PowerServer Mobile Tutorials

Appeon® PowerServer® 2020

FOR WINDOWS & UNIX & LINUX

DOCUMENT ID: ADC50001-01-2020-01

LAST REVISED: August 01, 2022

Copyright © Appeon. All rights reserved.

This publication pertains to Appeon software and to any subsequent release until otherwise indicated in new editions or technical notes. Information in this document is subject to change without notice. The software described herein is furnished under a license agreement, and it may be used or copied only in accordance with the terms of that agreement.

No part of this publication may be reproduced, transmitted, or translated in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, manual, optical, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of Appeon Inc.

Appeon, the Appeon logo, Appeon PowerBuilder, Appeon PowerServer, PowerServer, PowerServer Toolkit, AEM, and PowerServer Web Component are trademarks of Appeon Inc.

SAP, Sybase, Adaptive Server Anywhere, SQL Anywhere, Adaptive Server Enterprise, iAnywhere, Sybase Central, and Sybase jConnect for JDBC are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP and SAP affiliate company.

Java and JDBC are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc.

All other company and product names used herein may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

Use, duplication, or disclosure by the government is subject to the restrictions set forth in subparagraph (c)(1)(ii) of DFARS 52.227-7013 for the DOD and as set forth in FAR 52.227-19(a)-(d) for civilian agencies.

Appeon Inc., 1/F, Shell Industrial Building, 12 Lee Chung Street, Chai Wan District, Hong Kong.


Table of Contents

Tutorial 1: Set up the Environment
Task 1: Prepare the machine
Task 1.1: Disable UAC (User Account Control)
Task 1.2: Uninstall previous version of 64-bit PowerServer
Task 1.3: Install IIS
Task 1.4: Configure IIS
Task 2: Install PowerBuilder and PowerServer
Task 2.1: Install PowerBuilder and PowerServer
Task 2.2: Verify the installation
Task 3: Install Appeon Workspace (on the Android device)
Task 4: Configure the network connection
Tutorial 2: Config, Deploy & Run the Application
Task 1: Configure the database type
Task 2: Configure the database connection
Task 3: Configure and deploy the application
Task 4: Run the Web version of the application (in IE)
Task 5: Run the mobile version of the application (on the Android device)
Tutorial 3: Develop & Debug with PowerServer Mobile
Point 1: Mobile UI Considerations
Point 2: Unsupported Features
Point 3: Previewing & Debugging
Tutorial 4: Package & Distribute Native Mobile Apps
Overview
Package & Distribute iOS Apps
Task 1: Prepare for the build environment
Task 2: Generate the Xcode project
Task 3: Create the app archive
Task 4: Distribute the app archive
Package & Distribute Android Apps
Task 1: Generate the Android project
Task 2: Generate the Android AAB or APK
Task 3: Distribute the Android AAB or APK
Tutorial 5: Configure PowerServer Cluster
Task 1: Understand the cluster architecture
Task 2: Install PowerServer to multiple application servers
Task 3: Create a PowerServer cluster in AEM
Task 4: Configure the Web server for the PowerServer cluster
Task 4.1: Important notes for installing IIS
Task 4.2: Install the PowerServer Web Component on Web server
Task 4.3: Configure the Web server with the Appeon cluster plug-in
Special instructions for Auto Scaling in Amazon Web Service
Task 5: Deploy or Install the application to the PowerServer cluster and Web server(s)
Points to note before installation
Installing an application