Customize Your Mobile App

Mobile apps can be customized, allowing you to define global or mobile platform specific configurations, fulfill business requirements, or improve the experience of your users for all different screen sizes.

The configurations you can define for your app are:

• The preferences and configurations for your app (as the app orientation and minimum acceptable operating system version)
• Icons of the app to display in the iOS and Android menus
• Custom splash screens for all available screen sizes
• Customized application status bar, such as changing background color or making it transparent
• Create a plugin to extend the capabilities of your mobile apps

To define these advanced configurations during development, go to the Interface tab, select the app name, and click … on the right side of the Extensibility Configuration field to open the Extensibility Configuration window. The extensibility configuration property is a JSON object that defines the configurations you want.

Once you have typed in the JSON string click Close to save the new extensibility configuration.

See Extensibility Configurations JSON Schema for information about configuration schema and constraints.

You may change these default extensibility configurations when it is necessary to have different configurations for different environments. For example, the development team may want to increase the plugin logging level in the development environment in order to troubleshoot an issue, while keeping the default logging level in the quality and production environments.

Using LifeTime, you can override the default extensibility configurations for a specific environment, with no need to manually change and deploy the application in that environment.

Articles in this Section

• Modify the App Icon

  Assign custom icons for your mobile app, specifying versions for each screen sizes and densities.

• Set the Preferences for Your Mobile App

  Learn how to set the preferences for your mobile application.

• Use Custom Splash Screens

  Specify custom splash screens for your mobile app adapted to all screen sizes and densities.

• Customize the Application Status Bar

  Define a custom status bar in your mobile app.

• Customize the Errors Screen

  To customize the unhandled errors screen in mobile applications you need to configure a JSON and edit the CSS. This article explains how.

• Configure Accessible Domains for Your Mobile App

  Define which domains your mobile app can access. Please note we recently replaced the term whitelist with allowlist across all OutSystems documentation.

• Extensibility Configurations JSON Schema

  JSON Schema and values expected for the Extensibility Configurations property.