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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

Defining a build configuration for different devices

The mobile applications developed in Visual Builder can run on Android and iOS devices as a native app. In order to run a mobile application on different devices, separate build configurations are required for Android and iOS.

In this section, we'll look at how to build a configuration for both Android and iOS devices.

Build configuration for Android

You can define one or more build configurations for Android devices. In order to define a build for Android, you need to have the Keystore file along with its credentials. The Keystore file can be generated via Java Keytool or Android Studio.

Important Note:

Refer to the https://developer.android.com/studio/publish/app-signing#generate-key link to generate the Keystore file from Android Studio.

The following are the build configuration steps for Android:

  1. Click on the mobile application name, chapter11, and navigate to the Settings | Build Configurations...