Matrix of features and platforms


Persistent Mobile Foundation provides many features and supports many platforms.

The following table applies to each of the mobile operating system versions and Mobile OS features mapping that are supported by the Persistent Mobile Foundation Server 10.x.

Features iOS Hybrid Android Hybrid iOS Native Android Native Desktop/Mobile Web
Run-time Application          
Offline mode Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes1
Application Internationalization Yes2 Yes2 Yes3 Yes3 Yes
Back-end integration Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Compressible communication between device and adapter Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Rest based adapter access Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Logging of in-application user activities Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
On-device encryptable JSON database Yes Yes Yes Yes No4
Encrypted offline cache Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Analytics dashboard Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Application development          
Optimization framework Yes5 Yes5 N/A N/A Yes5
Integration with native screens Yes Yes Yes6 Yes6 No7
Integration with native functionality Yes Yes Yes8 Yes8 Yes
Client API to dynamically change server address Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Application center Yes Yes Yes Yes N/A
Application management          
Remote disable Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Direct update Yes9 Yes9 N/A N/A N/A
Server-stored user preferences Yes Yes No No Yes
Heartbeat Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Push Notifications          
Client-side subscription APIs Yes Yes10 Yes Yes N/A
Server-side push APIs and subscription management Yes Yes Yes Yes N/A
Server-side SMS notifications and subscription management Yes Yes Yes Yes N/A
Security features          
Offline authentication, based on JSON database Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Application authenticity testing Yes Yes Yes Yes N/A
Integrity verification of JavaScript code Yes Yes N/A N/A N/A
In-application web resources encryption Yes Yes N/A N/A N/A
Secure Container with MaaS360 Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Authentication integration framework Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Managed authenticated sessions with configurable expiration Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Data protection realms Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Device authentication Yes Yes Yes Yes N/A

Footnotes

  1. Using the browser cache. ↩

  2. Not including notification. ↩ ↩2

  3. Using the application for user messages. Worklight messages are “As-is”. ↩ ↩2

  4. Secured JSON DB is natively implemented for only Dev environment. ↩

  5. Via Cordova ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  6. Use native lib to develop UI with WLClient, or add web pages to iOS/Android app. ↩ ↩2

  7. Only through NativePage. ↩

  8. Via Cordova, use native lib to develop UI with WLClient, or add web pages to iOS/Android app. ↩ ↩2

  9. Direct Update + Direct Update Authenticity. ↩ ↩2

  10. Not in Kindle Fire as Amazon stripped C2DM and FCM support from their Android OS version. ↩

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