Set Up Initial Configuration for an MDK App

The mobile development kit (MDK) enables developers and technical business users to build cross-platform mobile applications in an integrated development environment, and run it natively on mobile devices (Android & iOS).

You can find more details on the mobile development kit developer page.

Make sure that you have completed required prerequisites mentioned in this tutorial.

1. Navigate to the SAP Mobile Services Admin UI.

2. On the home screen, click Create New App or navigate to Mobile Applications → Native/MDK → New.

   

3. In the Type of Application step, select the Mobile Development Kit (MDK) and choose Next.

   

4. In the Basic Info step, provide the required information and choose Next.

   Field	Value
   ID	myapp.mdk.demo
   Name	SAP MDK Demo App

   

   Other fields are optional. For more information about these fields, see Creating Applications in the SAP documentation.

5. In the Security Settings step, continue with the default settings and choose Next.

   

6. In the Role Settings step, continue with the default settings and choose Next.

   

7. In the Assign Features step, select Sample OData ESPM from the feature list, and choose Next.

   

   A sample OData Enterprise Sales and Procurement Model (ESPM) service is available in Mobile Services admin UI for developers to use during development and testing. For MDK tutorials, you will be using this service. You can of course add your OData or REST service connecting to your backend system as covered in the next step.

8. In the Review step, you can verify the details of the application definition that you are creating. Make sure all the details are correct. Choose Edit to make any necessary modifications to the section. Choose Finish to create the mobile application configuration. This process may take 2-3 minutes.

   

   If you see a Application is without Role Settings warning message, choose OK. You may assign roles after the app has been configured, if needed.

   Once you have created your application, you see a list of default features have been automatically assigned to the app.

   

   You can find more information on available features in SAP Mobile Services in help documentation.

1. Click Sample OData ESPM.

   

2. By default, OData Version 4 is selected. You can explore through different options. For example, you can access the OData service document, view the metadata document, examine data, generate test data, or reset it to its initial state.

   

   When you view the data, you might see something like this instead of the nicely formatted output from above.

   

   However, this doesn’t mean you’ve made a mistake in the tutorial. Rather, this is the correct output without any formatting. If you’d like to see a formatted output in your browser, you can add an JSON Formatter extension to your browser.