Slides from Southwest Fox 2011 on creating mobile apps that pull data from DBF files.

1. Fox on the Run
Developing Mobile Apps with a FoxPro Back End
Eric J. Selje
Geeks & Gurus, Inc.

2. Tell Me Something Good
We are going from native VFP tables to a
native smartphone application in 75 m
Level: Intermediate
Pre-requisites: Intermediate understanding
of web-based applications and desire to
create mobile apps that tap Visual FoxPro
back-ends.
Pre-requisites: Java, Objective-C, Whatever
it is that WebOS uses, XAML AND
Silverlight.

3. Don’t You Forget (About Me)
 Fox developer since 1985?
 Conference Attendee since 1995
 Conference Speaker since 2010

4. What’s Going On?
 Why mobile development?
 Start with what you’ve got
 Take it to the next level – a Web App
 Make the final leap – a Smartphone App

5. Going Mobile

6. Show Me The Way

7. Any Road Will Take You There

8. 1: Let’s Get It Started
 Test Application: SWFox Database!
 Speakers
 Topics
 Tracks

9. 2: Wrap It Up
 Create a business object wrapper around
your database
 Already done?
 wwBizObject

10. 3: Return to Sender
 Create a new method to return data as
JSON
 I’ll use wwJSONSerializer
 Other classes exist (Craig Boyd)

11. 4: Go All The Way
 From Browser to Fox and back again
 Need to spiff it up

12. 5: Options
 Where we add a menu to our page

13. 6: Let it Shine
 jQuery Mobile

14. 7: Love It Live
 Use AJAX
to get LIVE data
 Clean it up with
jQuery

15. 8: Build Me Up, Buttercup
 Compile to NATIVE app
 PhoneGap
 Titanium

16. 9: You Can’t Do That
 Add features you can’t get from WebApps
 Vibrate
 Camera
 Geolocation
 Contacts
 So much more…

17. 10: Give It Away
Device
IPhone iTunes
Android
Many
Markets
APK

18. (This is) The End
 Your data yearns to breathe free
 Mobile development is fairly
straightforward with the right tools
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