This is the beginning of a multipart series on developing Windows 8 mobile apps for Salesforce.com with the user interface design language that was–until recently–referred to as Metro UI. Though the name is now Windows 8 UI, the typography-based design principles are the same, and you can read more about them in my April 30 … read the whole post
The Secret Cost of Mobile
By: | November 6, 2012 |
A Goodbye Note To An Ex Lover There is obviously a lot of press and research about how smartphones and tablets are changing industries. We are fortunate enough to be at the forefront of this trend and see amazing changes every day in the clients we help “mobilize”. However, as I look at the broader … read the whole post
Mobile Device Management and Enterprise Application Development
By: | September 25, 2012 | Leave a comment
With Gartner reporting that the top three technology agendas for CIOs globally are analytics, mobile, and the cloud, Tech Republic reporting that iOS is now as secure as Blackberry, and Forbes saying “the sin of ignoring mobile will not go unpunished” if you aren’t considering how to roll out mobile devices and apps for your … read the whole post
When To Look At Doing Custom Mobile Apps with Salesforce.com
By: | August 7, 2012 | (2) Comments
Salesforce.com provides multiple ways to connect into and extract data for Mobile Apps. The three options are: The standard salesforce.com Mobile app The newly announced Touch Interface The Salesforce.com SDK Deciding whether to develop a custom app or use an out of the box solution such as Touch or the standard mobile app can be … read the whole post
The Future of Mobile Technology: Augmented Reality
By: | June 29, 2012 | (1) Comment
Recently I was asked to talk about the future of mobile technology and consumer experiences for some internal meetings. As I prepared and began to envision the future, I couldn’t help but think of the integral role mobile devices have in our lives today. The ability to use my Droid 3 to make a phone … read the whole post
Fluid Mobile HTML5 Design and Development
By: | June 4, 2012 | (2) Comments
In the world of print publication, laying out a design starts with a canvas that has a known height and width. If an agency is putting together an advertisement for a magazine, and they know that they are (hypothetically) designing for a page that is 8 inches wide and 10 inches high, assuming a standard … read the whole post
Codesign: Re-Signing an IPA between Apple accounts
By: | May 17, 2012 | (15) Comments
Since much of the iOS development work we do is for clients who are developing apps to distribute internally with an In House Mobile Provisioning Profile using their Enterprise Distribution Certificates, and not all of them want to share those files outside of their organization, we frequently need a way to send them the IPA … read the whole post
Mobilizing Your Workforce
By: | May 2, 2012 | (2) Comments
Many of our customers ask us about mobilizing their workforce. In fact, 80 percent of Model Metrics customers include smartphone and tablet adoption plans in their cloud deployment initiatives. Most need guidance on where to start – from devices to development technology to application design. Model Metrics helps enterprises develop mobile roadmaps to ensure a successful mobile cloud deployment.
Developer’s First Look at Windows 8 Metro
By: | April 30, 2012 | Leave a comment
With all the recent buzz around Windows 8 RT for ARM and the Metro interface, I wanted to do a bit of a first-look at developing for the Windows 8 Metro interface. To get started, I thought I’d take a look at getting the Windows 8 Consumer Preview installed on an actual tablet, so I … read the whole post
Storing Data Offline with Salesforce Mobile SDK SmartStore
By: | April 19, 2012 | (8) Comments
Storing Data Offline with Salesforce Mobile SDK SmartStore Say you’re writing a “hybrid” mobile app for iOS and Android using PhoneGap (“Callback” or “Cordova”) and you want to store data locally. Your choices are kind of limited. You could, for instance, use WebSQL, which has been implemented in WebKit for a while now and is … read the whole post
Using XMLHttpRequest2 in iOS 5 or Android OS 3 to download binary files using HTML5/Phonegap
By: | November 19, 2011 | Leave a comment
One of the things added to Safari and UIWebView in iOS5 is support for XMLHttpRequest 2, which according to W3C adds new features “such as cross-origin requests, progress events, and the handling of byte streams for both sending and receiving”. As part of the last bit of that, it’s now possible to set the responseType to arraybuffer, which is … read the whole post
Ditching the Laptop and all in With iPad 2
By: | October 10, 2011 | (1) Comment
I was meaning to write this blog in March 2012, one year after ditching my laptop and moving to the iPad2 for daily business use. With the passing of the amazing, iconic, heroic, innovative (stick in your adjective) Steve Jobs, now seems like a good day to accelerate the timeline and get my thoughts out … read the whole post
Mobile Development Considerations with HTML5
By: | September 6, 2011 | Leave a comment
Lately, a lot of my conversations with our clients have been on what technology should be used for a mobile project. Leveraging HTML5 as a technology for creating mobile apps has been coming up a lot more frequently. It shows how the industry is trying to move towards a common solution to resolve the cross … read the whole post
oAuth 2.0 for Salesforce.com
By: | August 21, 2011 | (11) Comments
At this point in time, we’ve implemented the oAuth 2.0 User-Agent flow and the Refresh Token flow for iOS, Android, and Flex/AS3. I figure that makes us as much an expert at doing this as anybody, so I thought I’d take a moment to describe some of the details. First off, the reason you want … read the whole post
Model Mobile
By: | July 26, 2011 | Leave a comment
This brief video provides a short overview of our mobile capabilities and what our 2GO mobile platform provides to help accelerate project success and lower risk for our clients.
iOS Enterprise MDM Configuration Capabilities
By: | April 6, 2011 | (4) Comments
Thought I’d put together an easy to reference list of the various things that can be configured by an enterprise Mobile Device Management administrator for iOS: Password Required No Repeating/Ascending/Descending Characters Require Alphanumeric Minimum Password length Minimum number of non-alphanumeric characters required Maximum password age (1-730 days) Auto-lock (1-5 minutes) Password History (1-50 Passwords) … read the whole post