Android Applications

Set up your Android environment for Native OData app development.

MAF logon components implement user onboarding workflows.

The SAP Mobile Platform SDK provides a set of features and APIs (collectively referred to as supportability) that captures errors, traces and logs events, then uploads this information to the SAP Mobile Platform Server, where it can be analyzed from the cockpit.

The Conversation Manager (HttpConversation library) facilitates sending and receiving HTTP requests and responses between an Android app and server, and is built on top of the java.net.HttpURLConnection and javax.net.ssl.HttpsURLConnection APIs, which are provided as part of the Android system.

Understand how to develop a native Android application that uses an online OData store.

MAF reusable controls allow you to use native Android UI controls (such as buttons and labels) that display a default SAP style, from a prebuilt library. You can skin these components at runtime to match customer branding, without recompiling the source code. MAF also contains a set of complex controls, such as the calendar, the tree view, and locale-aware controls. These complex controls, which provide additional runtime skinning capabilities, are built from the simple MAF controls.

The Extensibility Framework is an SDK for Android applications, providing to developers the ability to add or replace screens or subviews, change navigation patters, update the data model, add custom actions, and so on. You can use it when developing new applications, but you can also extend existing applications with little effort; you need not recompile and redistribute the apps.

Run the Android application on a real device or on an emulator.

Publish an Android application to an app marketplace such as Google Play, or make it available for download from the SAP application store.

Once an application is deployed to a device, debug problems by analyzing device crash logs and console output.