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NotesIn9 119: XPages Mobile Development First Steps

In this episode Graham Acres comes back on to talk about getting started with Mobile Development with XPages Mobile Controls.

I’ve had some other getting started with mobile shows on NotesIn9, and even though they might seem similar on the surface, each contributor really does bring a different perspective and focus.  Graham does a great job with his presentation and I hope you like it.

I’m starting to hear form potential contributors that it’s getting harder to find a topic that hasn’t been covered. My response is always “So what?  Cover it again with yo’re own spin”.  It will be different.

This show also contains a short public service annoucement of two worthwhile causes.

Here are links for Graham’s cause:

Spark Ideas Presentation

Riding team site

And here’s a link for Troy Reimers son’s site.

Matt Reimers site

 

NotesIn9 is a free service.  So far it’s produced 119 shows, from 30 DIFFERENT contributors, for over 34 hours of content. There are some not insignificant costs involved and I fund this myself.  I don’t have advertisers or sponsors (yet) and I don’t ask for donations (yet).  So all I am asking at this time, is if NotesIn9 has provided value to you, then please consider a donation to either of these 2 community causes, or some other worthwile organization.

Thanks for your consideration.

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Mobile Notes In 9 XPages

NotesIn9 113: Learning to use XPages Mobile Controls

In this show NotesIn9 not only gets a SUPER new contributor, but it also gets it’s first Nerd Girl!  In today’s show Kathy Brown comes on to do a demo on using the XPages Mobile controls from the Extension Library / Update Pack 1.  These controls are also built into Domino 9.0.

In the demo she uses Designer to show you how to get started building a mobile app with the XPages Mobile Controls.

 

I hope you like it.

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Mobile Notes In 9 Podcast XPages

NotesIn9 112: XPages Mobile Controls Part 3

In this show Peter Presnell returns to conclude his 3 part series on XPages Mobile Controls.  Today he’ll cover outlines and Data Views.

I also talk about the current OpenNTF.org Appathon Contest.  There’s a lot of prize money available so be sure to check that out as well.

 

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Mobile Podcast XPages

NotesIn9 111: Mobile Controls Part 2

Peter Presnell comes back  today with Part 2 of his series on XPages Mobile controls.  In this show he’ll go through all the current controls provided with Ext. Library / UpdatePack / Designer 9 and define what they are and go through their key properties.

 

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Mobile Notes In 9 Podcast XPages

NotesIn9 110: Mobile Controls Part 1

NotesIn9 is back!!  Yay!

In today’s show, Peter Presnell, a past contributor comes on to start a 3 part series on Mobile controls.  In Part 1 he will give us a very basic introduction to the concepts around the mobile controls.  In Part 2 he’ll go through each design element.

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Mobile XPages

Next jQuery Mobile Hurdle

Ok, so I recently blogged about a problem getting jQuery Mobile working with XPages in Domino 9.0.  There was a lot of good idea’s and comments on that and I appreciated them all very much.  It turns out the best solution was provided by Sven Hasselbach with this post.

Now I already starting going down the Twitter Bootstrap path, which I was really liking, but I decided to take another look at jQuery Mobile.  And when I say “I decided to take another look at jQuery Mobile” what I mean is that Declan Lynch wanted to take a look at jQuery Mobile and drug me back kicking and screaming.  haha

So anyway, in no short order Declan had mobilized an internal app and I was playing with footers which can’t easily be done with XPages Mobile controls and working on a custom control for the header, content, and footer.  Just trying to get a feel for it really.

The first thing I really tried to do was get a feel for how viewScope might work.  Unlike Mobile Controls, where you work with Virtual pages, jQuery Mobile lets you work with real XPages.  I like that so much better!  Anyway, the first thing I tried to do is just put a computed field bound to viewScope and a button to update viewScope with the current time. Now the button is a normal XPages core control and I just wanted to do a partial refresh.

Clicking the button did nothing.  Tried partial refresh, tried full refresh. Nothing worked.  I didn’t even see any traffic from the browser.

