Similar to the earlier releases, Android 13 includes behavior changes, new features and APIs that may affect your app. Android has always been about personalization, allowing you to select the device, service and experience that’s right for you. Android 13 focuses on developing an operating system that is secure by default and private by design, making all your devices work better together. Android 13 introduces various new Features and APIs, Behavior changes for developers and end users. Mobile Foundation Support for Android 13 Beta We have verified various features of MobileFirst Platform Fo ..read more

The interim fix 8.0.0.0-MFPF-IF202010151343 introduced a breaking change to support compatibility with older versions of the Mobile Foundation server. If your app uses any of the following SDKs - Android, iOS or Cordova version 8.0.2020101412 or higher, it is necessary to upgrade your server version to 8.0.2020101311 or a higher version. This feature was necessitated by the APAR PH30473 STRENGTHENING PRE-AUTH ENDPOINT, which introduced changes in the communication protocol between the Mobile Foundation SDKs and the Mobile Foundation server. In the recent versions of SDKs, the entry sdkProtocol ..read more

A vulnerability has been reported in the Apache Log4j open source library in the CVE-2021-44228. Log4j versions affected All Log4j-core versions >= 2.0-beta9 and <= 2.14.1 are impacted. The versions of Log4j 2 affected are documented in the official Log4j website Apache Log4j Security Vulnerabilities. Impact on IBM Mobile Foundation The usage of Log4j has been reviewed with respect to the reported vulnerability as described in CVE-2021-44228 and in the Spring community announcement. The version of Log4j bundled within IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation (MFP) 8.0 is 1.x. The vulnerabilit ..read more

The ongoing pandemic has affected all our lives in more ways than one in 2020 and still continues to be in year 2021. However, all of this did not stop both Google and Apple from releasing pre-release versions of their new mobile operating systems to developers this year. In this post, we will assess the new changes and features in both iOS 15 and Android 12 and the compatibility of Mobile Foundation SDKs with Android 12 and iOS 15. iOS 15 Apple in June 2021 introduced the latest version of its iOS operating system, iOS 15, which is released on September 20. iOS 15 introduces a slew of new fea ..read more

The ongoing pandemic has affected all our lives in more ways than one in 2020 and still continous to be in year 2021. However, all of this did not stop both Google and Apple from releasing pre-release versions of their new mobile OSes to developers this year. In this post, we will assess the new changes and features in both iOS 15 and Android 12 and the compatibility of Mobile Foundation SDKs with Android 12 and iOS 15. iOS 15 Apple in June 2021 introduced the latest version of its iOS operating system, iOS 15, which is released on September 20. iOS 15 introduces a slew of new features that is ..read more

Apache Community released cordova-android@10.0.0 which has support for Android 30 API Level (Android Version 11). As stated in the blog it has breaking changes especially AndroidX only support and WebViewAssetLoader support. Mobile Foundation (MF) Cordova plugin for Android component implemented to support new plugin changes. Android released Google Playstore target API Level requirement for new applications and existing applications. It states that starting August 2021, all new apps should be targeted for API level 30 (Android 11) and above. Also starting November 2021, updates to existing ap ..read more

A new iFix 7.1.0.0-MFPF-IF202009221716 has been released for MobileFirst Foundation 7.1, dated September 22nd, 2020. iFix 7.1.0.0-MFPF-IF202009221716  latest iFix for MobileFirst Foundation 7.1, dated September 22nd, 2020. Download iFix (requires login to IBM Fix Central). Changes included in this iFix For a cumulative list of all previous fixes, see the iFix download page on IBM Fix Central. PH29641 IOS APP CRASHES INTERMITTENTLY DURING OAUTH CALLS IN MFP 7.1 Previous iFixes for MobileFirst Foundation 7.1 IFixes for MobileFirst Foundation 7.1 that was released earlier is listed h ..read more

Mobile Foundation (MF) Android SDK uses OkHttp third party library to establish the communication between MF client and server. Starting API level 28 (Android 9), Android started restricting the non-SDK interfaces used in the app. In the newer releases of Android OS, few of the methods from Okhttp v3.4.1 bundled in MF Android SDK have been black listed and below warnings are seen on Google Play Store console. StrictMode policy violation: android.os.strictmode.NonSdkApiUsedViolation: Lcom/android/org/conscrypt/ConscryptEngineSocket;->setHostname(Ljava/lang/String;)V StrictMode policy viol ..read more

Android has always been about personalization and allowing you to select the device, service and experience that’s right for you. Android 12 focuses on developing an operating system that is secure by default and private by design, and making all your devices work better together. Android 12 introduces various new Features and APIs, Behavior changes for developers and end users. We have been testing Android 12 Beta 2. We verified various features of MobileFirst Platform Foundation on the Android 12 Beta 2 for MobileFirst Platform Foundation v8.0 MFP Push notifications support for Android 12 ..read more

APNS has announced that they will no longer support legacy binary protocol from March 31st, 2021. Users have been asked to switch to the new HTTP/2 protocol to avoid disruptions to Push notifications capability. Starting from March 31st, APNS will close legacy binary protocol endpoints with port 2197 and 2195. For AIX system, Mobile Foundation Platform has provided HTTP/2 support from latest ifix 8.0.0.0-MFPF-IF202103191338. Pre-requisite for HTTP/2 protocol To get native support, the JAVA fix level has to be at a minimum level. Do the following steps to apply the latest ifix: iFix require I ..read more