ISV Beginners Guide to Building Salesforce1 Mobile Apps (October 14, 2014)
1. Beginner’s Guide to Building
Salesforce1 Mobile Apps
Douglas Rosenbaum
William Yeh
ISV Technical Evangelist
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3. 75B
connected
products
5B
smartphones
by 2017
1T
connected
Cloud sensors
4.5B
aggregated
users
Mobile
Connected
Social
Cloud
Dashboard
to our lives
Collaborate with
employees, partners,
and customers
Connect to your
data and apps
Connect to your products
and devices
Mobile is the Center of the Internet of Customers
4. Mobile is the Center of the Internet of Customers
600,000
500,000
400,000
Desktop
Mobile
Time Spent On the Internet
Minutes/month
Do More on Mobile
More Apps & Ecosystems
More Relevant
More Connected
Sept 2013 Jan 2014
5. 300 Salesforce1 Mobile Ready Apps and Counting…
• Expected by Salesforce Customers
• Don’t get left behind
6. What’s Holding ISV’s Back from Mobile?
• Reasons why ISV’s have yet to release a Mobile Version
• Will take too much time
• Lack of mobile resources
• Don’t know where to start
7. Mobile – It’s All About Options
Salesforce1 Mobile App Full HTML5/Hybrid Native Apps (ios/Android)
8. How to access Salesforce1 Mobile
Hybrid version Browser Mobile Browser
TIP: http://XXX.salesforce.com/one/one.app
9. Mobile Browser Support
• iOS
• Android
• Windows (Beta)
• Blackberry
• Good Access Secure Browser
11. Persona Use Case Limited Scope
• Who are the users?
• Who are not the users?
• What do they need to do?
• Where are mobile users?
• Micro moments
• Limited Fields
• Compliment Desktop
Let’s Get Started
• Delivery Driver • Update Delivery • Modify only, Mark Complete
12. Salesforce1 Mobile Tool belt:
ISV Integration Points:
• Left Nav
• Record Layouts
• Mobile Cards
• Actions
• Flexipages
• Visual Force Pages
• Canvas Apps
13. Mobile Navigation (aka Left Nav)
• Starting Point for Getting Around and Getting things done
• Feed, Recent Objects and Applications
• ISV IP
Your Application
– Your Custom Objects
– Your Applications
– Your Flexipages
Your Objects
– Your VF Pages
14. Compact Layout
• Salesforce1 Mobile View of Records
– Key Fields
– Information for the Mobile Use Case
15. Mobile Cards
• Salesforce1 Mobile View of Records
– Expanded Lookups
– Related Lists
– VF Cards
– Canvas Apps
16. Expanded Lookup
• Can be added to Mobile Cards
• Display information on related objects.
• Compact layout for the related object controls what
shows up
18. Actions
• Default
– Chatter Post
– New Contact
– New Event
– New Task
– Log a Call
– Update a record
• Your Custom Actions
19. Actions
• Quick
– Less is More
– Micro-moments
• Context Specific
– Personas
– Use Cases
– Location, Location, Location
20. Action Bar
• New with Winter ’15
• Includes record actions, publisher actions, buttons,
and chatter actions
• Custom Icons for your actions
• Actions are grouped by function
• Can have actions without Chatter
21. Row Actions
• New with Winter ‘15
• Record specific Actions from within the actual list
• On or about a specific record
22. Publisher Actions
VisualForce Action
Full Control
• Standard Actions
– Clicks, Not Code
• VF Actions
– Advanced Session
Standard Action
Clicks not Code
24. Flexi Pages
Between Page Layout and VF Pages
• Landing/Home page for an App
– Appears in Left Nav
• List Views
• Publisher Actions
• Report Chart
• VF Pages
25. Flexi Pages
Winter ‘15 Improvements
• Visual Force Components
• Lightning App Builder
– Drag and Drop Editor
29. Homework
• xxx.salesforce.com/one/one.app
– See how much of your app is there already
• Come up with a single use case
– What is the one thing my customer wants (or needs) to do in a micro moment?
30. Salesforce1 Mobile Resources
• Webinar: Intro to Salesforce1 Mobile App Development - Link
• Dreamforce Sessions – bit.ly/s1-df-sessions
• Developer Guide – bit.ly/s1-dev-guide
• Winter 15 Release Notes - Winter '15
• Actions Implementation Guide - Link
• Blogs:
– 6 things you need to know: bit.ly/s1-6-things
– Mobile cards: bit.ly/s1-mobile-cards
– App Boogie Fever: bit.ly/s1-boogie
• P.force.com/salesforce1 – everything you need to know in one place
31. Check out the new Partner Community
https://partners.salesforce.com/
32. Connect with Partners in the Partner Zone
The Westin Hotel, Market Street
2nd Floor – Metropolitan Ballroom
INNOVATE with the leading technology
• Demos of new Salesforce technology
CONNECT with members of the partner community
• Partner Community Theater
• Networking areas
• Welcome reception and daily lunch service
GROW your business with resources
• 70+ partner-specific sessions
• ‘Ask the Experts’ consultation stations