Questions tagged [ibm-mobilefirst]

IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation (formerly IBM Worklight Foundation) helps organizations extend their business to mobile devices. It provides a mobile application platform to build, run and manage mobile applications.

IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation -- Formerly known as IBM Worklight Foundation -- helps you extend your business to mobile devices. It is designed to provide an open, comprehensive platform to build, test, run and manage native, hybrid and mobile web apps. IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation can help reduce both app development and maintenance costs, improve time-to-market and enhance mobile app governance and security.

Searching Stack Overflow using the old #worklight tag will also show a wealth of historical questions & answers.


IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation is comprised of five components:

  • IBM MobileFirst Studio offers leading tools for native and hybrid development that help maximize code reuse and accelerate development.

  • IBM MobileFirst Server is mobile-optimized middleware that serves as a gateway between applications, back-end systems and cloud-based services.

  • IBM MobileFirst Device Runtime Components offer runtime client application program interfaces (API) designed to enhance security, governance and usability.

  • IBM MobileFirst Application Center enables you to set up an enterprise app store that manages the distribution of production-ready mobile apps.

  • IBM MobileFirst Console is an administrative GUI designed to provide real-time operational analytics for the server, adapters, applications and push services to help you manage, monitor and instrument mobile apps.


With IBM MobileFirst Platform you can:

  • Support multiple mobile operating environments and devices with the simplicity of a single, shared code base.

  • Utilize your preferred development tools with the command line interpreter for MobileFirst Platform developers.

  • Connect and synchronize with enterprise data, applications and cloud services, including IBM BlueMix mobile services.

  • Safeguard mobile security at the device, application, data and network layer.

  • Manage your mobile app portfolio from one central interface.

Source: IBM MobileFirst Platform

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Disable text selection on input fields

I am developing a Hybrid application using IBM Worklight, HTML5, CSS3 and javascript. Is there any possible way to disable text selection on input fields? I have a username and password field on the screen and want to disable the user from selecting…
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IBM Worklight - How to disable Direct Update?

I would like to disable Direct Update. Is it possible? With connectOnStartup = false not work.
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IBM Worklight - Include a JavaScript library on the server side

I'm building a mobile application using IBM Worklight. In an adapter, I need to use some functionality which is provided by a third party JavaScript file. I want to know if it's possible to include such a file on the server? If not, what is the…
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How to set Android SDK target in Worklight Studio

I just installed a new Worklight 6.1 environment (Studio). I got a brand new Eclipse 4.3.1 and installed Worklight 6.1 plugin on top of that. Then I downloaded Android SDK and Tools. When I created my first sample project and added Android…
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IBM Worklight 6.1 - Adding the optional Analytics feature has no effect

I have installed the Eclipse Juno SR2 client for Worklight 6.1 EE and when I add the optional analytics feature to the application-descriptor.xml file, I do not see any Tealeaf libraries added to the project. I am running on Mac v10.9. Any ideas?
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Worklight Native iOS App terminating with NSRangeException a few minutes after successful connect

I'm using Worklight 6.0.0.1 + 9-26 iFix. A few minutes after a successful call to do a Worklight Connect, our app crashes with this error which looks like it may involve a JSON parsing problem from Worklight: *** Terminating app due to uncaught…
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How to implement OAUTH 2.0 in IBM Worklight 6.0

In my app I have implemented Login module auth security by implementing security realms. But i am thinking of implementing a OAUTH2.0 authentication where user will be authenticated once I will get a token and re-validate than on app starts. So…
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IBM Worklight 6.0 - "Received bad token from client" error occurs frequently

I have a Worklight Application with an HTTP adapter which connects to another application in order to retrieve data to be displayed on a mobile device (testing with Android 4.0.4 at the moment). When the application starts, I invoke three procedures…
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HTTP Adapter Error "Runtime: Failed to parse JSON string"

I am using IBM Worklight Studio, and trying to create HTTP Adapter which retrieve JSON object from external http server. When I just access target http server with HTTP Get access(with browser, for example), I know their response is like following…
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Worklight: Performance of calling java static method vs object creation

I need suggestions either I make custom java method as static OR accessing via java object from an Adapter? My scenario is: thousands of users are making transactions and each user is accessing the same method again & again and just changing some…
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JSONStore Worklight - Size Limit

JSONStore provides us with a great way to sync data with a server and track changes a user makes while offline. Is there a limit as to how much information could be saved on JSONStore? I found that Webkit database has a limit of 5 MB where as…
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IBM WorkLight application is not lightweight

I'm developing a hybrid app using worklight, and so far I just have couple of screens in my app. But when I run this app in my Android phone, if I check the apk file it's size is showing as 4.4 MB! I'm not even 20% through my app development and…
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Generating MobileFirst ID Token for non-mobile client

Objective is to invoke MobileFirst adapter APIs from non-mobile client. Mobile first platform version: 7.1.0.00.20180425-1124 Article Exposing mobile services to non-mobile (confidential) clients, helped me generate access_token. I am able to invoke…
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Getting Error saying "JNI DETECTED Error in application" in Pixel 3

I have added 64 Bit Libraries mentioned by IBM in https://mobilefirstplatform.ibmcloud.com/blog/2019/05/24/Google-Play-64-bit-requirement/ But getting error when launching App in Pixel 3 with Android 9 and trying to initialise JSON Store. I am using…
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Proguard warnings when doing android release build with MobileFirst 8.0 IF201804051553

I recently upgraded my hybrid MobileFirst app's mfp plugins to 8.0.20180408, and my cordova-android plugin to 7.0.0. When I did a debug build of the app, the build succeeded, but the moment I did a release build (signed apk) the process generated a…