This deck introduces mobile app development using Progress Rollbase with minimal coding. One app for multiple mobile OS.

1. BUILDING MOBILE APPS ON APAAS PLATFORMS
Dr Ganesh Iyer
http://ganeshniyer.com, @GANESHNIYER
Progress Software
06-09-2014
Ack: Mark Troester, Senior Director, Pacific PaaS, Progress

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Established in 1981 in Bedford, Boston US
VISION:
Rapid creation & deployment of business applications. Driven by data.,Unlimited by device or cloud

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About Me
Completed B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from Mahatma Gandhi University, India in 2004 with University First Rank
Five years of Industry work experience in Bangalore (2004-2007) and HYD (2012-till date)
Finished Masters and PhD from National University of Singapore in 2008 and 2012 respectively.
Research interests: Cloud computing, Game theory, Wireless Networks, Pricing, Software Quality Analysis
Personal Interests:
Kathakali, Teaching,
Traveling, Photography, Cooking
Website: http://ganeshniyer.com
Currently
1.Principal Engineer at Progress Software, India
2.Visiting Faculty at IIIT-H
3.Adjunct Prof, Member BoS at BVRIT-HYD
4.Industry Outreach member IEEE

4. ENTIRE BUSINESSCHANGE
ENTIRE LIFESTYLE CHANGE Who would have imagined?

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Companies That Leverage Technology Change the Game Uber, an app for requesting private car service is now disrupting traditional taxi services in more than 26 countries and 60 cities worldwide.13 It was recently valued by investors at around $3.5 billion. Airbnb, which has booked stays for over 11 million guests in hosts’ private rooms, apartments, castles, igloos, and tree houses, sees over 37% of its traffic from mobile devices.
Tesla cars, (UK) is disruptive in multiple ways – their use of electric car technology, their approach to selling cars direct to the consumer without going through a dealership, ability to download software over its cellular connection.

6. We All Know about Cloud, Mobile, Social, & Big Data…
BUT WHAT ABOUT THE APPLICATION?

7. Made to SHARE
Rapid to BUILD
Flexible to MOVE
Demands of Modern Business Applications
Ecosystems of data working together
Simple to develop, deploy, manage Unity of on-premise, cloud, mobile

8. Live up to consumer expectations
Enable self-service action
Support mobile and web apps
Make apps and their data fluid
Every Application Is Becoming a “Consumer” Application
TODAY’S ORGANIZATIONS MUST

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Introduction to aPaaS and Mobile App Dev

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Get IT Out of the Way: Enable Your Entire Organization
Expand Developer Pool
Improve Developer Productivity
1. Pick the right high-productivity PaaS
2. Use the PaaS to speed developer work
3. Determine what to expose to business
4. Train & manage citizen developer work

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9. Don’t Treat All PaaS the Same: Pick the Right PaaS for Your Needs
Easy to use
Fast, rapid results
Includes dev environment
Targets GUI developers
Cloud-enables existing approaches
Focused on DevOps / deployment
Uses existing dev tools
Targets traditional Dev & IT Ops
High-Productivity aPaaS
High-Control aPaaS

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Our Products
Progress Rollbase enables you to build all of your business applications in one place from the comfort of your Web browser while writing a minimum amount of code (typically 80% clicks, 20% code). Reduce your development time and resource requirements, accelerate your time-to-market, simplify application delivery and deployment, and provide a proven cloud platform on which to build all of your custom business applications. With Progress Rollbase, you are in complete control.
HIGHLIGHTS:
•Runs anywhere, no vendor lock-in: Deploy applications on-premises, in hybrid environments, in any cloud
•Integrates out-of-the-box with leading CRM systems, such as Salesforce.com, Oracle and Microsoft
•Provides a growing library of pre-built sample applications you can start from
•Salesforce.com and Force.com Migration: Automated tool moves applications to Progress Rollbase in minutes
•Custom branding and App Store for ISVs and Resellers

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MOBILE APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT
Helping Customers deliver exceptional mobile user experiences
MOBILE
Mobile App
Builder
JavaScript
Data Object
Business
Logic
Rollbase Hybrid Apps
goo.gl/LT4nhM

15. Get in the Mobility Game Faster
Progress® Rollbase® Mobile, part of Progress Pacific™ Platform-as-a-Service, lets you get your apps out the door quickly.

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Let’s Start building our sample CRM Application

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Outline
Have the backend data model for the application in Progress Rollbase
Create a new Mobile Application
Build the UI
Connect the UI with the backend data model
Test the app you develop in between
Export the App to Mobile device

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Sign-up for Progress Pacific
https://web-demo-int.rlb-test.progress.com/router/login/login.jsp
Create a ProgressID

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Create the Mobile App Project: Install CRM App template
Click on Install Applications
Select CRM
Click on: “Install Now”

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Create the Mobile App Project

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Create the Mobile App Project
1. Click New Application. The Create a New Application box opens.
2. Click Create Mobile App. This opens the New Mobile App page.
3. In the New Mobile App page:
•Enter SampleMobileApp as the Mobile App Name.
•Enter "This is a Mobile App for sales representatives" as the Description.
•Select Phone App.
•Select Based on Existing Web App and select CRM from the drop-down list. The list of Views in the CRM application is displayed.
4. Select All Leads from the list of Available Views and click the right-arrow to add these to the list of Exported Views.
5. Click Save. This creates the Mobile App project and opens the Setup Mobile Application page

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Adding Pages, Components and Events
In this exercise, first you will add a list to the AppDetailPage. Next, you will create a page, Leads_Types, to display the different lead categories. Then, you will add an event that enables navigation from the AppDetailPage to the Leads_Types page. Finally, you will test the Mobile App.
Steps:
1.Adding a List
2.Creating the Leads_Types Page
3.Testing the Mobile App

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Using CRUD Operations: Read (View list of all Leads)
In this exercise, you will:
1. First add a list to the Leads_Types page.
2. Create and design the Leads_All_LeadsPage. This page will be used to display the All Leads view.
3. Initialize the Leads JSDO.
4. Configure the JSDO operation that retrieves the list of all the leads.
5. Add an event to the Leads_Types page to enable navigation to Leads_All_LeadsPage.
6. Test the functionality.

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Using CRUD Operations: Create a new Lead
In this exercise, you will:
Create and design the Leads_Add_New_Lead page.
Add and configure JSDO operations to populate the picklists
Add and configure the Create JSDO operation of the Lead object
Add and invoke the operation that initializes the Account JSDO Service
Add events to invoke the operations configured
Add a button to Leads_All_LeadsPage and then you will add an event that enables navigation from Leads_All_LeadsPage to the Leads_Add_New_Lead page
Test the functionality of the Leads_Add_New_Lead page

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Finally ….
Packaging Android/iOS Apps
•Generates APK (Android) and IPA (iOS)
Testing the APK directly on an Android device
•During development, there are several ways to get the newly created APK on an Android device for testing.
One common approach uses a Dropbox account:
•Create an account on http://dropbox.com .
•Click and drag the APK into Dropbox.
•Open http://dropbox.com from a browser on the mobile device and log in.
•Click on the APK from within the Dropbox application.This will begin downloading the application onto the device.
• When the download is complete, click on the downloaded file on the mobile device. Follow the device directions for installing the app.

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You can do much more
CRUD Operations
Mutliple Lists at the same time
Push Notifications
Geo-Location services
…..
References:
•Youtube (goo.gl/LT4nhM)
•Rollbase in Action (900+++ pages pdf) 
•Progress Communities
•Slideshare
•….

27. Dr Ganesh Iyer
gaiyer@progress.com ganeshniyer.com
@GANESHNIYER