Salesforce Mobile

Jacksonville Salesforce Developer User Group

December 2018

Relaunching JaxMUG

• Looking for monthly meetings
• Anything iOS, Android
• Native Development
• Cordova/Hybrid
• React Native
• Flutter
• Xamarin/Visual Studio

Why Mobile?

• Billions of devices Worldwide
• More people access internet over phones than desktops
• Salesforce users are mobile
• Field sales common use case

Mobile options

• Salesforce App
• Branded Apps
• Native
• Hybrid
• React Native

Salesforce App

• Salesforce Mobile client
• Hybrid remote
• More native features
• Einstein and Siri
• use lightning components
• poor offline experience

Native Apps

• SalesforceMobileSDK Android and iOS
• SwiftySalesforce
• OAuth Login
• APIs for querying sObjects
• Build Native Views
• Store on Device and on Salesforce
• Written in Objective-C, Swift and Java
• SalesforceMobileSDK @ version 7.0 beta

Hybrid Apps

• Build Apps with HTML and JavaScript
• OAuth
• Hybrid Local
• Hybrid Remote
• Can store on Device and in Salesforce
• Cordova WebView part of Hybrid API

Hybrid Local

• Initial content and code stored on the Device
• Apps are like SPA (Single Page Applications)
• This approach allows syncing between device and Salesforce cloud

Hybrid Remote

• Content is stored on Salesforce
• Build your app using Lightning Pages and Components or Visual Force Pages
• Does not provide a syncing solution

React Native

• React Native Framework from Facebook
• These are actual Native applications
• Can build with JavaScript framework
• React Components built with SF Components

Frameworks

• SalesforceSDKCore
• SalesforceAnalytics
• SalesforceHybridSDK
• SalesforceReact
• SmartStore
• SmartSync

Scaffolding Tools

• sfdx
• forceios create
• forceandroid create
• Install using NPM or Yarn
• npm install -g forceios
• cocoapods 1.4
• Node.js -v 8.11.0
• sfdx plugins

 forceios create
        --apptype=<Application Type> (native, native_swift, react_native, hybrid_local, hybrid_remote)
        --appname=<Application Name>
        --packagename=<App Package Identifier> (com.mycompany.myapp)
        --organization=<Organization Name> (Your company\'s/organization\'s name)
        --startpage=<App Start Page> (The start page of your remote app. Only required for hybrid_remote)
        [--outputdir=<Output directory> (Leave empty for current directory)]

sfdx to create mobile

sfdx plugins:install sfdx-mobilesdk-plugin

sfdx mobilesdk:ios:create -n sfdxtest -t native_swift /

  -o com.fekke.sfdx -d sfdxtest -k com.fekke.sfdx.sfdxtest

Notifications

• Remote Notifications can be sent from APEX code
• Salesforce has tie ins to APNS and GMS
• APNS requires certificate to be updated annually
• Can test using Salesforce Admin
• Apps can respond to remote notifications

SmartSync

• Uses SmartStore to store data on device
• Framework can detect when a record is out of sync
• Will work with Native and hybrid_local
• Uses SQLite as on device storage w/ 256 encryption
• Records stored as SOUPs
• Great approach is users have bad internet conn.

Apple Partnership

• Dreamforce Announcements
• 70% Salesforce users have iOS device
• Stronger integration Apple Tech
• Better Swift language support
• More Native UI features in App and Framework
• New Trailhead around Apple tools

Demo

Questions?

Resources

• www.npmjs.com/package/forceios
• www.npmjs.com/package/forcedroid
• developer.salesforce.com/devcenter/mobile
• github.com/forcedotcom/SalesforceMobileSDK-iOS
• github.com/forcedotcom/SalesforceMobileSDK-android
• github.com/davidfekke/jaxsfdev.git