Installation Steps
Install JDeveloper 11.1.2.3.0 from Oracle Technology Network
After installing JDeveloper, go to Help menu and select "Check For Updates" and find the ADF Mobile extension and install this. It will require you restart JDeveloper
For iOS development, be on a Mac and have Xcode installed. (Currently only Xcode 4.4 is officially supported. Xcode 4.5 support is coming soon)
For Android development, have the Android SDK installed.
In the JDeveloper Tools menu, select "Preferences". In the Preferences dialog, select ADF Mobile. You can expand it to select configure your Platform preferences for things like the location of Xcode and the Android SDK.
In your /jdeveloper/jdev/extensions/oracle.adf.mobile/Samples folder you will find a PublicSamples.zip. Unzip this into the Samples folder so you have all the projects ready to go.
Open each of the sample application's .JWS file to open the corresponding workspace. Then from the "Application" menu, select "Deploy" and then select the deployment profile for the platform you wish to deploy to. Try deploying to the simulator/emulator on each platform first because it won't require signing. Note: If you wish to deploy to the Android emulator, it must be running before you start the deployment.
Sample Application Details
| Recommended Order of Use | Application Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | HelloWorld | The "hello world" application for ADF Mobile, which demonstrates the basic structure of the framework. This basic application has a single application feature that is implemented with a local HTML file. Use this application to ascertain that the development environment is set up correctly to compile and deploy an application. See also Section 4.2.2, "What Happens When You Create an ADF Mobile Application." |
| 2 | CompGallery | This application is meant to be a runtime application and not necessarily to review the code, though that is available. It serves as an introduction to the ADF Mobile AMX UI components by demonstrating all of these components. Using this application, you can change the attributes of these components at runtime and see the effects of those changes in real time without recompiling and redeploying the application after each change. See generally Chapter 8, "Creating ADF Mobile AMX User Interface." |
| 3 | LayoutDemo | This application demonstrates the user interface layout and shows how to create the various list and button styles that are commonly used in mobile applications. It also demonstrates how to create the action sheet style of a popup component and how to use various chart and gauge components. See Section 8.3, "Creating and Using UI Components" and Section 8.5, "Providing Data Visualization." Note: |
| 4 | JavaDemo | This application demonstrates how to bind the user interface to Java beans. It also demonstrates how to invoke EL bindings from the Java layer using the supplied utility classes. See also Section 8.10, "Using Event Listeners" and Section 9.2, "Understanding EL Support." |
| 5 | Navigation | This application demonstrates the various navigation techniques in ADF Mobile, including bounded task flows and routers. It also demonstrates the various page transitions. See also Section 7.2, "Creating Task Flows." Note: |
| 6 | LifecycleEvents | This application implements lifecycle event handlers on the ADF Mobile application itself and its embedded application features. This application shows you where to insert code to enable the applications to perform their own logic at certain points in the lifecycle. See also Section 5.6, "About Lifecycle Event Listeners." Note: |
| 7 | DeviceDemo | This application shows you how to use the DeviceFeatures data control to expose such device features as geolocation, e-mail, SMS, and contacts, as well as how to query the device for its properties. See also Section 9.5, "Using the DeviceFeatures Data Control." Note: |
| 8 | GestureDemo | This application demonstrates how gestures can be implemented and used in ADF Mobile applications. See also Section 8.4, "Enabling Gestures." |
| 9 | StockTracker | This application demonstrates how data change events use Java to enable data changes to be reflected in the user interface. It also has a variety of layout use cases, gestures and basic mobile patterns. See also Section 9.7, "Data Change Events." |
| 10 | HR | This human resources application is a CRUD application that demonstrates a variety of real-world application techniques. It uses a local SQLite database to store its data. The application persists the data between each startup and is based on the default HR schema that ships with all Oracle databases. See generally Chapter 11, "Using the Local Database." By providing layouts for both iPad and iPhone, this application demonstrates how different types of user interfaces can share the same data model. There are a variety of other patterns demonstrated in the application as well. |
| 11 | Skinning | This application demonstrates how developers can skin their applications and add their own unique look and feel by either overriding the supplied style sheets or extending them with their own style sheets. This application also shows how skins control the styling of components based on the type of device. See also Section 5.11, "Skinning ADF Mobile Applications." |
| 12 | PrefDemo | This application demonstrates application-wide and application feature-specific user setting pages. See generally Chapter 13, "Enabling User Preferences" |