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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

Chapter 11: Building a Mobile Application with Live Examples

In the last few chapters, we have built a lot of web applications using various JET components and used Business Objects and Service Connections extensively to interact with the data.

As Visual Builder allows us to develop mobile applications, in this chapter, we'll build a mobile application and compile it for various mobile devices. We'll look at how to create a mobile application using a real-world example.

We'll develop a doctor's appointment mobile application, by means of which we can view a list of available doctors, view a doctor's full details, and book an appointment with a selected doctor. We'll provide a swipe option to view the doctor's details and to book an appointment, and we'll create a separate page to view the earlier appointments.

We'll look at different setting options of the mobile application that will allow a mobile application to render in both...