1. Design and Develop your application in BrightBuilder

BrightBuilder™ is the mobile application development IDE (Integrated Development Environment) to design, develop and deploy your mobile applications. It allows you to layout the application business forms and to design the user interface for the mobile application.  Using drag-and-drop form editors, it is possible to have a what-you-see-is-what-you-get  (WYSIWYG) design view of the application.

We can define the data that will be sent to the device, as well as the data that will be captured on the device. 

These table definitions are used to automatically create tables in a local database that will be running on the handheld device. The database and all the necessary tables are created automatically if they do not exists. So you should not worry about creating them manually.

Now we can bind the defined data fields to the user interface elements.

As the remote users interact with each screen, they will be creating and storing new data in the local database.

And define data synchronisation rules to send and receive data.

 

By using a local database on the device itself, the application can operate even when it is disconnected from any network.  When the device returns to network coverage, then we are able to synchronise the data changes.  This is called an occasionally-connected model, and BrightXpress Mobility Suite takes care of all the hard work for you.

While you are developing, you can at any time, hit the EXECUTE button and see how the application will run. 

 

Test as you go. 

When we have finished building the application, then it is time to deploy…

Next: 2. Deploy your application to BrightForms™ >