Mobile Apps Auto-Update

Created using Neptune Cockpit , runs in browser/mobile hybrid app / Neptune Mobile Client, typically as a Tile in your Launchpads.

The Neptune AppCache framework ensures that, as long as the user has connectivity, the latest active version of each App is loaded in the browser / mobile hybrid client app, without the need of updating / installing the latest.

This means that as soon as you modify and activate a Neptune app, the latest version of the app will be loaded in the browser / mobile hybrid client app.  The second time you load the same app, it will be loaded from cache → allowing its offline usage.

Modifying a Neptune App does not require you to update the Mobile Client you use to consume its latest version.

EXCEPTION:  the only exception to this rule are changes made to NEPTUNE_LAUNCHPAD_MOBILE.  Changes to this Neptune-Core App will require you to re-build and re-deploy your Mobile Launchpad.

Created using Cockpit & Adobe PhoneGap Build service, allows you to consume Neptune Launchpads and Apps on a mobile device.

Changes performed to the Mobile Launchpad regarding icons, plugins, permissions, logon, header, config.xml  will require you to rebuild and republish a new version of the Mobile Hybrid App.

In the Neptune Cockpit , all settings that you change in the first four tabs of your Launchpad (screenshot below) will require a new Build.

If you published your Mobile Launchpad (hybrid app) to Neptune Application Catalog and enabled Auto Update

The version which is marked as active (NAM - Launchpad) is the one which will be pushed to your mobile users, automatically when they Log-on / Unlock.

Tiles added/removed/changed in your mobile Launchpad will be reflected as soon as you logon - unlock (and have connectivity).

There is no need to update the Mobile Client Hybrid app in order to fetch the latest Tile changes.

Neptune AppCache caching mechanism is only applied for loading Neptune Apps.

If a Tile loads an external URL / SAP Transaction / SAP Fiori App, it will always do it online and get the latest available version from the corresponding source.