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IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation 8.0

Mobile First Platform - Product Features

Comprehensive Security - Protect from mobile specific threats
- Advanced Mobile Authentication - Easily add advanced mobile authentication to your apps, including step-up, multi-factor, SSO between apps & between back-ends and more.
- App Authenticity - App fingerprinting to prevent access to your APIs from malicious apps.
- Certificate Pinning - Thwart Man-in-the-Middle attacks.
- Remote Disable & Version Enforcement - Protect users from unsafe apps by disabling versions & forcing users to upgrade.
- Device Whitelisting & Blacklisting - Protect from device loss, theft, or misuse.
App Lifecycle Management - To reduce time and costs of operations and incremental updates
- Direct Update - Push over-the-air changes to front end web resources without app store review.
- Live Update - Change your app on the fly, roll new features out gradually, A/B test, and customize your app for different users.
Mobile Analytics - To better understand your users
- Crash Analytics - Make sure your app is stable, and that you can fix problems quickly.
- App & API Performance Analytics - Stay ahead of problems, and keep your app responsive.
- App Usage Metrics & Custom Business Metrics - Understand your users and how they use your app.
Backend Logic Engine - To add server side logic to your app
- Adapters - Quickly develop & run server side code to communicate with your backend systems securely. Add your business logic, and make it dynamically configurable so you can change app behavior without recompile.
- Dynamic Set-up of App Security & Back-End Configuration - Make changes in real-time to the app security configuration (eg. authentication method, max number of login attempts allowed) or backend configuration (eg. Database URL), with zero downtime or recompile.
Push & Offline Sync - Essential backend services that every app needs
- Push and SMS Notifications - Deliver messages to multiple platforms with a single API & send targeted messages from a web console.
- JSONStore - Encrypted on device storage & automated data sync for better app performance & offline access.

Tools

MobileFirst Development Kit bundles together the following components:

MobileFirst Server
- MobileFirst and the MobileFirst Server administration service
- MobileFirst runtime
- MobileFirst Server push service
- MobileFirst Analytics and the MobileFirst Analytics Console
MobileFirst Operations Console
MobileFirst Command-line Interface (CLI)
MobileFirst client SDKs
MobileFirst adapter tooling
MobileFirst Plaform Fountation
MobileFirst Studio
MobileFirst Mobile Test Workbench

MobileFirst Server

Production Server

IBM Installation Manager
WebSphere Liberty profile v8.5.5.8
MobileFirst Server for Production

Product Main Capabilities

Development
Back-end connections
Push notifications
Offline mode
Update
Security
Analytics
Monitoring
Application publishing

Matrix of features & platforms http://mobilefirstplatform.ibmcloud.com/tutorials/en/foundation/8.0/product-overview/features-matrix/

Developing Applications

Adding the MobileFirst SDK
Using the MobileFirst CLI
MobileFirst Eclipse plug-in
Cordova application development
Resource Requests
JSONStore
Client-side log collection
Direct Update
Multilingual translation
Debugging applications
Live Update
Simple Data Sharing
watchOS 2, watchOS 3

Developing Adapters

Creating Adapters
JavaScript Adapters
Java Adapters
Developing Adapters in Eclipse
Testing and Debugging Adapters
Server-side log collection
Adapter Mashup
Integrating with Cloudant

Authentication and Security

Creating a security check
Credentials Validation
User Authentication
Step Up Authentication
ExternalizableSecurityCheck
Enrollment
LTPA Security Check
Application Authenticity
Confidential Clients
Device SSO
Protecting External Resources
Certificate Pinning
Configuring the Server Keystore

Notifications

Sending Notifications
Handling SMS Notifications
Handling Push Notifications
Setting Up Analytics Support
Push Service REST APIs

Analytics

Analytics API
Analytics REST API
Elasticsearch
Analytics Console
Workflows

Administering Applications

Deploying apps to environments
Administrating using the console
Administrating using Ant
Administrating using terminal
Federal standards support
License tracking

Application Center

Preparations
Push notifications
The Application Center console
Uploading or deleting an app
The mobile client
Setting up logging and tracing

Foundation Developers Admins

Product Components

MobileFirst CLI
MobileFirst Server
Client-side runtime components
MobileFirst Operations Console
MobileFirst Application Center
MobileFirst System Pattern

IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation-http://mobilefirstplatform.ibmcloud.com/tutorials/en/foundation/8.0/api/client-side-api/

MobileFirst Server IBM MobileFirst Platform Studio is an Eclipse plug-in MobileFirst CLI MobileFirst Platform Operations Console

Server-side development JavaScript adapters Java Adapters JSONStore

Notifications Analytics Foundation on Bluemix Application Center

API Connect

Getting Started
IBM API Connect: new approach for API management
Introducing IBM API Connect

MFP

Bluemix

Watson

https://www-304.ibm.com/services/learning/ites.wss/zz/en/?pageType=page&c=J179530Z42409M36

Mobile Application Developer skills for IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation

Download

Download

Documentation

Documentation

Introduction to MobileFirst Studio

IBM MobileFirst Platform Studio is an Eclipse plug-in that supports the development of rich, mobile web, native, and hybrid apps. It contains an embedded version of MobileFirst Server, a bidirectional WYSIWYG editor, and standard web technologies and tools.

You use MobileFirst Studio to:

Develop rich HTML5, hybrid and native applications for all supported modern devices
Maximize code sharing by defining custom behavior and styling guidelines that match the target environment
Access device APIs by using native code or standard web languages over a uniform Apache Cordova bridge
Preview and manage applications by using MobileFirst Console
Create custom server-side Java code that can be used by MobileFirst adapters
Create, modify and test MobileFirst Java and JavaScript adapters
Use both native and standard web languages within the same application to achieve development efficiency and provide a rich user experience
Use third-party tools, libraries, and frameworks

Introduction to MobileFirst CLI

IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation provides a command-line interface tool to easily create and manage apps. The CLI lets you use your preferred text editors or alternative IDEs to create mobile applications.

The commands support tasks such as creating, adding, and configuring with the API library, adding the client-side properties file and performing the build and deploy of the application. From the command-line, you can create and deploy adapters, and test them locally. You can administer your project from CLI or REST services, or the Console, where you can control the local server and observe the logs.

##Tutorial *Tutorial

http://event.on24.com/clients/ibm/mobilefirst/build.html?

MobileFirst Platform Foundation

MobileFirst Quality Assurance

Cloudant Data Layer

MobileFirst Application Scanning

Presence Insights

https://mobilefirstplatform.ibmcloud.com/labs/

The following applications are used throughout the lab sessions for developers.

HybridWallet MobileFirst Platform Foundation 7.1 application. Based on Ionic framework. canteenPOS MobileFirst Platform Foundation 7.1 application. Based on Ionic framework. MFPcomradePOT MobileFirst Platform Foundation 7.1 application. Based on Ionic framework. Hello Paris MobileFirst Platform Foundation 7.0 application. Based on Ionic framework. More apps: (these apps are not supported)