1 Introduction
Oracle Business Intelligence Mobile App Designer is a tool for designing purposeful apps for mobile phones and tablets. This chapter provides an overview of the BI Mobile App Designer. It includes the following sections:
1.1 What Is Oracle BI Mobile App Designer?
Oracle BI Mobile App Designer is a powerful design-time studio and run-time engine for creating purposeful apps for any line of business that help effectively showcase insights and provide summary information at a glance with detailed information only a touch or swipe away.
The apps you create with BI Mobile App Designer are platform and device independent. The generated apps are based on the modern HTML5 standard, which means they can run on any modern browser on your mobile device. No client install is required.
The responsive Web engine of the BI Mobile App Designer detects your device screen size and automatically adjusts the app display, which means you can open the same app on any size device, including your PC.
The intuitive design studio user interface empowers business users to create stunning and interactive analytical apps.
1.2 What Data Can I Use?
Because BI Mobile App Designer is integrated with Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition you can leverage the data models you have already created for your organization's data. When you create a BI mobile app, you can use data from the following data sources:
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BI Subject Area
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BI Publisher Data Model
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1.3 How Do I Access the Oracle BI Mobile App Designer?
After installation, the Oracle BI Mobile App Designer is available to users with the BI Author role. Begin designing your first app by selecting Mobile App from the Home page Create menu or from the New menu on the global header, as shown in Figure 1-1.
1.4 What is the Apps Library?
The Apps Library is where you manage your apps and subscribe to new apps. When you open the Apps Library from your mobile device you can choose to subscribe to the apps you have permission to access.
When you subscribe to an app, it becomes available in your My Apps Library viewer. You can switch between your My Apps Library and the shared Apps Library to subscribe to more apps.
When you create a new app you have the option of publishing it to the library. Once published it is immediately available to other users with access to the library and permissions to view the app. Users subscribe to an app to add it to their personal My Apps library. When you update the app, users are notified that a new version is available.
The Apps Library must be set up by an administrator. See Section A.2, "Setting Up the Apps Library Locations."
