[prashanth.rao]

Hi,
We are evaluating whether mobione is the right tool to go ahead in our company. I am relying on google, forums, users and whether mobione meets our requirement and provides the solution.

Problem:
Need a app which say on click of a button should be able to retrieve following information
Phone number, IMSI, MMC and MNC

Is there a way we can achieve it.

Cheers,
Prashanth

[Brandon]

You can get most the info from the PhoneGap API:
http://docs.phonegap.com/en/2.5.0/cordova_device_device.md.html#Device

The device number I believe you need a phoneGap plugin for, but there are plenty of them with samples available.

[prashanth.rao]

Thanks! for the reply. Let me go for demo version and see whether I can get it on iPhone…If all okay can buy the complete version.

Thanks! again for the info…getting going now 🙂

[prashanth.rao]

Hi,
Can I write something like an HTML file then add my Javascript code which calls PhoneGAP API to get phone number etc information ?

Will mobione compile it to native source ?
Or
Should I just put my handsdown and start using XCode+PhoneGap with app dev license (Not very keen to go in this direction)?

Cheers,
Prashanth

[support-michael]

>Can I write something like an HTML file then add my Javascript code which calls PhoneGAP API to get phone number etc information ? Will mobione compile it to native source ?

Yes, design your app’s UI with the MobiOne Visual Designer. Implement your app’s logic using javascript and interface with device services via the Cordova/Phonegap 2.2 javascript api (camera, accelerometer, compass, audio/video capture…). Then using MobiOne’s App Center Builder service to package your HTML5 web content with the Cordova runtime environment to create a native binary form for installation and management like true native platform apps.

[prashanth.rao]

Hi,
Thanks! for you reply. Apologies for pestering question on top of questions..

How can I integrate Mobione studio(preferred) with phoneGapAPI (for iPhone/Android). I was not able to find good documentation regarding ‘How to integrate PhoneGAPAPI’ with mobione. Please note phoneGapAPIs give a custom XCodeprojects and not a generic jar kind of things 🙁

Is it like adding the phoneGap jar or war or ear or dll or god sake something to your build path and everything working ? I know it shouldn’t be that hard, I might be overlooking very minor one.

Thanks for your help in advance.

Cheers,
Prashanth

[support-michael]

The cordova.js api is automatically added to your startup html file by App Center builder during the build process. Thus you can use the Cordova 2.2 js api straight away and it will bind to the cordova api at runtime.

You do not need to import any cordova libs into your project or any such actions. Just use the api from any javascript action or callback.

Lastly, don’t think about xcode or traditional code/compilation IDEs. The build process is performed by MobiOne App Center Builder, a cloud service.

[prashanth.rao]

Hi,
As you should know, some of the logic (like getting phone number, imsi etc) should be implemented in Native Objective-C for iPhone. How can I include native code (*.h , *.m, *.plist) in mobione ?

Cheers,
Prashanth

[support-octavio]

Hi Prashanth,

In a nutshell MobiOne does not support the native programming models of the various mobile platforms.

MobiOne’s cross-platform application model is based on the hyrbid app architecture using the Cordova/PhoneGap OSS framework. The hybrid model is effectively a packaged HTML5 mobile webapp that is run inside the app framework’s embedded web container. The container provides javascript bridge for the webapp to access native services.

Thus, MobiOne does not work with the native programming models of android or ios. We will be introducing the ability for users to provide their own native plugins as part of their project builds in the future.

[prashanth.rao]

Thanks! for your quick response.

As much as I love mobione studio to develop app(s), I am forced to withdraw for my company on commercial purpose sighting the only reason mentioned above.

I will keep a close watch on dev progress of the tool and purchase it for personal use.

Thanks! again for helping out.

Cheeers,
Prashanth

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