AEM Mobile Apps Concept

[#1]

Hi all,

I am still thinking in the lines of traditional AEM, where author enters the content, and after reviews/approval, it will be pushed to Publish.

And it is the Publish that serves data to the outside world.

This hold good for Mobile Web also.

But for Mobile Apps, we could push from Author to Mobile Apps. is it true? Probably we could push from Publish also.

What is the role of Publish server for AEM Mobile Apps?

Why is it a deviation for mobile apps?

Kindly send me a block diagram which shows author, publish, aem mobile, app store and mobile device.

Thanks,

Rama.

[#2 · Accepted solution]

APPSTORE is for App hosting and distribution

AEM Hybrid/PhoneGap Apps

Content is managed then staged (rendered and packaged into zips) on AEM-AUTHOR and published (zips replicate to) to AEM-PUBLISH.
Apps running on DEVICE can check for and pull app content updates (the packaged zips) from AEM-PUBLISH.

AEM Mobile Apps (using OnDemand Runtime)

Content is managed then uploaded from AEM-AUTHOR to AEM OnDemand hosted services.
AEM-PUBLISH is not used (in a typical deployment) given AEM OnDemand is managing the published content.
Apps running on DEVICE can check for and pull app content updates from OnDemand services.