documentation/content/developer/reference/frontend/mobile.rst

.. _reference/mobile:

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Mobile JavaScript
==================

Introduction
============

In Odoo 10.0 we released a mobile app which allows you to access all **Odoo apps**
(even your customized modules). 

The application is a combination of **Odoo Web** and **Native Mobile
components**. In other words it is a Odoo Web instance loaded inside a native, mobile, WebView container.

This page documents how you can access mobile native components like Camera,
Vibration, Notification and Toast through Odoo Web (via JavaScript). For this, you
do not need to be a mobile developer, if you know Odoo JavaScript API you can
access all available mobile features.

.. warning:: These features work with **Odoo Enterprise 10.0+** only

How does it work? 
=================

Internal workings of the mobile application:

.. image:: mobile/mobile_working.jpg

Of course, it is a web page that loads on a Mobile Native Web container. But it
is integrated in such a way that you can access native resources from your web
JavaScript.

WebPages (Odoo Web) is on the top of each layer, where the second layer is a Bridge
between Odoo Web (JS) and the native mobile components.

When any call from JavaScript is triggered it passes through Bridge and Bridge
passes it to the native invoker to perform that action.

When the native component has done its work, it is passed to the Bridge again and
you get the output in JavaScript.

Process time taken by the Native component depends on what you are requesting
from the Native resources. For example the Camera or GPS Location.

How to use it?
==============

Just like the Odoo Web Framework, the Mobile API can be used anywhere by getting the object from
**web_mobile.rpc**

.. image:: mobile/odoo_mobile_api.png

The mobile RPC object provides a list of methods that are available (this only works with the mobile
app). 

Check if the method is available and then execute it.

Methods
-------

.. note:: Each of the methods returns a JQuery Deferred object which returns
   a data JSON dictionary

Show Toast in device
.....................

.. js:function:: showToast

	:param object args: **message** text to display

A toast provides simple feedback about an operation in a small popup. It only
fills the amount of space required for the message and the current activity
remains visible and interactive.

.. code-block:: javascript

	mobile.methods.showToast({'message': 'Message sent'});

.. image:: mobile/toast.png


Vibrating device
................


.. js:function:: vibrate

	:param object args: Vibrates constantly for the specified period of time
	       (in milliseconds).

Vibrate mobile device with given duration.

.. code-block:: javascript

	mobile.methods.vibrate({'duration': 100});

Show snackbar with action
.........................

.. js:function:: showSnackBar

	:param object args: (*required*) **Message** to show in snackbar and action **button label** in Snackbar (optional)
	:returns:  ``True`` if the user clicks on the Action button, ``False`` if SnackBar auto dismissed after some time.

Snackbars provide lightweight feedback about an operation. They show a brief
message at the bottom of the screen on mobile or in the lower left corner on larger devices.
Snackbars appear above all the other elements on the screen and only one can be
displayed at a time.

.. code-block:: javascript

	mobile.methods.showSnackBar({'message': 'Message is deleted', 'btn_text': 'Undo'}).then(function(result){
		if(result){
			// Do undo operation
		}else{
			// Snack Bar dismissed
		}
	});

.. image:: mobile/snackbar.png

Showing notification
.....................

.. js:function:: showNotification

	:param object args: **title** (first row) of the notification, **message** (second row) of the notification, in a standard notification.

A notification is a message you can display to the user outside of your
application's normal UI. When you tell the system to issue a notification, it
first appears as an icon in the notification area. To see the details of the
notification, the user opens the notification drawer. Both the notification
area and the notification drawer are system-controlled areas that the user can
view at any time.

.. code-block:: javascript
	
	mobile.showNotification({'title': 'Simple Notification', 'message': 'This is a test for a simple notification'})

.. image:: mobile/mobile_notification.png


Create contact in device
.........................

.. js:function:: addContact

	:param object args: Dictionary with contact details. Possible keys (name, mobile, phone, fax, email, website, street, street2, country_id, state_id, city, zip, parent_id, function and image)

Create a new device contact with the given contact details.

.. code-block:: javascript
	
	var contact = {
		'name': 'Michel Fletcher',
		'mobile': '9999999999',
		'phone': '7954856587',
		'fax': '765898745',
		'email': 'michel.fletcher@agrolait.example.com',
		'website': 'http://www.agrolait.com',
		'street': '69 rue de Namur',
		'street2': false,
		'country_id': [21, 'Belgium'],
		'state_id': false,
		'city': 'Wavre',
		'zip': '1300',
		'parent_id': [8, 'Agrolait'],
		'function': 'Analyst',
		'image': '<<BASE 64 Image Data>>'
	}

	mobile.methods.addContact(contact);

.. image:: mobile/mobile_contact_create.png

Scanning barcodes
..................

.. js:function:: scanBarcode

	:returns: Scanned ``code`` from any barcode

The barcode API detects barcodes in real-time, on the device, in any orientation.

The barcode API can read the following barcode formats:

* 1D barcodes: EAN-13, EAN-8, UPC-A, UPC-E, Code-39, Code-93, Code-128, ITF, Codabar
* 2D barcodes: QR Code, Data Matrix, PDF-417, AZTEC

.. code-block:: javascript

	mobile.methods.scanBarcode().then(function(code){
		if(code){
			// Perform operation with the scanned code
		}
	});

Switching account in device
...........................

.. js:function:: switchAccount

Use switchAccount to switch from one account to another on the device.

.. code-block:: javascript
	
	mobile.methods.switchAccount();

.. image:: mobile/mobile_switch_account.png