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Getting started with IBM Worklight V5.0.6
Use Worklight V5.0.6 to build, test, deploy, and manage your smartphone and tablet apps for iOS, Android, Blackberry, and Windows Phone devices. The self-paced modules (PDF files), exercises, and sample code on this page will get you started.
Table of contents
1. Setting up your environment
2. Hello Worklight
3. Client-side development basics
4. Server-side development
5. Advanced client-side development
6. Adding native functionality to hybrid apps with Cordova
7. Developing native apps
8. Authentication and security
9. Advanced topics
10. Moving to production
11. Integrating with other products
12. Developing with Dojo Mobile
Additional resources
Terms and conditions
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Learn how to set up your development environment to work with IBM Worklight.
Learn how to create your first IBM Worklight app and preview it in different mobile operating systems.
Learn how to use basic IBM Worklight APIs to develop your apps, how to build a multi-page application, how to work with the user interface framework, how to debug and optimize your app, and some general information that you must know to work in each specific environment.
Learn how to develop the server code (adapters) that your mobile application requires to integrate with enterprise back-end applications and cloud services.
Learn how to implement different features in your mobile application, such as controls, skins, offline access, translation, and encryption of sensitive data. You also learn how to develop your client application by using native APIs.
Learn how to use Apache Cordova with IBM Worklight, and how to use native pages in hybrid applications.
Learn how to develop native applications with IBM Worklight.
Learn how to protect your applications and adapter procedures against unauthorized access by using authentication, login modules, and device provisioning.
Learn advanced topics that you can use with IBM Worklight, such as how to develop by using shells or how to handle notifications.
Learn how to move the apps that you create from your development environment to the production environment.
| Self-paced modules | Exercises and code samples |
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Moving from development environment to stand-alone QA
and production servers | |
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Reports and analytics |
Learn how IBM Worklight integrates with some other IBM products, such as IBM PureApplication™ System and Tivoli® Directory Server.
Learn how to use IBM Worklight to develop applications that are based on the Dojo Mobile framework, by studying the following samples.
Download convenient ZIPs of just the Getting started material. Try the Starter applications for a fast start to creating your mobile apps. Browse additional documentation on how to globalize your apps and calculate the required hardware for your IBM Worklight deployment.
| Additional resources | |
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 All Getting started modules | |
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All Getting started module companion samples and
application samples | |
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IBM Worklight Starter application | |
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IBM Worklight Starter application with
jQuery Mobile | |
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IBM Worklight Starter application with
Sencha Touch | |
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IBM Worklight Starter application with Dojo
Mobile | |
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IBM Worklight V5.0.6 Globalization white paper
| Learn how to develop globalized hybrid applications. This white paper covers globalization in JavaScript frameworks and IBM Worklight, as well as the advanced topics of globalizing web services and push notifications. |
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IBM Worklight V5.0.6 Scalability & Hardware Sizing
Hardware Calculator | Get results of Worklight scalability tests, and a guide to using the Hardware Calculator. The Hardware Calculator is a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet to help you determine the required hardware for your IBM Worklight deployment. |
Terms and conditions
Use of the IBM Worklight V5.0 Getting Started modules, exercises, and code samples available on this page is subject to you agreeing to the terms and conditions set forth here:
This information contains sample code provided in source code form. You may copy, modify, and distribute these sample programs in any form without payment to IBM® for the purposes of developing, using, marketing or distributing application programs conforming to the application programming interface for the operating platform for which the sample code is written. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, IBM PROVIDES THE SAMPLE SOURCE CODE ON AN "AS IS" BASIS AND IBM DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY, SATISFACTORY QUALITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND ANY WARRANTY OR CONDITION OF NON-INFRINGEMENT. IBM SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY OR ECONOMIC CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR OPERATION OF THE SAMPLE SOURCE CODE. IBM SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR LOSS OF, OR DAMAGE TO, DATA, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, BUSINESS REVENUE, GOODWILL, OR ANTICIPATED SAVINGS. IBM HAS NO OBLIGATION TO PROVIDE MAINTENANCE, SUPPORT, UPDATES, ENHANCEMENTS OR MODIFICATIONS TO THE SAMPLE SOURCE CODE.
Please review the third party licenses before using any of the resources. The third party licenses applicable to each sample are available in the notices.txt file included with each sample.
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