In its latest release, the MobileTogether app development framework adds several new features for building native mobile apps and enterprise solutions, including a totally rewritten web client, numerous new UI design options, powerful new Actions and functions, and much more.

Whether it’s refining the look and feel of your app’s UI or designing sophisticated app behavior, MobileTogether 5.0 adds numerous tools that make it easy.

Let’s take a look.

Totally re-written web client

While MobileTogether is best known as a rapid mobile application development (RMAD) framework for iOS, Android, and Windows apps, the platform is equally well suited for building sophisticated web applications.

In the latest version, the web browser client has been completely revamped. Controls and icons have been redesigned, and overall the UI of your web apps will be more crisp, clean, and attractive.

Because a single design in MobileTogether Designer generates native apps for all platforms as well as a web app, the same functionality and sophistication that are available for building custom, feature-rich mobile apps is extended to developing web apps for any industry or purpose.

New UI design options

With every release we’re adding new options to sharpen and perfect the UI of your apps. New in the latest version:

• Support for configuring borders in tables with an intuitive new dialog:

• Support for padding in controls
• Buttons that include both text and images, plus a collection of new pre-defined images
• Options for managing long text in controls with auto-font sizing or ellipses
• Copy/paste support for stylesheets – copy across one app design or into another design:

New Actions

MobileTogether Actions make it easy to create sophisticated event handlers, operations, and control flow in cross-platform apps. New Actions in this version include the ability to load data to/from text files (adding to existing support for XML and JSON), as well as support for sending files and binary data via the REST interface.

New Functions

Several new functions have been introduced, including:

• mt-get-page-source-structure – use the definition of a page source to create a structure automatically
• create-hash-from-string – creates a hash string from any text using different hashing algorithms
• mt-table-rowgroup-count – returns the count of table row groups
• mt-table-rowgroup-index – returns the index (position) of the current row group
• mt-called-by-enter-key & mt-called-by-escape-key – to design app behavior for keyboard key vs. mobile device tap

New Database Functionality

MobileTogether connects to all major relational databases, and support has been updated to include the newest versions of several of those, as listed below.

• Firebird 3
• Informix 12.10
• MariaDb 10.3
• Microsoft SQL Server 2017
• MySQL 8
• PostgreSQL 10

An additional new action makes it possible to retrieve a database structure at runtime, which is great for building IT-focused apps.

Global Find & Replace

To make developing and refactoring complex apps easier, MobileTogether now has a helpful Find & Replace Pane for searching for and/or replacing strings in XPath expressions, functions, and action groups across a design.

For quick navigation, search results are hyperlinked to the relevant objects in your design.

New in MobileTogether Server

The processing powerhouse for MobileTogether apps and enterprise solutions now supports LDAP for authentication in addition to Active Directory.

Support for automated backup of the MobileTogether Server internal database is now also available.

Get MobileTogether Now

Existing customers can update to MobileTogether 5.0 for free. If you’re not already a customer, you can download the free MobileTogether Designer to get started on your first app!