Overview of Mobile SDK

The Mobile SDK provides tools to customize mobile applications. It can enable you to:

  • Rebrand your application and preconfigure it
  • Customize to use custom help files or perform actions such as disabling software encryption
  • Perform specific checks before launching
  • Use MicroStrategy's security and authentication functionality
  • Integrate with Google Maps and Newsstand
  • Use MicroStrategy's widgets, as well as create custom ones
  • For iOS devices, you can use MicroStrategy Command Center to create a mission control center, with multiple iPads controlling a wall of HDTV screens

Mobile SDK for iOS

Mobile SDK for iOS allows you to compile the MicroStrategy Mobile application for iOS mobile devices. It includes the Mobile application, along with documentation in the MSDL. It works with Xcode and the iOS SDK.

Mobile SDK for Android

Mobile SDK for Android enables you to compile the MicroStrategy Mobile application for Android mobile devices. It includes a Mobile application, along with documentation in the MSDL. It works with the Eclipse IDE and the Android SDK.

Application of Mobile SDK – Rebranding

We can rebrand the MicroStrategy Mobile application for iOS by changing the name, the application icon, and the splash screen. Typically, system administrator provides the mobile configuration URL to users. Firstly, we need to set up the MicroStrategy Mobile project; secondly, we rebrand the application.

Set up the MicroStrategy Mobile project

For setting up the MicroStrategy Mobile project:

  1. Open the MicroStrategy Mobile project in Xcode.
  2. Choose whether to deploy the project to an iPhone or iPad.
  3. Update the bundle identifier with your application ID.
  4. Update the URL scheme.
  5. Build the project to confirm that it compiles and deploys successfully.

Rebranding the application

  1. Change the name of the application:
    1. Double-click the appropriate property list file (Info_IPhone.plist or Info_IPad.plist for iPhone and iPad, respectively), to open it in the editor.
    2. Configure the Bundle display name property. This property is the name used for the application. Update the value of this property with the name of your application.
    3. Save changes.

  2. Change the URL scheme for the application.
  3. Change the icon of the application:

    Rebranding the application

  4. Change the splash screen of the application:
    1. Splash screen is simply a PNG graph file which will be displayed during lunch. It can be replaced under images.xcaseets.
    2. Right-click the iPhone/iPad folder and select Add Files to MicroStrategyMobile. This displays an editor for setting properties.
    3. Navigate to the new PNG file(s) you created for the splash screen, and select the check box for Copy items into destination group's folder (if needed) in the dialog.
    4. Select the appropriate target (MicroStrategyMobileIPhone and/or MicroStrategyMobileIPad for iPhone and iPad respectively) in the Add To Targets panel, and click Add. The editor closes.
    5. Save changes.

  5. Add custom help.

Finally, build the project to confirm that the application compiles and deploys successfully.

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