Mobile Developer WeekSalesforce Platform Mobile Services

John StevensonDeveloper Evangelist@jr0cket

About Me

• Developer Evangelist for force.com & Heroku

• @jr0cket

• blog.jr0cket.co.uk

• developer.force.com

London Salesforce Developers

• Monthly social meetings with short talks (~20 mins)

• Evening tech workshops

• Hack the force.com

• Bi-monthly hack day – www.HackTheTower.co.uk

What Mobiles apps have you developed?

Mobile Development Options

Developing Mobile Apps with Salesforce Data

• Salesforce Touch• Via the browser or mobile app

• Native/Hybrid (Mobile SDK)• Mobile SDK 2 to be released soon

• HTML5 & JavaScript frameworks• Deployed as Heroku app or VisualForce page

Bridging the gap between mobile and enterprise data

Customer DataModern Mobile Developers

Building Mobile Apps With Legacy Platforms Is Difficult

Idea

Buy & Setup

Hardware

Install Complex Software

Define User

Access

Build & Test

Security

Make It Mobile &

Social

Setup Reporting & Analytics

Build App with Legacy

Frameworks

Months to Years

MobileApp

Salesforce Platform:

The Fastest Path From Idea to Connected Mobile App

Idea

Build App with Modern Frameworks

Connect Customer &

Business Data

ConnectedMobile Apps

Introducing New Salesforce Platform Mobile Services

Recommendations

Mobile Services

HTML5, Hybrid, Native

Drag & Drop Development

Identity and Security Social FilesDatabase Mobile SDK

Developer Mobile Packs

Connected Social Any DeviceTrusted

New Mobile Services

• Mobile SDK 2.0

• Mobile Accelerator Program

• Mobile Packs

Mobile SDK 2.0

• Faster and more modularized architecture

• New entity frameworks for easy data access and offline

storage

• Identity for employee and customer facing apps

• Connect Salesforce data with any native existing app

API WrappersInteract with Salesforce REST APIs  with popular mobile platform languages

Secure Offline StorageStore business data on a device with enterprise-class encryption

Push NotificationsDispatch real-time alerts directly to mobile devices

OAuth2Secure authentication and refresh token management

App ContainerEmbed HTML5 apps inside a container to access powerful native device functionality

http://developer.force.com/mobilesdk

Mobile Accelerator Program

• Provide rapid, high-touch Mobile Services training

for partners• Appirio, Accenture, Bluewolf, Aditi, Tquila, Deloitte, Detroit

Labs

• Provides companies with qualified app building

partners

Designed for leading consulting partners, systems integrators, and ISVs

Mobile Packs

• Using modern JavaScript web app frameworks

• Simplify data access using ForceTK.js

• Simplifying oAuth implementation

Current Mobile Packs

• First of many mobile packs and samples

• Open to the developer community

Demo

jQuery Mobile Example – Script Includes

jQuery Mobile Example – body & pages

https://github.com/jr0cket/jquery-mobile-template

jQuery Mobile aspects

• Unlike HTML pages, a jQuery file can contain multiple

pages• <div data-role “list-view”> … </div>

• <div data-role “details-view”> … </div>

• VisualForce pages • Place all pages in once visual force page unless you get

performance issues

• jQuery mobile will only add the first page from any externally

linked files (jQuery Mobile limitation)

Book: jQuery Mobile – Up and running

Next Steps

• Try out the mobile packs yourself• Gain confidence in building mobile apps

• Extend and create new packs• For your own needs

• To share with the developer community

Thank you.

Any questions?

@forcedotcom@jr0cket

developer.force.com

blog.jr0cket.co.uk