IBM Worklight Mobile Application Development Essentials

Develop efficient mobile applications using IBM Worklight

Overview

• Develop Mobile Apps that can be deployed on multiple mobile platforms quickly and easily
• Build Enterprise mobile apps to ease data transactions and manipulation
• Create advanced modules for mobile Enterprise application

In Detail

IBM Worklight helps you extend your business to mobile devices. It is designed to provide an open, comprehensive platform to build, run, and manage HTML5, hybrid, and native mobile apps. IBM Worklight can help you reduce both app development and maintenance costs, improve time-to-market, and enhance mobile app governance and security. The best part of IBM Worklight is that it contains numerous built-in modules used for Mobile Development to extend the functionalities to facilitate users.

This book will help you understand the development of Enterprise Mobile applications by introducing you to IBM Worklight and helping you create your own mobile applications. By the time you are half-way down through the book, you will gain a clear understanding of mobile application Development development with a high level architecture. By the end of the book, you will have knowledge of the best practices for Mobile Application Development using IBM Worklight and this will help you to build an IBM Worklight mobile app from scratch.

The book covers the most efficient practices of utilization and will assist you in developing Mobile applications in a very short time. You will then learn about advanced level development, for example, WorkLight security mechanisms, customizations, and data handling. In conclusion, you will be guided through the advanced features of IBM Worklight, which will help you modernize your mobile application to its best potential.

What you will learn from this book

• Explore the different components of IBM WorkLight
• Install and set up the Worklight development environment to manage the application life cycle
• Use adapters to integrate client applications with back-end data services.
• Add the Android environment to a Worklight application
• Develop your own authentication to obtain efficient security in your developed application.
• Enhance your mobile app development skills with Worklight’s best practices

Approach

This book will guide you through the process of building an application and customizing it with the help of lucid instructions on development, configuration, and administration with a practical, step-by-step approach.

Who this book is written for

If you are a developer who wants to create mobile applications quickly, this is the book for you. Some basic knowledge about of web technologies and client -side languages such as JavaScript, CSS and HTML will serve you well.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Getting Started with IBM Worklight
Chapter 2: Installing Worklight
Chapter 3: Creating a Basic Worklight Application
Chapter 4: Customizing a Worklight Application
Chapter 5: Adding an Adapter
Chapter 6: Authentication and Security
Chapter 7: Advanced Features of IBM Worklight