Creating the Example Android App

The following section describes the procedure to create the example Android App.

1. Open Microsoft Visual Studio.
2. Select Android in the sidebar, and create a new Blank App (Android) using .NET Framework 4.5. (Visual C# is used in this example).



3. Set the Name and Solution Name properties to ‘ArasAndroid’
4. Add any required references to the Solution. The following is required for this example:
1. Right-click on References in the Solution Explorer and select Add References.
2. Select the Browse tab and return IOM.Android.dll from the ‘bin\Debug’ folder of the Solution. The files can be copied to this location from the ‘\Utilities\Aras Innovator <Version> IOM SDK\COM\Android’ directory on the Aras Innovator CD Image.

In order to interact with the Android App, open the Resources --> layout --> Main.axml.

This example uses the default layout as shown in Figure 3.

Once you add the interactive elements to the App, configure a Click Event to ‘MyButton’ using the following code, modifying the properties where appropriate for the server:

// Get our button from the layout resource,

// and attach an event to it

Button button = FindViewById<Button>(Resource.Id.MyButton);

button.Click += async delegate

{

//create connection to Innovator server

HttpServerConnection connection = IomFactory.CreateHttpServerConnection(“http://localhost/InnovatorServer/Server/InnovatorServer.aspx”, “InnovatorSolutions”, “admin”, “innovator”);

//login

try

{

Item user = await connection.LoginAsync();

}

catch (Exception e)

{

throw e;

}

//create innovator and send a request to the server

Innovator innovator = IomFactory.CreateInnovator(connection);

Item queryVariable = innovator.newItem(“Variable”, “get”);

queryVariable.setProperty(“name”, “IncludedSolutions”);

Item variable = await queryVariable.applyAsync();

if (variable.isError())

{

throw new Exception(variable.getErrorString());

}

button.Text = variable.getProperty(“value”);

};