Friends App - Initial View

[Matthew]

I'm wondering how the same Friends App is selecting the login page as the initial view, without explicitly setting "initial" in the Kendo Mobile App initializer.

// Initialize KendoUI mobile application
var mobileApp = new kendo.mobile.Application(document.body, {
    transition: 'slide',
    layout: 'mobile-tabstrip',
    statusBarStyle: statusBarStyle,
    skin: 'flat'
});

I was trying to cause the initial view to be different, and I was successful by providing the initial property like so, but I cannot figure out why Login was the initial view by default:

// Initialize KendoUI mobile application
var mobileApp = new kendo.mobile.Application(document.body, {
    transition: 'slide',
    layout: 'mobile-tabstrip',
    statusBarStyle: statusBarStyle,
    skin: 'flat',
    initial: 'views/smurfsView.html'
});

[Tsvetomir]

Hello Matthew,

Thank you for contacting Telerik support. 

When there is no explicit setting "Initial", the initial view of your app is the first view in index.html. Since there is only one view in the index.html of our Friends App, the "log-in" view is selected as initial. You can easily check this by replacing the 'log in" view with one from "views" folder and running the app in simulator.

I hope this helps.

Kind Regards,
Tsvetomir
Telerik