SMP 3.0 really Enterprise Mobility Platform?

My Question to All Community Members.
Does SMP 3.0 really solves basic problem of all enterprises such as back-end integration with various Web Apps and RDMSB Systems? It does not have all adapters to connect to Web apps and RDMS and dost not have ability to build custom logic in platform.

SMP3 includes the Integration Gateway (IGW) component for integrating with non-OData back-end systems. This tool is directly integrated into SMP3 in all installations and includes Eclipse-based design-time tooling for modeling and deploying integration services. IGW utilizes same technology that the HANA Cloud Integration product is built on. Currently, IGW provides SMP access to SOAP, JDBC, JPA and ODC data sources. A particularly interesting capability is the support of "mashup" or composite data sources that include entities from different back ends in one service. As we move forward, you will see the connectors and capabilities of IGW enhanced for both on-premise and cloud deployment.

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Selection of a mobile framework - for enterprise mobility app.

There have been many plethora of mobility frameworks (e.g Kony, HTML5 based frameworks) that have same features as Cordova - write your code once and run it on multiple platforms. Some are free,others are not. Having recently implemented enterprise mobility app (integrating with ECC, CRM) using one such framework, there are a certain I would like to consider before choosing a framework:
a) How easy it to build security into the app (the login module)?
b) How do I know that the requests for my data is an authenticated source?
c) How good is the vendor support with plugins, upgrades to SDK?
d) For frameworks that are free, do vendors really pay attention to issues that you are facing during (very specific to) your implementation.
e) Scalability of the framework to support the app with newer mobile OSs, mobility sets (Motorola, Micromax, Blackberry), tabs.
f) All mobile sets have limited memory at most to 2GB (or little more). How will the framework help in viewing huge amount of data that is there in SAP?
From my experience, I would say it is big pain, implementing a enterprise mobility app with open framework adhering with the go live dates.
SAP products are more easy to handle. A lot of featues comes inbuilt. Mobile apps comes as pre-packaged apps. One needs to customize it according to it needs. Product support from SAP is remarkable. Implementing and going live with such product becomes automatically easy adhering to the timelines. So is the maintenance. But of course comes the licensing price for SAP.

