Back in February I had the opportunity to present “Enabling the Next Generation of Apps with IBM MobileFirst” at the DevNexus developer conference in Atlanta. It was a great event, packed with lots of useful content. Luckily for everyone who wasn’t able to attend, the organizers recorded most of the sessions – which have just been […]
Category Archives: Worklight
Serving Data to the Apple Watch with IBM MobileFirst
This is the third entry in my series on powering Apple Watch apps using IBM MobileFirst. In the first post I covered setting up the project, remote logging, and analytics. In the second post I covered bidirectional communication between the WatchKit extension and host app (not really MobileFirst, but still applicable). In this post we’ll […]
Using Code Blocks Instead of Delegates with IBM MobileFirst Platform in Native iOS Apps
We’ve been able to write native iOS apps leveraging the scaffolding and analytics of the IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation Server for a while now. This was first introduced way back when MobileFirst still went by the Worklight name, serveral versions ago. As I would write apps, one thing I really wanted was to use code […]
Powering Apple Watch Apps with IBM MobileFirst – Part 1
This is the first entry in a multipart series on powering native iPhone and Apple Watch apps using the IBM MobileFirst Platform. In this entry we will cover how to setup the MobileFirst Platform for use within Apple WatchKit apps and leverage the operational analytics and remote logging features. So, let’s first take a look […]
Updated: Parallax Effects in Hybrid/Web Apps
A while back I wrote about adding parallax effects to your HTML/JS experiences to make them feel a bit richer and closer to a native experience. I’ve just added this subtle (key word *subtle*) effect to a new project and made a few changes I wanted to share here. If you are wondering what I […]
IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation v7.0 Now Available!
It’s here! IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation v7.0 is now available. Get the FREE developer edition here, and the v7.0 docs here. This release features: Integrated single-node Cloudant (NoSQL) DB. Detection for tampered/hacked apps Code obfuscation in hybrid apps Enhanced data adapter services REST services with analytics for all data adapter procedures MobileFirst platform security for […]
Why Your Enterprise Needs To Be Ready For Mobile
I recently attended the IBM InterConnect conference, and it was great to be there presenting IBM MobileFirst and engaging with our clients and partners. While there, I also took part in the “Ignite” presentation series. If you aren’t familar with Ignite, each presenter has 20 slides, with the slides auto-advancing every 15 seconds. That gives […]
Getting Started with IBM Bluemix Mobile Services (MBaaS)
I recently wrote an overview of IBM Bluemix’s Mobile Back-end as a Service offerings. I wanted to elaborate on the offerings, plus provide in-depth technical and implementation details, so I decided to produce this 5 part video series on Getting Started with IBM Bluemix Mobile Services. This post specifically covers native iOS, though there are also Android and […]
MBaaS – IBM Mobile Cloud Services, Bluemix & MobileFirst
MBaaS, or Mobile Backend as a Service, seems to be a particularly hot topic these days. MBaaS generally refers to backend services for mobile applications that provides data storage, user management, push notifications, and other pertinent mobile APIs. This is more than just “Cloud Services” which more generally refer to a scalable virtual cluster of computing […]
Unified Multi-Platform Push Notifications with IBM MobileFirst
Push notifications, love them or hate them, are everywhere and there’s no getting around it. Push notifications are short messages that can be sent to mobile devices regardless of whether the apps are actually running. They can be used to send reminders, drive engagement with the mobile app, notify completion of long running processes, and […]