Mobile Development for the IBM i

For the PHP demo
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Password: plex2e2011
Mobile Development for the i
Metro Midrange Systems Association
IBM Innovation Center
Dallas, July 2011

What are we talking about
Basic Principles
Why Mobile?
Mobile App Design
Using Frameworks for the i
Reduce complexity
Enable multiple devices
Dive into some code

CM First Group
Founded in 1998, offices in Switzerland, Italy, USA
IBM i/z Modernization Focus
Mobile/Web presentations
PHP, Java, CA Technologies products
Enterprise JavaScript: Dojo, Sencha Touch
Code Migration and BPM
Expert Training / Mentoring Resources

Speaker Bios
John Rhodes – CTO, USA
Experience with IBM i back to the days of S/36, S/38
Architect and Principal Consultant with Kraft, Sterling Software, CA Technologies
Mark Schroder – Development Director
IBM i developer for 20 years
Health Care, Life Insurance, Food Industry
Experience with PHP, JavaScript, Java, Portals

Wireless Access
For the PHP demo
Hotspot: CAPlex2E2
Password: plex2e2011

Mobile is the new internet

CIO’s Checklist for 2011Source Gartner October 2010
“Companies should factor these top 10 technologies in their strategic planning process by asking key questions and making deliberate decisions about them during the next two years,”
David Cearley, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner

StatisticsThe world is going mobile
50 millioniPhones sold to date
200,000Android devices sold each day
8.5 million iPads sold to date
70 million tablets predicted by the end of 2012
2/3 of the Fortune 100 have started deploying iPads for Enterprise use

Mobile Design

From i to mobile – different principles

Usability is a different animalPrincipals
Blurry Vision
Get it done quick
Double Tap, Pinch, Twist, What?
Clumsy Fingers

Designing Mobile AppsPrincipals
Simplicity
Ease
Elegance
Your App Doesn’t have to do it all

Navigation ModelsPrincipals
Combine

Example of Redesign

How do I get it done on the i?By using Mobile TechnologyFrameworks

Creating enterprise mobile appsA “simple” 2 step process
Android
Download the Android SDK
Learn java really well
Wrapper your existing business logic
Learn how to create Android UI’s
Hope to pass security audit
…
Apple
Buy some macs
Install the Apple SDK
Learn Objective C
Wrapper your existing business logic
Learn how to create iPhone/iPad UI’s
Hope to pass security audit
…

The result…There must be a better way
Steep learning curve
Multiple code bases
Disconnected teams
= higher cost and lower productivity

A better wayUse Frameworks to speed development
Development Framework
Java
Java Script Device
Layer
iOS
Device OS
Web App Server
PHP

Technology Framework - Sencha Touch/Phonegap
Covers 93% of mobile traffic – Apple, Android, BB6, …
HTML 5, CSS3
Local Storage
Media/Geo

What about hardware?
Camera
Compass
Accelerometer
App Store
Native Access

PhoneGap for Eclipse / XCode

Business App Frameworks
WebClient i+ - CA Plex + Java
Model based development
cmPower – PHP
Open Source
Both Frameworks use Sencha Touch + PhoneGap technology

WebClient i+ Frameworkhttp://mobileportal.cmfirsttech.com/Plex2EWeb/wcshttp://mobileportal.cmfirsttech.com/UH/wcs

CA Plex / WebClient
Plex RPG IV or any i5/OS programs
WPF
WCF
Java
Plex Desktop Clients
MFC C++
Plex Java
OLE DB
WebClient i+

Mobile template library
Web Templates
Mobile Templates
Eclipse
Plug-in
(Builder)

PHP Frameworkhttp://10.0.1.151/hello

cmPower – PHP
HTML, JavaScript, CSS

Green screen to Mobile – final “web 2.0”
The result will be a complete info about contactwe can test on the emulator environment
click on contact tosee detail of our
Data store and
Geolocation
native function
That's ALL !

Interested?

Available Information
http://cmfirstgroup.com
Software whitepapers
Software downloads
cmPower - Open Source software
Contact us – we are a short drive away
john.rhodes@cmfirstgroup.com
mark.schroeder@cmfirstgroup.com

SenchaCon 2011 - Austin
Learn about technology
Special meetings on
PHP
WebClient
Develop Demo App
Sencha Hackathon
CMFirst Hackathon

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