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Effortless App Development with Oracle Visual Builder

By : Ankur Jain
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Effortless App Development with Oracle Visual Builder

By: Ankur Jain

Overview of this book

Organizations are moving their applications, data, and processes to the cloud to reduce application costs, effort, and maintenance. However, adopting new technology poses challenges for developers, solutions architects, and designers due to a lack of knowledge and appropriate practical training resources. This book helps you get to grips with Oracle Visual Builder (VB) and enables you to quickly develop web and mobile applications and deploy them to production without hassle. This book will provide you with a solid understanding of VB so that you can adopt it at a faster pace and start building applications right away. After working with real-time examples to learn about VB, you'll discover how to design, develop, and deploy web and mobile applications quickly. You'll cover all the VB components in-depth, including web and mobile application development, business objects, and service connections. In order to use all these components, you'll also explore best practices, security, and recommendations, which are well explained within the chapters. Finally, this book will help you gain the knowledge you need to enhance the performance of an application before deploying it to production. By the end of this book, you will be able to work independently and deploy your VB applications efficiently and with confidence.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
1
Section 1: Exploring the Building Blocks of VB
5
Section 2: Working with Data and Services
10
Section 3: Building Web and Mobile Apps Using Various VB Components
15
Section 4: Security, Recommendations, Best Practices, and Troubleshooting

Working with visualization components

Visual components allow you to visualize data in the form of charts that represent the data in a more sophisticated way and allow us to develop a dashboard for leaders using different charts such as pie, bar, bubble, and so on. For example, in order to represent sales data year-wise, we can create a bar chart to represent the sales data. So, instead of creating a table or list, it can be better to represent the data in the form of different charts.

In this section, we'll work with different charts to visualize data in different forms.

Creating a bar chart

Bar charts are used to compare different sets of data. They are basically used to show the number, frequency, and other measures.

The bar chart is an out-of-the-box component in VB that allows us to represent data in the form of a bar.

In order to create a bar chart, a new Business Object with the name Sales is created and a few records have been inserted into that. The following...