Creating a mobile application via Touch UI

[doeringa]

Hi,

according to the Adobe documentation you can create a mobile application either via the AEM PhoneGap Starter Kit and then add that to the App console, or via the Touch UI - http://docs.adobe.com/docs/en/aem/6-0/develop/mobile/apps/apps-console.html#Creating a Mobile Application. 

I am unable to create an app via the Touch UI. When I am on http://localhost:4502/aem/apps.html/content/phonegap and I click on the create (+) - icon I only get the option to create a folder. 

Do I need to install anything else to do this? Or am I in the wrong place? 

Thanks, 

Alex

[gcarlino]

Hi

When I'm on http://localhost:4502/aem/apps.html/content/phonegap and I click the + icon, it opens a wizard which has 4 tabs.
Don't you have this?

I'm using OOTB AEM 6.0.

[Ken_Beaton · Accepted solution]

Hi Alex,

In the AEM6 Mobile Feature Pack (FP1) hosted on Package Share [4], we removed the ability to create an app from within the Apps catalog view.  We expect users will leverage the kickstart apps we've posted on github [0] to learn and create custom new apps.  The expected workflow is to copy (or fork) one of the kickstarts and using Maven, deploy into your local (or remote) instance of the AEM6 (FP1) quickstart using the command line, "mvn clean install -PautoInstallPackage" (see the readme with each kickstart for specifics).  The benefit of this approach is that we help bootstrap your development environment and supply an easy command line method to vlt into your quickstart.  Alternatively, you can edit the Geometrixx Outdoors reference implementation we ship with the release (note there is an update to this on package share as well [3]).

[0] https://github.com/Adobe-Marketing-Cloud/app-sample-android-phonegap

[1] https://github.com/Adobe-Marketing-Cloud/aem-phonegap-starter-kit and,

[2] https://github.com/blefebvre/aem-phonegap-kitchen-sink (my favourite)

[3] http://localhost:4502/crx/packageshare/index.html/content/marketplace/marketplaceProxy.html?packageP...

[4] http://localhost:4502/crx/packageshare/index.html/content/marketplace/marketplaceProxy.html?packageP...

Hope this helps. 

[doeringa]

Hi Ken, 

I do indeed have the Feature Pack installed, so it makes sense that I can't create an app via Touch UI 🙂

Thanks for your help and the links,

Alex