This session was meant to introduce the force.com Mobile SDK to all attendees of the Jaipur Developer User Group. This was a part of the global Salesforce Mobile Dev Week - http://www2.developerforce.com/mobile/developer-week

1. Introduction to force.com Mobile
SDK – Native & Hybrid Development
Gaurav Kheterpal,
Head – Mobility, Metacube
Gaurav.kheterpal@gmail.com
@gauravkheterpal

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3. Gaurav Kheterpal
Head – Mobility, Metacube
@gauravkheterpal

4. Agenda
§ Quick Poll
§ Introduction – Self
§ Why Mobile?
§ Introduction – force.com
§ Introduction – Mobile SDK
§ Mobile SDK – iOS
§ Why Hybrid?
§ Hands-On
§ Summary/ Q&A

5. Intro
• Engineering Post Graduate from BITS, Pilani (Not everybody
drops out J)
• Mobile + Web Developer With 13 Years of Industry
Experience (I’m getting old L)
• Started my journey with the ‘Ultimate Killer Mobile App’ (Any
guesses?)
• Speaker at Dreamforce 2012, Droidcon 2011 and 2012 and
several Mobile Monday events
• Keen Interest in Cross-Platform Frameworks such as
Titanium, PhoneGap, Sencha Touch and others

6. Why Mobile?
Source: Gartner Research; Smartphone, Tablet, and PC Forecast, December 2010.

7. We’re Living in the Post-PC Era
iPhone Revenue – Q1 ’12
$24.42 billion
TOTAL Microsoft Revenue – Q2 12
$20.89 billion
>

8. Info Workers Use Many Devices For Work & Personal
52% of information workers use 3 or more devices
60% of these devices are used for both work and personal use
Source: Forrester Blogs: Why Tablets Will Become Our Primary Computing Device, Frank Gillett, April 23, 2012

9. force.com Mobile SDK

10. force.com Mobile SDK – Getting Started
§ Git repos
• https://github.com/forcedotcom/SalesforceMobileSDK-iOS
• https://github.com/forcedotcom/SalesforceMobileSDK-Android
§ Tools
• iOS – git, Xcode
• Android – git, Eclipse

11. force.com Mobile SDK (iOS) – Installation
$ git clone
https://github.com/forcedotcom/SalesforceMobileSDK
-iOS.git
$ cd SalesforceMobileSDK-iOS
$ ./install.sh

12. force.com Mobile SDK - oAuth
Remote
Application
Force.com
Platform
Sends App Credentials
User logs in Token sent to
Callback
Confirms token
Send access token
Maintain session with
refresh token

13. force.com Mobile SDK - oAuth

14. force.com Mobile SDK - CRUD

15. Why Hybrid?
• Write once, run anywhere
• Reuse existing web development skills
• Visualforce, HTML5, JavaScript, CSS3 etc.
• Access native device functionality
• App Store distribution (unlike web apps)

16. Why not Hybrid?
• May not be as fast as native apps
• Limited support for multi-touch gestures
• Cannot do advanced graphics like WebGL

17. How Does Hybrid Work?
The JavaScript Native ‘Bridge’ =
Custom WebView
Call JS from native code
Call native code from JS
…

18. Hybrid - PhoneGap or Cordova?
• Cordova is an Apache Open Source project
• PhoneGap is a distribution of Cordova distributed by Adobe
• Currently, PhoneGap and Cordova are one and the same
• Mobile SDK uses Cordova

19. Hybrid - What Libraries Can You Use?
• XUI
• Zepto
• jQuery
• Dojo
DOM
• jQuery Mobile
• Sencha Touch
• Dojo Mobile
• GloveBox
• Ekiben
© http://www.slideshare.net/davyjones/html5-is-the-future-of-mobile-phonegap-takes-you-there-today
GUI
• QUnit
• Jasmine
• DominatorJS
• ThumbsJs
• Mocha
Testing
Any JS/CSS library/framework of your choice

20. Mobile SDK Integration Opportunities
§ Mobile SDK vs. Other Approaches
• zkSforce
• REST API

21. Learning Path
§ Mobile SDK GitHub Repo
§ DFC (http://wiki.developerforce.com)
§ Mobile SDK Workbook
§ Force.com Mobile Discussion Boards

22. Gaurav Kheterpal
Head – Mobility, Metacube
Gaurav.kheterpal@gmail.com
@gauravkheterpal