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Try It Out: Building a Mapping Application for iPhone

The Salesforce app supersedes Salesforce Mobile Classic. The Salesforce Classic Mobile app will retire on all supported platforms and devices on December 1, 2017. Customers should transition their users to the Salesforce for Android or iOS or deploy custom mobile apps to address their existing and future mobile needs.

Important

To provide an introduction to mobile development, this chapter includes a set of examples that guide you through the process of building an application for iPhone. The application will use the Google Maps Web API to map hot accounts by customer priority. To follow along with these examples, be sure you meet the following requirements:

  • Developer Edition Organization: Sign up for a Developer Edition organization at Developer Force if you do not already have one.
  • Test Data: In your Developer Edition organization, be sure that your user account includes a valid address. Edit the billing addresses of the following two accounts so that the companies are in proximity to your address:
    • Edge Communications
    • United Oil & Gas Corp.
    Keeping the addresses near one another will make it easier to see all of the accounts on the map while you're testing your examples.
  • UI Library: Download iUI, a third-party library that lets Web applications easily mimic the standard iPhone UI.
  • Google Maps API: Sign up for the Google Maps API to obtain a Maps API key.
  • iPhone Simulator: Download the iPhone simulator so you can test your Visualforce pages in the mobile application.
  • Mobile Configuration: After completing the examples, remember to create a mobile configuration that mobilizes your Visualforce tab and the account object.

The Visualforce Mobile examples for this chapter include: