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Creating a Mobile App from Developer Studio
Creating a Mobile App from Developer Studio
You can begin to create a Mobile App in Developer Studio when you first create an
OpenEdge Mobile project using the New OpenEdge Project wizard, or after the
project is created using the New Mobile App dialog. The basic procedure for these
tasks is similar either way. This procedure basically creates the folder for the Mobile
App HTML and JavaScript files in the Mobile project from which to publish them as a
Mobile Web App on an OE Web Server or to export them in a WAR file for deployment
to an external Web server. This location is shared with the Progress OpenEdge Mobile
App Builder, where it saves the files that you create in the Mobile App Builder project.
For information on how to create a Mobile App as part of creating a new OpenEdge
Mobile project, see Chapter 3, “Creating Mobile Services.”
To create a new Mobile App for an existing Mobile project:
1. From the Project Explorer view, right-click on an OpenEdge project for which you
want to define the Mobile App, then select New→ Mobile App on the context
menu. The New Mobile App dialog appears.
2. Here, you can:
• Enter the Mobile App name. Note that any name you choose for a Mobile App
must be unique across all projects and workspaces of Developer Studio.
• Change the Mobile App project in which it is created.
• Specify a template with which to build the Mobile App. The Mobile App type
label only identifies the template used in Mobile App Builder to design the
pages of the App for a given general device category (such as a phone or
tablet) or for an application example (for example, a Twitter or weather app).
It has nothing to do with the type of deployment for the Mobile App (such as
a Mobile Web App a Mobile Native App).
• Select a backup from which to create the Mobile App.
• Select an OE Web Server instance (or instances) on which to publish the
Mobile App. The installed default is restmgr1.
3. If you have not yet entered Progress ID user credentials in Developer Studio, this
page displays an error message reminding you to do so, and also provides a link
to the Mobile App Builder preferences page to do so. You only need to provide
these user credentials if you intend to use the Mobile App Builder to create your
Mobile Apps. If you use other HTML and JavaScript coding tools, such as the
JSDT in Developer Studio, you do not need to enter any user credentials. For
more information on the JSDT, see the JavaScript Development Guide in the
Developer Studio online help. If you have not yet configured an external HTML5
Web browser to run the Mobile App Builder or to test Mobile Apps, you can also
click a link to the Web Browser preferences page to do that.
4. When you click Finish, Developer Studio creates an entry for the new Mobile App
in the Mobile Apps folder of the project. If you are set up to build the App in Mobile
App Builder, the configured external browser opens to the Progress ID login page,
where you can login to open the Mobile App Builder, where you will find a new
project for the Mobile App.
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