Maximo Anywhere Now Available on Google Play

In the summer of 2017, IBM released the Maximo Anywhere application to the Apple app store, and at the beginning of 2018, all 9 core Maximo Anywhere applications were released to the Google Play store. The requirements and restrictions are very similar to those for the App Store release,

Supported Features:

• Camera

• GPS

• Online maps

• Bar code scanners

• RFID scanners

• Attachments

• Offline mode

• Electronic signature

• Real Signature

• Voice to Text

• UX enhancements:

  • UX resources (view, dialog contents)

  • Data resource (update, deletion, creation of attributes and resources)

  • Messages

  • Javascript enhancements

     

     

What's Required?

Releasing the application to the Google Play store eliminates the APK build process\Distribution, however the Middleware and Anywhere installations are still required

How it Works

Much like the releases of Maximo Anywhere that are available on the App Store, the Google Play apps have the connection settings enabled. You download the pre-built application and point it to your MobileFirst server which uses the deployed adapter to connect to Maximo. If there are any updates to the application on the server side (MobileFirst) those updates will be pushed out to the device automatically, without the user having to re-download the application from the Google Play Store or update the APK via the Application Center or other MDM.

The pre-built apps still require users to build the Maximo Anywhere run time and deploy it to MobileFirst as well as the OSLC adapter. Starting in Maximo Anywhere 7.6.2 there is also a new build command which only builds the artifacts and run time components.

'build mobilefirst'

After running the above build successfully and your MobileFirst components are updated,  search the Google Play store for Maximo Anywhere, you should see the following application, Work Execution, select it. 

For more information on specific requirements please go to the following wiki: Google Play Instructions

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