Adding the MobileFirst Foundation SDK to Cordova Applications.

In this tutorial, you learn how to add the MobileFirst SDK to a new or existing Cordova application that has been created with Apache

Cordova, Ionic, or another thirdy-party tool. You also learn how to configure the MobileFirst Server to recognize the application, and

to find information about the MobileFirst configuration files that are changed in the project.

The MobileFirst Cordova SDK is provided as a set of Cordova plug-ins, and is registered at NPM.

Available plug-ins are:

• cordova-plugin-mfp - The core SDK plug-in
• cordova-plugin-mfp-push - Provides push notifications support
• cordova-plugin-mfp-jsonstore - Provides JSONStore support
• cordova-plugin-mfp-fips - Android only. Provides FIPS support
• cordova-plugin-mfp-encrypt-utils - iOS only. Provides support for encryption and decryption

The Cordova platform versions supported by the MobileFirst plug-ins, are:

• cordova-ios: >= 4.1.1 and < 5.0
• cordova-android: >= 6.1.2 and <= 7.0
• cordova-windows: >= 4.3.2 and < 6.0

Before creating new application or using existing one, we need to install related software.

• Node.js
• NPM(3.10.10) - npm install -g [email protected]
• Codova - npm install -g cordova
• **JDK 7 or 8 **
• MobileFirst CLI - npm install -g mfpdev-cli
• MobileFirst Server
• Gradle - Extract and add path in System variable
• Android Studio & SDK

git clone https://github.com/progaurab/Exe01_StarterCordovaMobileFirst.git

and then follow from step 4.

Consider creating the project by using the MobileFirst Cordova application template. The template adds the necessary MobileFirst-

specific plug-in entries to the Cordova project’s config.xml file, and provides a MobileFirst-specific, ready-to-use, index.js file

that is adjusted for MobileFirst application development.

cordova create Exe01_StarterCordovaMobileFirst com.androidabcd.helloworld HelloWorld --template cordova-template-mfp

Where,

• “Exe01_StarterCordovaMobileFirst” is the folder name of the application.
• “com.androidabcd.helloworld” is the ID of the application.
• “HelloWorld” is the Name of the application.
• –template modifies the application with MobileFirst-specific additions.

cd Exe01_StarterCordovaMobileFirst

cordova platform add android

and then follow from step 6.

cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-mfp

cordova prepare

• From a Command-line window, navigate to the extracted folder and execute the run.sh|cmd script to start the MobileFirst Server.

• Load the MobileFirst Operations Console (username/password: admin/admin): http://localhost:9080/mfpconsole

mfpdev app register

cordova buld android

cordova run android