ADF Mobile: Issues faced while migrating from 11.1.2.4 to 12.1.3.0

Till 11.1.2.4 it was ADF Mobile and from 12.1.3.0 it is Mobile Application Framework (MAF). In this blog I am just writing few issues that I have faced while migrating one of my ADF mobile (11.1.2.4) project to MAF.

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Issue 1:
Error: Unable to copy to output directory, D:\<file-path>\ApplicationController\src\META-INF\adfmf-skins.xml not found    ApplicationController.jpr    D:\<file-path>\ApplicationController    ApplicationController.jpr

Error: Unable to copy to output directory, D:\<file-path>\ViewController\src\META-INF\adfmf-feature.xml not found    ViewController.jpr    D:\<file-path>\ViewController    ViewController.jpr

Solution: https://community.oracle.com/thread/3579575
a. Remove .data directory
b. Do a clean build as there is no adfmf-skins.xml. Its changed to maf-skins.xml

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Issue 2: Skin (css file) developed in 11.1.2.4 is not picked
Solution: Use version Id with 12.1.3 to define your skins and also to refer oracle provided base skins, which you are extending.
See bottom of this blog to set correct entries of maf-skin.xml and maf-config.xml

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Issue 3: Error (Line 22, Column 48): Attribute allowDeviceAccess not defined on element adfmf:featureReference
Solution: remove allowDeviceAccess attribute from maf-application.xml

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Issue 4:
Unable to load resource JSON file
/data/data/com.company.AbsenceManagemetn/files/baseProfiles/profile.json
Empty Response
Error: a profile is required to set up the base page
Solution: Problem with skin configuration in maf-skins.xml file. Start using skin versioning
See bottom of this blog to set correct entries of maf-skin.xml and maf-config.xml


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Issue 5: KXmlUtil.loadFromXml Unexpected element - HTML Expected schema
Solution: Redeploy apk and use that.

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Issue 6: The custom authentication page does not have credentials field.
Solution: This issue only occurs if we have created custom login page in 11.1.2.4 by copying adf-mobile-provided-login-pages-and-js. We need to again copy new login page and customize that as per our need. 


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Correct way of extending skins in MAF

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