CLOUD BASED EDITOR FOR GENERATION OF INTERPRETED ARTIFACTS FOR MOBILE RUNTIME

• US 20160378439A1
• Filed: 06/21/2016
• Published: 12/29/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: MCGRATH, Michael William, KIM, Daniel Nyoung, STRAUB, Christian David
• Granted Patent: US 9,851,953 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/20 Software design
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/34 Graphical or visual programming
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/61 Installation

Abstract

A system creates an application. The system accesses an application development user interface (“UI”) through a browser. The application development UI is hosted by a web-based application development server in a cloud system that provides an application development framework (“ADF”). The system develops the application through the application development UI. The application is developed with the ADF and is configured to be downloaded from a download location in the cloud system. The application is configured to be downloaded on a device as a native application.

Claims

1. A computer readable medium having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to create an application, the creating comprising:

accessing an application development user interface (UI) through a browser, wherein the application development UI is hosted by a web-based application development server in a cloud system that provides an application development framework (ADF); and

developing the application through the application development UI, wherein the application is developed with the ADF, wherein the application is configured to be downloaded from a download location in the cloud system, wherein the application is configured to be downloaded on a device as a native application.

2. The computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the developing of the application through the application development UI comprises:

receiving a first gesture made by a user of the ADF adding a visual representation of a UI component to a visual representation of a UI of the application being developed with the ADF, wherein the first gesture adds the UI component to the UI of the application;

determining a set of attributes available at the UI component;

receiving a second gesture made by the user of the ADF linking an attribute available at the UI component to a visual representation of a data source or function, wherein the second gesture binds the data source or function to the UI component; and

modifying a predetermined expression of the visual representation of the UI component with a reference to the data source or function.

3. The computer readable medium of claim 2, wherein the receiving of the second gesture comprises receiving information indicative of the user dragging the visual representation of the data source or function from a catalog of services onto a visual representation of the UI component.

4. The computer readable medium of claim 2, wherein the determining of the set of attributes available at the UI component comprises accessing a Representational State Transfer (REST) or Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) definition.

5. The computer readable medium of claim 2, wherein the determining of the set of attributes available at the UI component comprises:

identifying a template associated with the UI component; and

determining, based on the template, a set of UI elements that correspond to the set of attributes available at the UI component.

6. The computer readable medium of claim 2, wherein the receiving of the second gesture made by the user of the ADF comprises receiving information indicative of the user dragging a visual representation of a data point available at the data source from a visual representation of a set of data points available at the data source onto a visual representation of the set of attributes available at the UI component.

7. The computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the web-based application development server generates a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) that identifies the download location in the cloud system, wherein the URL is shared with one or more devices, wherein the application is configured to be downloaded from the download location as identified by the URL.

8. The computer readable medium of claim 7, wherein the one or more devices include a non-mobile device, wherein following the URL on the non-mobile device opens a web page that includes download information for the application.

9. The computer readable medium of claim 8, wherein the web page includes a Quick Response (QR) code that encodes the application, wherein the application is downloaded to a mobile device that scans the QR code.

10. The computer readable medium of claim 7, wherein the one or more devices include a mobile device, wherein following the URL on the mobile device opens a web page that includes download information for the application.

11. The computer readable medium of claim 10, wherein the web page includes a download button for downloading the application, wherein clicking the download button downloads the application to the mobile device.

12. The computer readable medium of claim 7, wherein the URL is a tokenized URL that includes tokens for at least one of an application link, application login information, application download information, and a mobile backend used by the application.

13. The computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the device includes a hosting application, wherein the application is installed as a feature of the hosting application.

14. The computer readable medium of claim 13, wherein installing the application is performed by downloading declarative metadata of the application to the device, wherein the declarative metadata of the application is interpreted at runtime.

15. The computer readable medium of claim 13, wherein the application shares login information with other applications that are installed as features of the hosting application.

16. The computer readable medium of claim 13, wherein each application that is added as a feature of the hosting application is configured to be independently modified.

17. The computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the browser is opened on a non-desktop device, wherein the developing of the application is performed entirely through the browser.

18. The computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the application is installed on the device as a device resident application.

19. A method of creating an application, comprising:

accessing an application development user interface (UI) through a browser, wherein the application development UI is hosted by a web-based application development server in a cloud system that provides an application development framework (ADF); and

developing the application through the application development UI, wherein the application is developed with the ADF, wherein the application is configured to be downloaded from a download location in the cloud system, wherein the application is configured to be downloaded on a device as a native application.

20. A system for creating an application, comprising:

an accessing module that accesses an application development user interface (UI) through a browser, wherein the application development UI is hosted by a web-based application development server in a cloud system that provides an application development framework (ADF); and

a developing module that develops the application through the application development UI, wherein the application is developed with the ADF, wherein the application is configured to be downloaded from a download location in the cloud system, wherein the application is configured to be downloaded on a device as a native application.