An introduction to the course structure, content, and related certifications

A quick overview of the OutSystems server and development environment.

An overview of why designing mobile apps needs to consider important factors such as device capabilities, network access and bandwidth, and user expectations

A discussion of how to create applications and modules in OutSystems, including the principles of modular programming, and how to expose and reference elements

Create the application and modules for your mobile app and a slightly more interesting Hello World screen in the app

Introduce entities and static entities as well as their attributes and available actions

Describe how to model, create, define, and view data relationships in OutSystems

Introduce input, output, and local variables as well as the possible data types of those variables including lists and structures

Introduces the basics of mobile screen development including how screens are SPAs, how to create a screen, how to fetch data, and the client-side logic that is available

An overview of how to use aggregates to retrieve data including how to filter and sort the data

Describe the basic types of widgets available to control the display information including basic, form, and input widgets

Create the basic list and details screens and create the links to enable navigation between those screens

Aggregates have several properties and settings that can can be used to create more advanced queries with the Aggregate Editor

An introduction to the SQL Tool and how to use it to create and test SQL statements

Control the look and feel of your app by defining the styles being applied to various elements and understanding the order in which styles are applied

An overview of the screen lifecycle that provides events and callbacks to govern how screens get rendered from when the app gets opened to when we navigate between screens

Understand the module properties that define the layout and common blocks such as the menu and global exception handler which help control the structure and behavior of screens

Describe the different types of actions, how to define their action flows using various types of nodes, and how to raise and handle exceptions that may occur in those flows

Describe the input validation framework provided in OutSystems, from the built-in validations to the custom business validations and how to provide feedback to the user

Review security in OutSystems Mobile apps and show how access to resources can be controlled and how access to endpoints are managed

Learn how to start debugging your app and control the execution flow while inspecting the value of key variables and then find and view the logs to monitor what is happening

Describe what is required to sign iOS and Android apps as well as how to generate the app package and perform basic testing on the app

Introduce Local Storage entities including how to create, initialize, and fetch data to enable offline scenarios while keeping data stored locally secure

Create and begin using local storage in the app instead of database storage

Describe the data synchronization framework available in OutSystems mobile apps including how to use the available actions and configure automatic synchronization

Explain the importance of data synchronization and introduce some of the basic patterns that can be used to address various scenarios

Define the synchronization logic for the app so it will work while offline and enable manual and automatic synchronization as needed

Introduce blocks, how to create them, how to use them, and how to define and trigger events to allow the block to communicate with its parent

Create and define a block to contain the ToDo information and then control the block's behavior depending on where and how it is being used

Introduce the Mobile UI patterns by reviewing a few examples from each of the categories of patterns and then describing how and where to learn more about the patterns

Use several of the Mobile UI patterns by building a Sidebar for the app that allows users to search for and filter ToDos using different criteria

Describe how to create new screens using templates and then replacing the embedded sample data with real data

Create a dashboard screen that displays data about Priorities and Categories in a Donut and Bar chart and then configure the navigation to the dashboard

Explain how plugins are implemented in OutSystems and describe the Apache Cordova framework that enables the plugins to function properly

Install and use the Camera plugin from the Forge and then create a new plugin from an existing Apache Cordova plugin

Introduce the types of Web Services available in OutSystems and explain how to consume, expose, configure, and monitor both SOAP web services and REST APIs

A wrap-up of the course along with a review of the corresponding certification exam and other courses that are available