About Mobile Px App

You can use the Mobile Px app to create your own app views in the Px Editor. Use the standard Px Editor to design views with navigation and custom controls that display and work well in a handheld device.
 IMPORTANT: In latest versions of Niagara, the legacy Niagara Mobile technology is deprecated. Although it continues to be supported and works as expected, you should not use it for any new projects. Instead, use the mobile-friendly features of the HTML5 Hx Profile which provides a significantly improved mobile user experience. 

The Mobile Px app allows you to create your own app views in the Px Editor, without having to use any software programming language. This includes the ability to use the standard Px Editor to design views with navigation and custom controls that display and work well in a hand held device. Essentially, you can think of this app as being an app builder itself.

Figure 84.   Mobile Px app in Workbench and Mobile Desktop view
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Mobile Px provides a way for you to present live data and field editors in expandable lists that are designed to work well with mobile devices. It is not for absolutely positioning graphics or other media on the page, such as you would for designing a visual layout of a controls system. So, when you create views with this Mobile Px, the display is not an exact representation of what you have in the Px Editor or what you would expect to see when you are displaying views created in Hx. Instead, for Mobile Px views, the Px Editor works as a tool to create views that the Mobile Px app interprets and presents using such mobile-friendly features as: rounded buttons, liquid layout, dynamic views, and others.

However, many of the standard Px graphic widget and property options are still available for configuring your Px page, including:

  • Buttons

    Add standard buttons (Action Button, Hyperlink Button, Save Button) from the kitPx palette. These buttons work the same but appear rounded in mobile views.

  • Labels and bound labels

    Add standard labels from the kitPx palette.

  • Field editors
  • Graphic alignment
  • Font family
  • Font size and style