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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

Enabling PWA support for mobile applications

In this section, we'll look at how to expose a mobile application as a PWA app. The mobile application that is developed under the VB can be exposed as a PWA. A PWA app can be rendered on the computer as well as on mobile devices as a native app. But, in fact, PWA apps are not native apps.

An important difference between PWA and native app is that when the developer publishes an update to the app, PWA apps will automatically fetch the update to the device. However, native apps will require the end user to download the new version of the app and install it. The PWA app exposed from the VB has the following features:

  • It allows us to install the application from a browser and add it to the home screen.
  • You can add the PWA app to the mobile device's home page and it works as a native app.
  • The PWA app can work offline as well.
  • No URL is displayed when you run the PWA app.

The following are the steps to...