Customizing Apps Using the Mobile Development Kit

The Mobile Development Kit for SAP Business Technology Platform Mobile Services is a metadata-based application development platform.

The Mobile Development Kit (MDK) lets you customize, deploy, and manage your customized Windows apps in the cloud. The Mobile Development Kit editor lets you edit various aspects of your application using the Mobile Development Kit editor. It also provides native client support and consumes mobile services such as onboarding, offline OData, life-cycle management, and supportability through the SAP Business Technology Platform Mobile Services using the Mobile Development Kit client.

The Mobile Development Kit allows business process experts to customize the app in a cloud-based editor using the SAP Web IDE, and developers to edit code directly in the metadata files.

The end-to-end use case for Mobile Development Kit includes tasks involving the following roles:
  • Administrator

  • Business process expert

  • Developer

  • User