Welcome to the Course Introduction. In this session
we'd like to introduce you to the Mobile for OutSystems Developers course. This
course is going to focus on mobile app development with OutSystems 10 and
expects you to have hands-on experience with previous versions of OutSystems.
The reason for that is the focus on mobile development will make assumptions
that you already understand some of the basics like the layout of the
development environment, how to use entities and actions and build screens,
so given that base set of knowledge you'll be able to focus on the mobile
application development and we'll be able to move a little more quickly.
If you do not have previous experience with OutSystems then you may want to
look at the course named Developing OutSystems Mobile Applications which does a
complete introduction to OutSystems as well as introducing mobile application
development. So for this course we'd like at the end for you to have all of the
fundamental skills and hands-on experience, so you'll be able to build
your own mobile apps with OutSystems. Now previous to OutSystems 10, we've had
the capability of building Web applications and we had that Web
application capability that would go ahead and have server-side logic with
data, have screens that make synchronous calls, and sometimes even add some AJAX
capabilities. At this point OutSystems 10 has turned into a full stack
development that includes mobile application capabilities and this means
that we'll have client-side logic that is able to run on the device and
communicate with the server, we'll have database storage as well as storage on
the device for local types of data, we'll be able to make more calls back and
forth asynchronously, and the device will be able to do some of the logic and work
on its own and be very reactive, so there's a lot of new concepts and a new
approach to being able to do this inside of OutSystems. So the course is
structured into a number of different sections each section has presentations
and exercises in it.
The presentations are going to cover the concepts and the theories for each of
the topics that are provided and then the exercise will give you more details
as well as the hands-on experience of building those components and those
parts of the application. At the end there's going to be a separate project
assignment that will allow you to build a new app on your own from a set of
detailed requirements and designs. So what are some of the topics that will be
covering inside the course? Well, we'll look at what's new inside of OutSystems 10,
we'll talk about how designing and creating mobile apps is a little bit
different than what we might do inside of Web applications. We'll look at some of
the changes to Silk UI including some of the new themes for our mobile
capabilities, we'll see more details about how the mobile programming model changes
a bit, we'll talk about how it can be difficult to debug things on the mobile
device and we'll look at some of the tools that can help us do that. We'll
look at the new mobile widgets and how to generate the new mobile applications
so that we can install them on our device and make them available on the
app stores. We'll also talk about being able to have data locally stored on the
device so that we have more capabilities and can build offline apps or or apps
that have offline capabilities much easier.
We'll also look at reusable blocks and the events that they can throw, we'll look
at the different Silk UI mobile patterns, there's a new set of mobile
charts, and then we'll also look at having plugins that can give us access
to the device's native sensors and other native capabilities. And at the end we'll
look at a number of different offline scenarios and how data synchronization
can be a little different depending on how you're going to use the device
offline. And after that we'll go ahead and set up the information so that you
can have the requirements in the details and be able to build the movies out. So
with all those topics as we go through the topics in
the theory with presentations and exercises, we're going to be building a
To Do application, and that To Do application will have a number of
to dos, we can give them different priorities, we can make them more
important if we need to remember them because they're they're very important,
so we'll begin building out this list of to dos and having these these
capabilities, including making sure we have navigation and that we also have
the ability to make sure this app will run when we're offline and that it can
give us more feedback about what we can and can't do offline and how it will
work. And we'll also look at integrating and using some plugins to get to the
native devices. So we want to be able to take a picture,
how do we integrate the camera and make all that work. So we going through a lot
of these pieces to build up this whole application as we go through the course.
At the end the extra project will be to build a Movies app and that Movies app
will be able to show you different movies that might be available, to see
which cinemas those movies are available in, and then also get information about
the cast, the crew, and then be able to make comments about the movies as well.
So a fairly robust movie application that allows you to actually go out and
book tickets and keep track of the movies that you've seen and that will be
the project at the end. So a number of different things that we're going to
accomplish in this course finishing with the project at the end. Hopefully this
sounds interesting and you want to go ahead and get started with the next
session.