Mobile Application Life Cycle

SAP® defines the mobile application life cycle as the process by which an enterprise gives users access to applications and other related mobility resources (enterprise data, network connections, and so on), thereby allowing the application to mediate the user interaction with your organization in a sustained and controllable fashion.

• Stage 1: Create
  The create stage consists of package and application development for online, offline, and hybrid applications using a corresponding development archetype.
• Stage 2: Prepare
  In the prepare stage you are preparing SAP Mobile Server to support mobile applications and serve data to them.
• Stage 3: Provision
  Provision the application to supported devices along with any required artifacts. Provisioning techniques vary depending on the application.
• Stage 4: Activate
  The application activation stage defines all activities that relate to the start-up of and formal entry of an application and a known or anonymous user into the SAP Mobile Platform runtime. It ties all entities together by associating a user with the application and its resources (connections, customizations, and packages).