

There’s also lack of direct support for a “viewport” that would grab 100% of the visible screen, enabling developers to explicitly manage scrolling within their Lightning app. That’s why there’s no officially supported methodology (yet) for disabling the built-in “pull to refresh” feature, which can be quite convenient for refreshing web pages, but is inappropriate for single-page apps. The fundamental problem is that the platform formerly known as Salesforce1 was clearly designed to render web pages (commonly referred to as Flexipages) and not single-page apps (SPAs). “How to pull out all of your hair with maximum effort”.

“Stuffing a round peg into a square hole”.Other titles that I’d considered for this post: At Dreamforce last week, Salesforce introduced a new feature that would enable administrators to more distinctly brand their Salesforce mobile apps.Īs illustrated by the screenshot at right, that capability is actually available today through various CSS hacks, hand-wringing, and lots of tears.
