As you might have noticed from my latest ADF Mobile entries, I'm doing most of my ADF Mobile development on a windows
machine and testing on an Android device. Unfortunately
the Android/windows experience is not as fast as
the iOS/Mac one.
However, there is one thing I learned today that can make this a bit less painful in terms of
the speed to deploy and test your application - and this is to use
the "Release" mode when deploying your application instead of
the "Debug" mode.
To do this you'll first need to define a keystore, but as Joe from our Mobile team showed me today, this is quite easy.
Here are
the steps:
Open a command line in your JDK bin directory (I just used
the JDK that comes with
the JDeveloper install).
Issue
the following command:
keytool –genkey –v –keystore <Keystore Name>.keystore –alias <Alias Name> -keyalg RSA –keysize 2048 –validity 10000
Both keystore name and alias names are strings that you decide on.
The keytool utility will then prompt you with various questions that you'll need to answer.
Once this is done,
the next step is to configure your JDeveloper preferences->ADF Mobile to add this keystore there under
the release tab:
Then for your application specific deployment profile - switch
the build mode from debug to release.
The end result is a much smaller mobile application (for example from 60 to 21mb) and a much faster deployment cycle (for me it is about twice as fast as before).
