Mobile Application Workbench

The Mobile Application Workbench (MAW) lets you customize mobile applications that you build using Mobile Application Framework (MAF). You can change SAP®-supplied configurations (also called application metadata), package the changes, and deploy them to the SAP Mobile Platform. Packages are provisioned to mobile applications that have subscribed to change notifications.

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Use SAP Mobile Application Workbench to:

View the complete application metadata
Add customer extensions
Provision customer extensions and customer branding without changing code

SAP Mobile Application Workbench helps you create cross-platform configurations that mobile applications can consume by using MAF. By using the editors, wizards and views you can:

Define screen layouts
Configure styles to control the look and feel
Enable your application for multiple languages via localized text files, and so on.

You can use Mobile Application Workbench to generate a set of configuration files called an Application Configuration Profile (ACP), which includes layouts, styles, images, language texts, and other application-related files. ACPs are used in the mobile application runtime environment.

Setting Up the Development Environment
Set up the SAP Mobile Application Workbench development environment.
Application Configuration Profile
An Application Configuration Profile (ACP) defines resources for Mobile Application Framework (MAF) applications. An ACP is a collection of files and folders that are packaged as a JAR file, which you can either upload to the SAP Mobile Platform Server or package with an application.
Perspectives
Mobile Application Workbench perspectives encompass and organize the view layouts.
Wizards
You can use the Mobile Application Workbench wizards to create and configure Application Configuration Profile projects.
Editors
Use the XML text editor to create and edit bindings, localized text, styles, tile containers, and tile layouts.
Tasks
You can create, edit, import, export, and validate Mobile Application Workbench components.