Mobile SDK

Mobile SDK Development Guide

This guide introduces you to Salesforce Mobile SDK and teaches you how to design, develop, and manage mobile applications for the cloud. Topics cover all platforms supported by Mobile SDK, including native iOS, native Android, React Native, hybrid, and web.

Reference Documentation

Mobile SDK Android Reference

Reference documentation for using Mobile SDK with Android.

Reference Documentation

Mobile SDK iOS Core Reference

Reference documentation for using Mobile SDK with iOS.

Developer Guide

Offline Management for Android and iOS apps using Salesforce Mobile SDK

Documentation for SmartStore and Mobile Sync, the Salesforce Mobile SDK modules that store and synchronize data for offline use.

Developer Guide

Mobile Notifications Implementation Guide

Standard and custom notifications can reach customers wherever they are when business events occur in their orgs. Push your notifications to devices, or deliver them within Salesforce and custom apps.

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Documentation

Tools

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Transform Your Business with Mobile

700 PointsLearn how mobile apps can transform your business and improve employee productivity.

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Develop with Mobile SDK

3500 PointsCreate your own iOS, Android, or hybrid mobile apps powered by the Salesforce Platform.

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Get Started with iOS App Development

2900 PointsBuild your first iOS apps using the Swift programming language and the iOS Software Development Kit (SDK).

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Set Up Your Mobile SDK Developer Tools

500 PointsSet up your development tools for creating apps with Mobile SDK.

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Get Started with Mobile Application Security Engineering

600 PointsPrepare for a career as a mobile application security engineer.

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Quick Take: Bring Your Salesforce Mobile SDK Apps to Apple Vision Pro

Quick Take: Enabling Biometric Authentication on Mobile SDK Apps

Dreamforce 2023: Get Started with Mobile Development

Quick Take: Building Offline Apps with the Mobile SDK

LWC for Mobile/Mobile SDK: Ask Me Anything with Salesforce Developers

Trailhead Trail Together — Native iOS

Developer Preview Live - Release Readiness Live, Winter '22

Build, Preview and Debug with Salesforce Mobile Tools

Building Apps with the Salesforce Mobile SDK for iOS

Tips for Building Mobile Apps with the Salesforce Mobile SDK

Secure Apps Using the Salesforce Mobile SDK

Videos

Bring Your Salesforce Mobile SDK Apps to Apple Vision Pro

Kevin Qi

Shows how to use the latest updates in the Salesforce Mobile SDK 12.2 to build ready-to-use, customizable business apps for Apple Vision Pro.

December 03, 2024

Building Offline-Ready Mobile Apps with Salesforce

Nico Wolny

Covers important considerations for architects who need to build offline-ready mobile applications.

February 09, 2023

Learn MOAR in Winter ’22 with Mobile Enhancements

Sue Berry

Overview of Winter ’22 Mobile Enhancements for developers, including the Salesforce mobile app emulator builds, validators in VS Code, and improvements in Mobile SDK 9.0 and 9.1.

September 07, 2021

Bring Your Salesforce Mobile SDK Apps to Macs Powered by M1

Sue Berry

Learn how starting with Salesforce Mobile SDK for iOS, Mac Catalyst developers can quickly and easily run their iPhone and iPad apps on Mac, including the latest iMac, 13-inch MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, and Mac mini powered by Apple’s M1 chip.

June 25, 2021

What's New in Mobile SDK 9.0?

Sue Berry

Your multitasking end-users will jump for joy with our support for multiple windows for iPadOS. Manage different accounts, records, and use cases side-by-side. You spoke, we listened. Based on developer feedback, we have added an external ID to eliminate duplication of records after a sync restart for parent/child info. No need to code this yourself, we’ve done it for you. And… we highlight the power of open source. We’ve incorporated TypeScript for React Native with the help of a community contribution! Now, React Native developers can leverage the debugging and error detection features of TypeScript early and often during mobile app development.

February 11, 2021

Build Mobile SDK Apps That Combine Lightning Web Components with Native Functionality

Sue Berry

Lightning Web Components (LWC) are reusable components that provide data in context on Salesforce pages. They are custom HTML elements built using HTML and modern JavaScript. Salesforce Mobile SDK enables developers to build custom mobile applications tailored to their specific business and UI needs. With the release of Salesforce Mobile SDK 8.2, it’s easy for developers to include the power of Lightning Web Components within their custom mobile applications.

September 23, 2020

Custom Notifications for your Mobile SDK Apps

Sue Berry

With the release of Salesforce Mobile SDK 8.2, you can include custom notifications in your Mobile SDK applications. This has been a huge request from our customers who will now be able to leverage all the great aspects of the Salesforce Notification Builder feature.

August 27, 2020

Getting Started with the New Salesforce Mobile SDK for iOS

Kevin Poorman

As part of Salesforce's partnership with Apple, we introduced the new version of the Salesforce Mobile iOS Software Development Kit (SDK) – the first Salesforce Mobile SDK that is optimized for Swift, Apple’s powerful and intuitive modern programming language.

January 09, 2019

Using Siri with the Salesforce Mobile SDK

René Winkelmeyer

App extensions for iOS have been around for some time. They let you implement interesting use cases—if you know the right technology and some tips and tricks. In this blog post, you learn how to use the Salesforce Mobile SDK in conjunction with the SiriKit extension—and how to make Siri create Chatter posts for you.

April 24, 2017

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Episode 99: Mobile Development with Sue Berry

9/13/2021

Sue Berry is a Senior Director of Product Management here at Salesforce. She started her career in cardiology but as soon as she was introduced to computers she was hooked. Now she gets to interact with every side of Salesforce in her current role: the developers, the customers, and everything in between.24 min

Episode 9: Mobile Development with Qingqing Liu

12/23/2019

Qingqing discusses the goal of providing the best experience for the user through staying ahead of two different trends: where Salesforce is heading as a company from the business side and where the mobile industry is heading on the technology side.12 min

Developer Podcast

Tune in to our Developer Podcast hosted by René Winkelmeyer, Senior Director of Salesforce Developer Relations, and featuring our developer advocates. Hear insightful stories, quick tips, and relevant updates for the Salesforce Developer community.

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Redwoods Insurance

Sample car insurance app. Redwoods Insurance is a fictitious car insurance company. This application, which consists of a Salesforce Lightning Console app and a mobile application for iOS, helps agents and customers with insurance claims. Customers use the mobile application to capture pictures and other details about accidents.

Mobile SDK Development Guide

Mobile SDK Android Reference

Mobile SDK iOS Core Reference

Offline Management for Android and iOS apps using Salesforce Mobile SDK

Mobile Notifications Implementation Guide

Documentation

In-App Developer Support Tools

Mobile SDK - iOS Libraries

Mobile SDK - Android Libraries

Mobile SDK - iOS Package

Mobile SDK - Android Package

Mobile SDK - Hybrid Package

Mobile SDK - React Native Package

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