Maximo Anywhere 7.6.4 - Android Emulator and Debug

Android emulator is a useful tool for testing Anywhere applications on various devices and Android API levels.

Steps

Emulator various Android devices:

1. Open Android Studio

Go to Tools menu and select SDK manager option

From the SDK Platforms tab, install Android 9 API 28

2. Go to SDK Tools tab, install Android emulator, SDK platform-tools, and SDK tools

3. Go to Tools menu and select AVD manager option

Click Create Virtual Device

Select Phone from the left pane

Select a device.  For example, "Pixel 2" device

4. Click Download 

5. Enter a name 

6. Click Finish 

Virtual device is installed

7. Click the play button to launch the AVD in emulator

8. Open a

Windows PowerShell

Navigate to the android SDK platform-tools directory.  For example,

cd C:\Users\MAYON\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\platform-tools

Enter

adb devices 

Output shows the emulator attached

C:\Users\MAYON\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\platform-tools> adb devices
List of devices attached
emulator-5554   device

Install APK file

C:\Users\MAYON\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\platform-tools> adb install C:\Users\MAYON\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\platform-tools\WorkExecution-7.6.4.apk
Performing Streamed Install
Success

9. Go to the emulator and swipe up to show a list of applications

10. Open IBM Work app and enter Maximo® URL

11. Log in as a mobile user

12. A work list shows up

About screen shows

Build Number 20200219

Debug in Chrome:

1. Go to Chrome browser and press F12 to invoke Developer Tools

2. Go to "Remote Devices" tab

3. Select the device

4. Click the Inspect button under WebView 

5. Go to the emulator and log in

Alternatively, you can use a real device:

1. Run a build to generate APK

2. Copy the APK file to an Android device and install the APK

3. Install Vysor 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eN2_NgADKQ&t=7s

4. Connect Android Device to a development machine via a USB cable

5. Go to Chrome browser and press F12 to invoke Developer Tools

6. Go to "Remote Devices" tab and select "Discover USB Devices" checkbox

7. Select the device

8. Click the Inspect button  and select "Discover USB Devices" checkbox

Run OSLC query from a browser

If you are encountering a performance issue, you can run the query in a browser to check how long it takes to return an output.

1. Copy a OSLC query from Network tab

2. Append the username and password to the end of the url: 

&_lid=username&_lpwd=password

NOTE: replace username and password with the appropriate log in credential

An example OSLC query with username and password:  

http://hostname:port/maximo/oslc/os/oslcinvbalview?savedQuery=test1&oslc.select=dcterms%3Aidentifier%2Cspi%3Abinnum%2Cspi%3Aphyscnt%2Cspi%3Acurbal%2Cspi%3Aconditioncode%2Cspi%3Aitemnum%2Cspi%3Adescription%2Cspi%3Aitemsetid%2Cspi%3Aabctype%2Cspi%3Aissueunit%2Cspi%3Alocation%2Cspi%3Asiteid%2Cspi%3Alotnum%2Cspi%3Aadjustedphyscnt%2Cspi%3Aphyscntdate%2Cspi%3Aadjustedphyscntdate&oslc.pageSize=40&oslc.orderBy=%2Bspi%3Alocation%2C%2Bspi%3Abinnum&_lid=wilson&_lpwd=wilson

Here is an example output:

3. Go to Sources tab and open a javascript file

You can put breakpoints and hover the mouse over variables to check the values