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IBM Worklight projects, applications, environments, and skins

IBM Worklight applications

Develop mobile applications using any of four different approaches:

Web Applications	Written entirely in HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript. Executed by the mobile browser. Cross-platform by default.
Hybrid Applications (Web)	Web code executed within a Worklight container containing native libraries.
Hybrid Applications (Mixed)	Web code augmented with native language. For accessing native APIs not available in JavaScript.
Native Applications	Platform-specific. Includes Java and Objective-C

IBM Worklight projects and environments

To develop Worklight mobile applications, first create a project in IBM Worklight Studio.

You build applications for...

• Mobile environments...
  • iPhone
  • BlackBerry 10
  • BlackBerry 6 and 7
  • Android
  • Windows Phone 8
  • Windows Phone 7

• Desktop environments...
  • Windows 8
  • Windows 7
  • Mac OS

• Web environments...
  • Facebook
  • iGoogle

In projects, after creating an application, there is a main application folder, which contains...

Folder	Description
common	HTML, CSS or JavaScript code shared between all environments.
android	Java code for Android
iphone	Objective-C code for iOS
adapter	Adapter code for collecting data from back-end systems.

For example...

$ cd /IBM/Worklight/ApplicationCenter/installer/IBMAppCenter/apps/AppCenter
$ ls -CF
android/   application-descriptor.xml   common/   iphone/

Test applications

We can test most applications with the Mobile Browser Simulator in Worklight Studio. We cannot test native code with Worklight Studio. To test native code, test it with a real device or with the development kit of the appropriate environment.

IBM Worklight skins

To write code specific to a certain device, create a skin, which is a variant of an environment.

Skins provide support for multiple form factors in a single executable file for devices of the same OS family. Skins are packaged together in one app. At run time, only the skin that corresponds to the target device is applied.

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