Sukanta Rudra,
I love to work with SAP products and so i m in SAP. Having worked on several other mobile applications before , i can clearly see the ease in development of Enterprise applications using SAP products portfolio.
Often I have seem blogs in SCN, advocating for frameworks other than that of SAP. No harm
Please mention the blogs as a reference for more understanding. I can always only see Cordova / appcelerator being the recommended platforms by SAP for cross platforms development.
SAP Partners with Adobe-Cordova/phonegap , Appcelerator, Sencha (the three big players in cross platform development)
Developer Announcement: Third Party Tools
SAP Drives Openness and Choice for Millions of Mobile App Developers
More over i have worked mostly on all the three for a while and have experienced the ease in development with cordova.
Also the HWC (Hybrid Web Container ) - the former way for developing hybrid applications on SAP Mobile Platform till 2.x has Cordova/phonegap plugins inbuilt in it. Literally it followed the approch of Cordova and ui framework was of Jquery Mobile .
But Now with the release of SMP 3.X things are completely under the control of developer. There are no restrictions to use a particular framework for development and developers are free to use their choice for development (SMP 3.x highlights BYOT - Bring Your Own Tools for Developers).
Adding to above , just would like to mention there are few products mainly focused and developed on cordova technology (KAPSEL plugins, Appbuilder, Fiori Client , River RDE in future integrating Kapsel plugins)
SMP 3.x is all open for developers , we are free to use any platform as per our requirements and convenience now.
PLease have a look at these videos on how SMP 3.x strategy stands for
My experience has been using Kony-SKY framework for developing the mobility apps (not mobile web). SKY plugins has been certified by SAP, to be used for developing mobility applications. (SAP does embrace other vendors). My questions pointed out above, was out of the struggles we had while implementing the project. Many at times, I felt I was reinventing the same tools while integrating into the SAP backends.
I am not a Kony guy, but will surely look into this and would check if i can help you.But out of my experience with Cordova /HWC/ Kapsel , it was satisfactory.
I presume you might have used/using SAP's Fiori apps, SAPUI5, mobile architecture and would like to gather some more information very specific to SAP's environment. I have no experience now on delivering apps using SAP's products. Maybe three months from now, I would get deep with 'SAP Fiori UX and SAP Screen Personas'. Maybe you could throw some light on few more queries.
Yeah , thanks to SAP for Fiori being out of License now and UI5 an Opensource. I have had the opportunity to also work and implement Fiori transnational applications and also develop Custom UI5 applications .
Note : Personas is really a good product , but on the down side is n't responsive in nature , so might not be a best fit for mobile devices
How are builds generated for different platforms? (Android uses.apk, Blackberry uses .cod, iPhone uses .ipa)
I can help you understand this with an Android Phone Gap project example
Typically Native Android apps are developed using Core Java.
Initially all the Core libraries of Android and java are loaded with import command
import android.os.Bundle;
Now Cordova libraries are added to existing libraries
import android.os.Bundle;
import org.apache.cordova.*;
and Android uses the concept activities and layout for screen navigation and designing.
and by default any android project should have an activity and layout for launching the application, for which the code looks something similar to this
setContentView(R.layout.main);
so , a Relative layout is initially launched as main view.
As mentioned in the blog in " How does it actually work section " cordova loads web views instead of the native layouts /activities
How Does it actually work ?
Technically the User Interface of a Cordova Application is effectively a WebView that occupies the complete screen and runs in the native Container. So , it is the same web view that is used by the Native Operating systems. This purely means that only the Native Containers changes according to the OS and internally the web pages remain the same. (Since the browser rendering of webpages are different for each operating systems)
For       IOS it is UIWebView class
             Android it is in android.webkit.webview
             Windows it is WebViewClass and the similar goes to other OS .
This line of code is responsible for that
super.loadUrl("file:///android_asset/www/index.html");
our developed web applications should reside in the above mentioned location to access as any native web view
also few other hacks are to be done at
public class [appname]Activity extends Activity {
to
public class [appname] Activity extends DroidGap {
and to the android manifest file accordingly to get the permissions
Now internally the android applications works just like any native applications but accessing the web applications files in the web view. and just generates the .apk accordingly to the application.
Say a query is executed from a mobility app, say the result set is some 1000 rows, how does the data fetch mechanism work. Do you use some delta data fetch mechanism?
if i were to handle this , would try to filter this out to sections. Lets imagine huge PO s are resulted upon a query, i would try to create some sections/categories for Unreleased/Open/Approved /... and again try to perform some dynamic filter operations on each category selection/ or make use of pagination property to move across the items/records
Also user would not be interested to scroll and search for his item from a huge collection of items.
More over for handling of huge records Native approach is preferred to Hybrid/mobile web.
When a mobility connection snaps while the user is using the app, does the app stop immediately? Or rather how is user informed about non availability of the network connection?
Lets assume two cases here
1) Complete Online application
2) Online Offline Application
1) If user is trying to access the data from the application , since this being an online application , a proper network connectivity id to be checked properly before making any request .
for phone gap/cordova , Network Object helps us to check if network connectivity is available to make any request. else throw an alert to check the connectivity/ turn on the connectivity.
Similarly a Connectivity manager API exists for Android . Here is an example. Same would apply for other OS also.
2) For online - offline application . user wouldn't be able to read records from back end , but can perform other necessary operations on the device, and once the device gets connected to network, can sync with the back end . An alert should be thrown to inform the user about the loss in network connectivity and the limitations in accessing the data .
Build/release mechanism and subsequent tracking for mobility apps for periodic release of apps - say there would regular fixes to bugs, upgrades to framework SDK, device OSs might get upgraded - Is there a tool for tracking all these, etc
Yes. MDM tools are perfect fit for these. Afaria and Mocana are doing well now.
And, anything that you would like to share, related to SAPs environment, that makes implementation easier.
SAP Mobility is really booming and will grow , dominate in enterprise mobility in future.
For our understanding:
Let us know for more.
Edit :
IG is a part of SMP 3 but not a separate component as NWG
Regards
Virinchy
Message was edited by: Virinchy P

Sap Mobile platform Tutorialst

Hello,
          I need to consume the sap backend in android,this can be possible by using the "SAP Mobile Platform and SAPR3<>NetWeaverGateway<>SUP-ODP<>RelayServer<>Device".I already registered with the open sap, i have done the self study for the course SAP mobile Solution Development for Enterprise,so now i got some information on it i need to learn it very depth.
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     1.Is their any other online training courses available on sap mobile platform ?
     2.Open Sap will soon start any training courses on sap mobile platform ?
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This download link is related to SAP Store and I guess there is some issue with SAP Store now. (store.sap.com) .
Anyways the link might provide access to only SDK of SMP 3.0 , but to develop mobile applications on SMP both the Runtime and SDK are to be installed and only SDK is available to public.
If you have a valid S-User credentials you can download SMP from SAP Service Marketplace - Home
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