This is a little tip for customers using Oracle's ADF Mobile.
If you're like me, it's possible you don't rely on the online HTML version of the Mobile Developer's Guide for ADF, but rather download a PDF version of the file to use locally (look to the "PDF" link to the top right of the guide). For me the convenience of the PDF is it's faster, I can search the whole document easily, I can split read the document across two pages on my home monitor, if I lose my internet connection the document is still available, and it's easy to read on my iPad (especially on long haul flights to the US across the Pacific where there is no internet connection!).
The trigger point for me to download the Oracle PDF documentation has always been on a new point release of JDeveloper. However in the case of ADF Mobile, as an extension to JDeveloper it is releasing at a much faster and independent schedule to JDeveloper and this includes updates to the documentation.
As such the 11.1.2.4.0 ADF Mobile PDF guide you have locally might be out of date and you should take the opportunity to download the latest version. This is also particularly important for ADF Mobile as not only are many new features being added for each release and included in the new documentation, but the guide is under rapid improvement to clarify much of what has been written to date. Our documentation teams are super responsive to suggestions on how to improve the guides and this often shows per point release.
How do you tell you've the latest guide? Look to the document part number which right now is "E24475-03". This is a unique ID per release for the document, the first part being the document number, and the part after the dash the revision number. If the website document number has a higher revision number, time to download a new up to date PDF.
One last thing to share, you can follow the ADF Mobile guide document manager Brian Duffield on Twitter to keep abreast of updates.
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