Upgrade MicroStrategy Mobile for iOS

When you upgrade to a newer version of MicroStrategy Mobile for iOS, the upgrade process depends on how you initially created your custom MicroStrategy Mobile application—in particular, whether you customized the MicroStrategy Mobile sample application provided for you or you used the MicroStrategy Mobile SDK to build your own application.

The steps for upgrading to MicroStrategy Mobile are provided below.

Upgrade MicroStrategy Mobile

1. Upgrade Xcode. See What's New in the Mobile SDK for iOS for the Xcode and Apple iOS SDK versions you need to use to develop and compile your application. Previous versions can be downloaded from the Apple Download site.
2. Download the MicroStrategy Mobile SDK package.
3. Depending on how you customized MicroStrategy Mobile, do one of the following:
   • If you used your own code base, import the new SDK into your code repository and rebuild your app.

   • If you modified the MicroStrategy Mobile sample project directly, you must redo all of your customizations and then build the new app. See the explanation below for how to do this and best practices for making the process easier.

Upgrade a project based on the MicroStrategy Mobile sample project

Because you are installing a new mobile project when you upgrade, the changes you made in your current project will be overwritten. As a result, you must redo all of your customizations.

There are several things you can do to make this process faster and easier. The steps below will make it easier for you or others to understand and recreate existing customizations.

• Each time you customize your MicroStrategy Mobile project:
  • Keep a record of:

    • Purpose of the customization

      Briefly describe what the customization is supposed to accomplish.

    • Project files that were changed

      Make a list of all the files that were changed. For example, .plist or .strings files for iOS, or strings.xml or colors.xml for Android. Describe how to navigate to the file in the project.

    • Specific changes that were made in each project file

      For each changed file, describe the changes in detail. For example, did you replace existing code with new code? Show old and new code and where the change was made in the file. Or, did you add new code? Show new code and where the code was added in the file.

    • New files that were used for the customization

      Make a list of all new files that you added to support the customization. For example, you may have added PNG files to the project to be used for new icons or font files to support new fonts.

  • Save copies of new files that were used for the customization

    You may need these files when you recreate the customization.

  • Create a test script with a set of steps to test the customization

    After you upgrade and recreate the customization, you can use these steps to confirm that it is working in the new MicroStrategy Mobile project. If everything is correct, the customization should accomplish the purpose you described when you initially customized your project.

    It is a good practice to also test each customization before the upgrade to confirm that it is working in the current project. This helps you narrow down any problems that may come up after an upgrade.

• Before you upgrade
  1. Review What's New in the current release to see whether any of your customizations can now be performed out-of-the-box. If so, you will not need to redo these customizations.
  2. Make sure you have backups of any new files you used in customizations.
  3. Make a backup of the plugins folder in your mobile server installation.
  4. Use your test script to test each customization to confirm that it is working correctly in the current version of MicroStrategy Mobile.
• After you upgrade
  1. After you download the newest MicroStrategy Mobile project, copy the customization plug-ins in the backup plugins folder to the plugins folder in your mobile server installation.
  2. Use your test script to test each customization to see whether it is working correctly in the upgraded version of MicroStrategy Mobile.
  3. If the customization is not working correctly, recreate it using the information you recorded when you initially created the customization.
  4. Use your test script again to test each recreated customization to confirm that it is working correctly in the upgraded version of MicroStrategy Mobile.