web services and exposing them as data controls

Improving the UI with Devices Services

• Enhancing mobile applications by incorporating device services, such as camera, email, and bar code readers
• Identifying device properties to determine feature functionality
• Employing declarative and programmatic techniques for accessing device services
• Using device services to allow end users to control aspects of how the mobile application runs

Using Non-Declarative Programming Techniques

• Identifying non-declarative programming scenarios in MAF
• Working with framework utility classes and common programming use cases
• Refreshes to the user interface using provider and property change events
• Invoking the binding layer from Java

Securing MAF Applications

• Security features available in MAF
• Supported security scenarios
• Enabling authentication security for the application
• Configuring user authorization inside an application
• How Oracle Access Manager supports Mobile Services and Social Identity
• Using a whitelist to establish which URLs open in the application's embedded browser or in the default browser of the device

Implementing Standards by Reusing Application Artifacts

• Constructing and reusing template-like fragment components for a consistent look and feel across MAF applications
• Designing and developing a page fragment that includes both static and dynamic content
• Consuming a page fragment in a page, using attribute values as parameters to the page
• Classifying and defining common features, and then archiving and consuming them
• Archiving applications for redistribution

Deploying and Debugging MAF Applications

• Options for archiving an application
• Creating and modifying deployment profiles for both device platforms
• Deploying applications to Android and iOS platforms
• Using logging APIs to diagnosis and fix application problems
• Running the application in debug mode and debugging Java code from the JDeveloper IDE
• Debugging JavaScript, HTML, and style sheets