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Mobile Web Properties

Mobile Web is the browser on the device. Mobile Web properties define the properties for the application on Mobile Web under various platforms.

To set Mobile Web properties, do the following:

  1. On the Edit menu, click Settings, and then click the Mobile Web tab.

  2. In the Shortcut icons section, click the Browse button that corresponds with the iPhone Shortcut property, and then navigate to and select the file you want to use as the icon that represents the app on the iPhone screen.
  3. In the Shortcut icons section, click the Browse button that corresponds with the Web Browser property, and then navigate to and select the file you want to use. When you launch the application in a web browser you see the icon specified here as the application icon.
  4. In the Title text box, enter the title that you want to appear in the in the web browser when you launch the application on Mobile Web.
  5. Navigate to the General tab.
    1. Select the appropriate Session Manager in Session Management. Session management indicates how session data (for example, user name and password) is managed. Kony Session Manager indicates that the data is stored on the Kony Application Server and Http Session Manager indicates that the data is stored as part of the session object.
    2. Select Phone format Indicator if you want to highlight a telephone number clearly in the browser.
    1. Select Requires GPS functionality to enable the application to use the GPS functionality. For more information about GPS functionality, see the appendix GPS Functionality.
    2. Select Enable focus skin for HTML5 iPhone, to enable focus skins for HTML5 iPhone.
    3. Select Enable Server side Mobile Web in Build Screen, to build applications for the Server side Mobile Web platform.
    4. Under No Java Script message, enter a message to be displayed to the user if the browser does not support Java Script. the default message is To use this site, first enable your browser's JavaScript support and then refresh this page. If you want to display a different message, overwrite this message.
  6. Navigate to Base Fonts tab.
    1. Select appropriate Base Font sizes in points for iPhone and various categories of browsers.

      Note: When you specify the font size within the skin of a widget, the font size is calculated based on this Base Font.

      The following table explains the base fonts for each platform:

      PlatformBase Font (in points)
      iPhone12
      Basic Devices10
      Basic with JS 24010
      Basic with JS 32010
      Basic with JS 48010
      Android 24010
      Android 32010
      Android 48014
      Android 64019
      Palm 24010
      Palm 32012
      Palm 48014
      SPA iPad17
      SPA Android Tablet17
  7. Navigate to App Menu More Image tab.
    1. On platforms like iPhone, Android, Palm, XHTML BJS, and XHTML More button appears when the app menu has more than 5 app menu items. You can specify an image for the More button on these platforms. Browse and select the image if you an image to displayed instead of the standard More button.

      Note: If you do not specify an image, the standard More button is displayed.

  8. Navigate to Site Minder tab.
    1. Add a Context ID. Context ID is used to set the context path in the URL of an application.
    2. Add a corresponding Context Path. Context Path appears in the application URL.

  9. Navigate to Import JS tab.
    1. Click the Add button to add a row where you can specify the URL of the Java Script file that you want to be executed in the browser.

    2. Repeat the above step if you want add more Java Script files.
  10. Navigate to Mixed Mode Server Details tab. Provide the details of the server that must be used for a Mixed Mode application. Use this option to set default image while downloading the image if you do not have any image for image while loading property.
  11. You can specify a default downloading image under the SPA tab which is displayed to the user instead of a blank page.
  12. Click Finish.
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