Planning involves familiarizing yourself with Sybase WorkSpace and its terminology and applying these concepts to your organization processes. Before you begin developing, you should have a thorough understanding of your current business processes and future needs. It is helpful to prepare a system configuration diagram that shows the resource types and names of the various service interactions. In most cases, this first phase of planning is done outside of Sybase WorkSpace.
Read Mobile Development to gain an understanding of mobile applications and the basic workflow used for creating different types of mobile applications.
When creating mobile applications, be aware of the memory and display limitations of the mobile device.
Mobilize only what you need. Identify the key information the mobilized user needs.
Use the List/Detail functionality to filter rules to repurpose data for the mobile device.
Use images only where necessary inside grids.
Use linked application and server side click-across features to achieve application flow.
Use the appropriate templates for the various device types you expect the users to have.
Identify the application source. Unwired Accelerator provides specialized tools for creating elements, such as data, Web, XML, and JSP.
Know how to access cheat sheets and online help.
See Connection Profiles and, if possible, set up connection profiles to be used by the mobile applications you plan to develop.
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