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IBM Worklight Mobile Application Development Essentials

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IBM Worklight Mobile Application Development Essentials

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (15 chapters)
IBM Worklight Mobile Application Development Essentials
Credits
About the Authors
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Worklight project and application structure


The project name used within Worklight Studio is HelloWorld, and the display name of the app will be HelloWorld, as defined earlier in step 4 of the Creating a simple IBM Worklight application section. To change the name, follow the steps defined as follows:

  1. If the project is not opened, double-click on the application-descriptor.xml file in Project Explorer to open in Application Descriptor Editor.

  2. On the design tab, change the Display name attribute from HelloWorld to any other name of your choice.

    You can also change the description by editing the Description attribute.

  3. Save and close the application-descriptor.xml file.

Now, let's move on to the structure of the application. The default environment is called the common environment. It is responsible for holding every component and file related to the app, which shares its resources with the environment.

Application resources

In order to run the Worklight app on multiple devices, you must have the...