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SAP Mobile Development Kit 2.5 (MDK)
Introduction
The SAP Mobile Development Kit (MDK) offers developers and development consultants
an integrated and comprehensive set of documentation
& tools to
- quickly understand the development concept for SAP
Mobile Infrastructure-based applications
- quickly start programming their first MI example programs
- develop, deploy, start, test and debug mobile applications from within the
IDE
- find short, precise and helpful answers to all implementation-specific
question
Please check the latest SAP Note 717510. It contains information about
restrictions of the current release.
MDK Documentation
The MDK documentation is offered through the Help System of SAP NetWeaver Developer
Studio and consists of the following parts:
- Introduction
This chapter introduces you to Mobile Infrastructure and its architecture.
- Development Environment
In this chapter you familiarize yourself with the functions and features offered
through the MDK Plug-In.
- Getting Started
This chapter outlines the red line of MI and its development concept that
should be read only once. At the end of this chapter, readers will have developed
and deployed a Hello World-type of example on MI
- Tutorials
The tutorials are step-by-step guides for getting to know the central APIs
and services of MI. In the course of the tutorial, the reader will have developed
a more complex example in the field of Smart Synchronization.
- Application development
The application development section builds the core of the MDK documentation
and will serve as constant reference during the implementation process. It
comprises several subchapters:
- The framework services offered by MI in the form of APIs are discussed
in depth, furnishing examples where necessary. This is the place to find
the API's Javadoc also.
- All other implementation-specific issues like security, performance,
testing, software logistics etc. are also discussed.
MDK Plug-In
The MDK Plug-In is tuned to accelerate
the development process for mobile applications. Developing, deploying and starting
the mobile application are performed by the MDK plugin without leaving the SAP
NetWeaver Developer Studio.
Skills Necessary for the MDK
In the MDK, we assume that developers have good knowledge of:
- Java
- Basic operating system (navigation and file copy)
- JSP (Java Server Pages)
- HTML is helpful
- ABAP/4
- General concepts of SAP Web Application Server
- SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio or Eclipse