netweaver mobile development trial

[Former Member]

hi folks,

which opportunities do I have if I want to play around with developing mobile sap applications?

can you please list the possibilities to access data in a minisap from a iphone, windows mobile, blackberry and android application.

I am especially interested in developing an android applikation which access a sap minisap system.

is there a way to implement an android app which connects to my minisap with the netweaver mobile infrastructure trial which is listed in the sdn downloads? I think this download is too old.

thank you

[Former Member]

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[Former Member]

Hi Pierre,

I am new bee with SAP mobile and SAP basis also, I would like to develop custom mobile client with server side also but because i use trial version so follow this topic and your guide i think i must use solution : CUSTOM SOLUTION ->RFC or HTTP/S ->SYNC Layer ->DOE ->MaxDB. is it correct Please?

Do you know if i can use Meta data APIs , Sync Layer, or channel framework in SAP ABAP Web AS trial (SAP netweaver 7.01 abap trial), i check function module, example MSB_GET_LIST_OF_SCV, in se37 tcode but it does not exist.

Thank and best regards.

[Former Member]

Hi,

If you want to develop your own SAP NetWeaver Mobile client you'll need a working SAP NetWeaver Mobile 7.1 system (full version). The specific required components are not available on any trial version.

Regards,

Pierre

[Former Member]

Hi,

The SAP NW Mobile trial version only contains the development tools for the client side. You will need the AS ABAP if you want to develop a "real" application with features such as data synchronization.

Regards,

Pierre

[Former Member]

hi,

but you can set up a minisap as application server abap and then play around with nw mobile?

what about android development...is it possible?

regards

[Former Member]

Hi,

I don't think so. Minisap probably does not contain the specific mobile components.

There's no standard Android client for SAP NetWeaver Mobile. If you want to develop SAP NW Mobile applications for Android, you'll have to create you own custom client. There's a doc on SDN explaining what you have to do : [Integrating Custom Client with Data Orchestration Engine (DOE)|http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/index?rid=/library/uuid/30e033a0-73ef-2b10-b291-b653c3b48385].

Of course you don't have to use SAP NW Mobile if you don't want to. For instance you could build your Android application from scratch using the Android SDK and use SOAP or REST Web Services to interact with the backend. I wrote a blog about this a while ago : [Consuming SOAP Web Services with Android|http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/16483] [original link is broken] [original link is broken] [original link is broken];.

Regards,

Pierre