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Developing Force.com Apps Natively for iOS and Android
Dave Carroll: salesforce.com @dcarroll
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Three Ways to Target Mobile
Salesforce Moble Client– Mobilize any existing Force.com application
– No Coding*
– Combine standard layouts and Visualforce
Visualforce + HTML5– Custom user interface
– No app store hurdles
– Must be connected to internet
Mobile Toolkit– Take advantage of full device capabilities
– Can store data locally

Visualforce plus HTML 5
Native application on Force.com
Best way to “port” exitsting Visualforce app to device
Emerging standard for rich internet applications
HTML5 adoption varies per device
Demo

Database.com Mobile Toolkit Support
Coming
Soon

Mobile Toolkit Strategy
Native client wrappers for SOAP Web Services API– API is mature and reliable
– Toolkits are similar from one platform to another
– Provide easy native interface
REST API (in Pilot)– Tookit is essentially samples in the native language
– Illustrate best practices for device

Force.com Toolkit for iOS
Objective-C wrapper for
Force.com API
Keychain support
Async or Sync
Custom Parser– optimized for Force.com API
Open Source

Using the Force.com for iOS Toolkit
Download Toolkit zip
Add to xCode Project
Create Application

Demo – Git the code, build the app

Making Calls

Making Calls

Example

Distribution to Your Company
Generate “Enterprise Distribution Provisioning Profile”
Create your App Bundle
Distribute to your company
Install through iTunes

Force.com Toolkit for Android
Java wrapper for Force.com
API
Async or Sync
Custom Parser– optimized for Force.com API
Open Source

Using the Force.com for Android Toolkit
Download Toolkit zip
Add to Android Eclipse
Project
Create Application

Making Calls
Replace with Android Code

Making Calls
Replace with Android Code

Example
Replace with Android Tablet

Distribution to Your Company
Generate “Enterprise Distribution Provisioning Profile”
Create your App Bundle
Distribute to your company
Install through iTunesReplace with
Android Details

Mobile Toolkit Roadmap
Force.com Toolkit for iOS - available
Force.com Toolkit for Android – available
Force.com Tookit for BlackBerry – available
Force.com Toolkit for Windows Phone – Q1 2011

Thank You!

Resources
Developer Forcehttp://developer.force.com
GitHub Repohttp://github.com/developerforce
Dave CarrollDirector Developer Evangelism
iPhone Dev Centerhttp://developer.apple.com/iphone

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