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How to use MotherApp Sandbox to make a trial application

Introduction

You can use MotherApp Sandbox to generate a trial application that is written by MotherApp HTML. You can use MotherApp Sandbox to generate for different platforms such as iPhone, Android and BlackBerry.

Steps

  1. Fill in the information for Email, Server URL, Application Name and Platforms
    Field Description
    Email Your email. (When the app is generated, sandbox will send you the result.)
    Server URL The first url of your MotherApp HTML application
    Application Name Application name
    Platforms The mobile platform(s) you want to generate

  2. If you select platform "iPhone", you need to provide the iPhone development certificate, provisioning profile and private key to the sandbox to generate the trial app. (Please read How to make iPhone compilation zip file)
  3. Click "Submit"
  4. After completion of generation, MotherApp Sandbox would send you an email that have the download links of the application
  5. For iPhone, you can download it to the desktop and use iTunes to download the program to the device. (How to install trial app on iPhone).
    For Android and BlackBerry, you can browse the download link using the device directly and click "Android" or "BlackBerry" to download and install the application.

What Resources Are Available to Me as a Developer?

  • MotherApp HTML Reference
    Click here to see the complete reference for MotherApp HTML. You can select having the code elements displayed by category, alphabetically, or with associated screen shots.
  • Development Tools
    • Click here to use the MotherApp Debugger.
      Use the debugger test your application using a web browser (the Safari 4, Firefox 3.5 and Google Chrome browsers are recommended). The generated user interface may differ somewhat from the display on any particular device (since the app will display natively, and therefore differently, on each platform), but the debugger accepts the same MotherApp HTML as the devEngine. It will allow you to to check the syntax for your MotherApp HTML pages.
    • Click here to use the MotherApp Sandbox
      The MotherApp sandbox helps generates the testing version of app that could be actually deployed to the devices.
    • Click here to view our set of sample apps.
  • More Information
    • Click here to view our list of MotherApp "How to"s. For example, "how to deliver your completed app," or "how to launch the video player."
    • Click here to view the answers to our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
    • Click here to go to our Support Forum.