Hi, Community. Long time ago Alfresco launched their smartphone/tablet application for Android and iOS. Maybe you have some questions like:

• How works & what we can do nowadays?
• What it’s the potential or benefits?
• Has extras cost applied?
• Insert here yours.

And that’s the reason why we are here today: During this post we’ll reviewing  all of these questions and, also, how to set it up locally to play with it just for…

Let’s take a look!

What I can do with this app?

The Alfresco Mobile app (available for iOS and Android) provides access to Alfresco on-premise or to Alfresco in the cloud account. Between other options, we can use it for:

• Access to corporate content depend on your permissions
• Work with documents:
  Ability to comment on content, upload new versions and share content with other users
• Send documents for review and approval to multiple colleagues at once
• Your business-critical content in sync and at your fingertips wherever you are
• Clean mobile UI with easy editing in apps, such as MS office or Apple iWork
• Custom Development:
  As open source projects, customers or partners can use to jump-start custom app
  development
• Compatible with Alfresco One, Community and in the cloud
• Save time working , save money!
• No extra license needed, neither extra cost added 😎

I want more \m/

The goal for this section will be setting up the app with our Alfresco local instance.

What we need:

1. Computer with Alfresco 5.2. installed
2. Smarphone or tablet (iOS or Android)
3. Internet connection (computer and smartphone need to be on same internet connection)

What I’ll use:

• Laptop Mac, with Alfresco 5.2.0 installed
• iPhone with iOS 10
• Internet 🙂

Let’s start:

1. Start our Alfresco instance

   Cristina$ ./alfresco.sh start
   waiting for server to start.... done
   ...
   Tomcat started.
   ...
   

2. Check your laptop IP address with command ifconfig (Mac, Linux) or ipconfig (Windows)
   
3. Check you can access with that IP address in your instance with your favourite user (in my case with cristina user)
4. Download the iPhone app from the Store & configure the app to point to your local instance (remember your laptop and phone should be on the same internet connection)
   
5. We need to choose Content Service option:
   
6. Now we specify our local instance settings:
7.   Check the menu options & play with them!
   
   

Now we have our local playable demo so we can enjoy with this amazing app and check what are the possibilities in your company!

Useful links:

• Alfresco Content Services for Android
• Developing on Android
• Alfresco Content Services for iOS
• Developing on iOS

Did you know about this app? Are you using it in your company? Ping us on twitter and let ‘s exchange our experience 😎