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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

Summary

In this chapter, you learned how to create a mobile application using a real-world example. We looked at different templates to create different pages. We developed a doctor's appointment mobile application, by means of which you can view a list of available doctors, view a doctor's full details, and book an appointment with a doctor at your preferred time. You learned how to enable the swipe feature to enable various options.

You looked at various options that allow you to change the settings of a mobile application. Now, you will be able to upload custom images for Android and iOS devices. You learned how to enable a mobile application to render in both portrait and landscape mode. You learned how to expose a mobile application as a PWA app and run it on the computer and mobile devices as a native application.

You learned how to define the build for Android and iOS devices and the pre-requisites for defining the build. You saw how the QR code can be generated...