I did some poking around for an answer, but not a lot.  So I thought I’d just post out here looking for some overall getting started advice.  I liked what I saw of jQuery Mobile but I want to keep Dojo working so I can use XPages controls.

Anyone have any getting started advice?

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Mobile Podcast XPages

NotesIn9: 109 Selecting Multiple Documents with XPages Mobile Controls

This show starts my attempt at a little “XPages Mobile Madness”.  This is a new event for NotesIn9.  All it really means is I’m going to make a concerted effort to get a bunch of Mobile focused shows on.  I only have so many in my back pocket so I’m looking for help!

In today’s show I get another amazing contributor.  Richard Sharpe of Teamstudio comes on and shows us how to select multiple documents from a repeat control inside an XPages Mobile Controls Application.  Great stuff!

Note: I did a similar show to this way way back in NotesIn9 25.  In that show I demo’s how to select items in a repeat for a “Normal” XPages application. So if interested in this for a NON mobile solution then you might want to check that out.  http://notesin9.com/index.php/2011/04/01/notesin9-025-selecting-documents-from-a-repeat-control/

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Mobile XPages

jQuery Mobile Seems incompatible with XPages in Domino 9.0

So it’s no secret that I’m doing a lot of XPages Web Development for iPads and I have a complete love – hate relationship with XPages Mobile controls.  In some ways they’re great.  In some ways they are not so great at all.  Not all of that is XPages fault – though some is – but some of the problem is in the Dojo that drives the mobile controls.

So I really want to abandon Mobile Controls, if nothing else the whole single page App is just really really hard to debug.  If you navigate to a page you can’t EASILY view source for instance.  You need to catch it with a tool like firebug.

Anyway, so I found this project that I really wanted to use.  https://github.com/commadelimited/jQuery-Mobile-Bootstrap-Theme

In theory it’s a marriage of Twitter Bootstrap and a css “theme” that makes some elements look like you would on a mobile device.  Ideally I’d love to have the mobile look and feel since I think it’s easier for the users then a glorified web page, but I’m desperate to get to normal XPages and away from these virtual pages.  Even if the fancy transitions are lost I don’t really care any more.

So it seems it’s not just a CSS framework like I thought but it does require jQuery Mobile.  Ok – I gave it a try and guess what.  It didn’t work.  not at all.  The mobile goodies would NOT render!

Until I completely disabled Dojo!

Disabling Dojo is not an option for me.  I just can’t hand code all that stuff.  It’s not going to happen.  I’m going to be using XPages I want to USE XPages.  But why didn’t it work?  Well I had to turn to the jQuery Master himself – Mark Roden.  He took a look at it for me which I greatly appreaciated!

We’re not sure, but we think there’s a conflict between Dojo and jQuery Mobile with the “data-role” attribute.  I guess both frameworks make use of that and Dojo 1.8 grabs it first and shuts jQuery out. If I downgraded Dojo I BELIEVE it would work but that’s not an option for me.=

Apparantly I’m not the only one with this problem.

That’s what I think I know at least.  If anyone knows something else please chime in!

Personally I’m not sure what to do.  XPages Mobile controls are difficult and missing things like a bottom TabBar, though I believe the redPill company has solved that problem.  I believe Kendo UI uses virtual pages as well.  JQuery Mobile seems like you need to drop Dojo.

I think I might try the Twitter Bootstrap 3 Release Candidate.  Not really sure though.

Kinda annoying actually…

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Mobile Notes In 9 XPages

NotesIn9 108: XPages Mobile Controls Problem and Solution

This is a rush show.  I didn’t mean to make this show at this time, but it looks like I solved a problem that has been frustrating me for a while so I had to take a quick break and document it and get this out.

The problem is with trying to do a refresh in the onChange event of an edit control in the confines of XPages Mobile Controls.  I’ve done this before in a production app, but recently I tried making a new version of that app, starting from scratch, and I couldn’t get the same behavior.

Really really frustrating stuff.

Hopefully, if you’re working with Mobile controls this will help you.

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Mobile Notes In 9 Podcast

NotesIn9: 065 XPages Mobile Value Picker

In this show Paul Withers from Intec Systems comes back on to talk about Mobile Controls and picking values.