android - IBM Worklight 6.0 - How to include Dojo patch with pre-built Dojo layers?

Question

Developing Worklight 6.0 applications with Dojo 1.9, we're encountering some page navigation problems on Galaxy SII, SIII, Note devices with running Android v4.1.2 (very common).

We see these issues were resolved by Dojo patch #17164.
This patch is not included in Worklight's default Dojo build.

We tried to include it by placing the files in the project's dojoxmobile folder but with no effect - we guess it is being overwritten by unpatched classes during build.

Is there any other way to include/define this patch? We prefer to avoid custom building Dojo ourselves to keep up with WL versions.

Answer 1

Since you would like to avoid custom building Dojo, an alternative may be to remove the www/layers/mobile-ui-layers.js from your project and rely on the Dojo Library project providing resources during development. You can then place the updated the original files in the Dojo Library project and utilize the Mobile Browser Simulator. When deploying to the device, however, you must then place all of the application's required resources that were once part of the mobile-ui-layers into your project's www/ directory, maintaining the appropriate directory structure.

For information on the Dojo Library project and finding out which Dojo resources are requested by an application, please see the Worklight Studio Infocenter Document Worklight Dojo library project setup.

If you do decide to venture and perform a custom Dojo build, you can rebuild the mobile-ui-layers.js file to use the patched files using the Dojo Build Factory.