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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

Configuring basic authentication for a mobile app

By default, mobile applications developed in VB are secured using the Oracle Cloud authentication mechanism, where users need to pass Oracle Identity Cloud credentials to log in to the mobile apps.

However, VB provides an option to configure the mobile application to use basic authentication too. In order to configure basic authentication, use the following steps:

  1. Go to the Settings tab of the mobile application and switch to the Security tab. Select the Basic option for Authentication Mechanism as in the following screenshot:
    Figure 12.16 – Enabling the Basic authentication option for the mobile app

    Figure 12.16 – Enabling the Basic authentication option for the mobile app

  2. To configure the Basic authentication, you need to supply custom Login URL and Logout URL values, as shown in the previous screenshot. These two URLs can be of a third-party server or an Oracle Cloud service URL that supports basic authentication. Additionally, you can supply any HTTP header. Create the HTTP header...