Hi Richard,

You cannot generate native Windows 10 applications with OutSystems.

 Traditional webbapps and reactive webbapps run in a desktop browser.

 Mobile apps either are deploy as an IPA on iOS or APK on Android or as a PWA.

There are platforms like Electron that are a shell for models applications to run as a windows desktop app, but I never read or heard about that it can be used together with OutSystems. 

But if if this would be possible with Electron, it is still a hybrid solution, not native windows 10 .net app, like OutSystems mobile apps which are reactive apps running in Cordoba container.

Regards,

Daniel

Hi Richard,

You can do this by creating an Mobile app and use the reactive UI components.
The application can then be build for the desktop and use the Mobile PWA capabilities to generate a (Native) PWA app.

An example of this can be found in this video starting from: 39:00
https://www.outsystems.com/learn/lesson/2099/pwa-overview-and-best-practices

Hopefuly this helps you!

Regards,
Teun

Hi Richard,

To add what Teun wrote:

You can create an OutSystems mobile app for tablet for example and install it as a PWA in Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge, Firefox not yet supports. this. A shortcut will be created with the application Icon, and the application will open in a browser session without tabs and without the normal browser UI elements. So it really looks like a local installed application.

For chrome here is the instruction on how to do this:

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/9658361?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en&oco=1 

But..... be aware at this moment PWA in desktop browser is not (yet) officially supported by OutSystems. This might be relevant if you push your solution in an enterprise environment to production.

I already asked OutSystems to give more clarity on this, documentation is not mentioning a lot on running PWA in desktop browsers.

Regards,

Daniel

Thanks Teun and Daniël!

Regards,

Richard