Configuring AEM to work with AEM Mobile

Set up an AEM instance that runs with an Adobe Experience Manager Mobile project. After you integrate AEM with AEM Mobile, articles you create in AEM wil appear in the AEM Mobile On-Demand Portal. You can create and manage content for mobile applications using AEM’s tools while using AEM Mobile’s On-Demand services for easy distribution of mobile content.

To set up an AEM instance that runs with Adobe Experience Manager Mobile, you need access to the following items.

• AEM 6.1 or AEM 6.2.
• AEM Mobile Master Admin access to an AEM Mobile account.
  
• API keys for AEM Mobile.

If you are running AEM 6.2, no additional packages are needed.

In order to configure AEM to work with AEM Mobile, you need AEM 6.1 with the following packages:

• Service Package 1 (aem-service-pkg-bundles-6.1.SP1.zip)
  
• Feature Package 3 (cq-6.1.0-apps-featurepack-3.0.0.zip)
  
• Feature Package 3 Samples (cq-6.1.0-apps-featurepack-samples-3.0.0.zip)

For information about installing feature packages for AEM 6.1, see How to Work With Packages.

When you configure AEM instance to work with AEM Mobile, you need to configure the instance using an account that will tie AEM to a specific AEM Mobile project. That way, you can create articles in AEM and view those articles in the AEM Mobile project.

You will use this Adobe ID later when configuring your AEM instance for AEM Mobile.

Valid API credentials are required to take advantage of On-Demand Services APIs. In this case, the API credentials are required to configure your AEM instance with AEM Mobile.

API credentials consist of the following items:

• API Key & Client Secret are credentials to access the API Gateway.
• Device ID and Device Token are credentials to identify the API user.

You must complete the configuration steps in order for the AEM Mobile On-Demand integrations to function correctly. Configure your AEM instance to work with a specific AEM Mobile account.

Configure your AEM 6.2 instance to work with a specific AEM Mobile account.

Your AEM instance is now configured to create and manage content in your AEM Mobile project.

Whenever you want to shut down your instance of AEM, click the button in the AEM Quickstart window to toggle it off. To restart AEM, double-click the original JAR file that you downloaded.

Creating an app is often the first step towards creating and managing AEM Mobile On-Demand content, and is often performed at the AEM Administrator level. It represents the author-created content such as articles and collections that will appear in the mobile app.

The details of your app can be viewed in its "dashboard". The dashboard is a series of useful tiles which give an overview of the app's content, metadata, and AEM Mobile On-Demand connection status.

Note that the actual app that gets installed on mobile devices is created through the AEM Mobile On-Demand Portal.

For additional information, see Application Create and Configure Actions.

Creating an On-Demand app in AEM 6.2

1. Go the Mobile section. (In AEM 6.2, click Adobe Experience Manager, click the Navigation icon, and then click Mobile.)
   
2. Click Create > App.
3. Choose "AEM Mobile runtime" and click Next.
4. Enter app properties such as Title, Name, Description. The app properties should correspond to the properties used in the AEM Mobile On-Demand Portal, and click Next.
5. Under Manage Connection, select the AEM Mobile account and target project.
   

Creating an On-Demand app in AEM 6.1

1. Within your AEM instance, click “Apps” in the let nav bar.
2. Click + Create > Create App, select “Adobe Digital Publishing Solution Mobile App”, and then click Next.
3. Enter app properties such as Title, Name, Description. The app properties should correspond to the properties used in the AEM Mobile On-Demand Portal, and click Next.
4. Under Manage Connection, select the AEM Mobile account and target project.