For up-to-date product documentation, see the IBM MobileFirst Foundation Developer Center.

Application properties

Applications have their own sets of properties, which depend on the operating system on the mobile device and cannot be edited. Applications also have a common property and editable properties.

The values of the following fields are taken from the application and we cannot edit them.

• Package.
• Internal Version.
• Commercial Version.
• Label.
• External URL; this property is supported for applications that run on Android, iOS, and Windows Phone 8.

Properties of Android applications

For more information about the following properties, see the Android SDK documentation.

• Package is the package name of the application; package attribute of the manifest element in the manifest file of the application.
• Internal Version is the internal version identification of the application; android:versionCode attribute of the manifest element in the manifest file of the application.
• Commercial Version is the published version of the application.
• Label is the label of the application; android:label attribute of the application element in the manifest file of the application.
• External URL is a URL that we can use to have the mobile client of the Application Center started automatically in the Details view of the latest version of the current application.

Properties of iOS applications

For more information about the following properties, see the iOS SDK documentation.

• Package is the company identifier and the product name; CFBundleIdentifier key.
• Internal Version is the build number of the application; CFBundleVersion key of the application.
• Commercial Version is the published version of the application.
• Label is the label of the application; CFBundleDisplayName key of the application.
• External URL is a URL that we can use to have the mobile client of the Application Center started automatically in the Details view of the latest version of the current application.

Properties of Windows Phone 8 applications

For more information about the following properties, see the Windows Phone documentation.

• Package is the product identifier of the application; ProductID attribute of the App element in the manifest file of the application.
• Internal Version is the version identification of the application; Version attribute of the App element in the manifest file of the application.
• Commercial Version, like Internal Version, is the version of the application.
• Label is the title of the application; Title attribute of the App element in the manifest file of the application.
• Vendor is the vendor who created the application; Publisher attribute of the App element in the manifest file of the application.
• External URL is a URL that we can use to have the mobile client of the Application Center started automatically in the Details view of the latest version of the current application.
• Commercial Version, like Internal Version, is the version of the application.

Properties of Windows Store applications

For more information about the following properties, see the Windows Store documentation about application development.

• Package is the product identifier of the application; Package name attribute in the manifest file of the application.
• Internal Version is the version identification of the application; Version attribute in the manifest file of the application.
• Commercial Version, like Internal Version, is the version of the application.
• Label is the title of the application; Package display name attribute in the manifest file of the application.
• Vendor is the vendor who created the application; Publisher attribute in the manifest file of the application.

Common property: Author

The Author field is read-only. It displays the username attribute of the user who uploads the application.

Editable properties

We can edit the following fields:

Description

Use this field to describe the application to the mobile user.

Recommended

Select Recommended to indicate that you encourage users to install this application. Recommended applications appear as a special list in the mobile client.

Installer

For the Administrator only: This property indicates that the application is used to install other applications on the mobile device and send feedback on an application from the mobile device to the Application Center. Usually only one application is qualified as Installer and is called the mobile client. This application is documented in The mobile client.

Active

Select Active to indicate that an application can be installed on a mobile device.

• If you do not select Active, the mobile user does not see the application in the list of available applications that is displayed on the device and the application is inactive.
• In the list of available applications in Application Management, if Show inactive is selected, the application is disabled. If Show inactive is not selected, the application does not appear in the list of available applications.

Ready for production

Select Ready for production to indicate that an application is ready to be deployed in a production environment and is therefore suitable to be managed by Tivoli® Endpoint Manager through its application store. Applications for which this property is selected are the only ones that are flagged to Tivoli Endpoint Manager.

Parent topic: The Application Center console