The ability to make app views includes using the standard NiagaraAX Px Editor to design navigation and custom controls that display and work well in a handheld device. Essentially, think of this app as an “app builder.”

Figure 27.   Mobile Px app in Workbench (left) and the Mobile Desktop view (right)

Mobile Px provides a way to present live data and field editors in expandable lists that are designed to work well with mobile devices.

If using NiagaraAX-3.7 to create views with the Mobile Px app, the display is not an exact representation of what you have in the Px Editor or what you would expect to see when you are displaying views created in Hx. Instead, for Mobile Px views in AX-3.7, the Px Editor works as a tool to create views that the Mobile Px app interprets and presents using such mobile-friendly features as: rounded buttons, “liquid” layout, dynamic views, and others.

Starting with AX-3.8, Niagara provides support for absolute-positioning for graphics in Mobile Px. Absolute positioning is achieved by adding a CanvasPane to your Mobile Px page. The CanvasPane scales to fit different sized displays. Absolutely positioned widgets scale proportionately with the parent CanvasPane. For more details, see About absolute positioning in Mobile Px.

Many of the standard Px graphic widget and property options are available for configuring your Px page, including:

Refer to Field editors, widgets, and bindings supported in Mobile Px for more details.