orclapex APEX as a PWA: The Complete Guide Covered Features Installing the APEX app on a mobile device Making the APEX app available offline Syncing offline requests when getting back online Sending push notifications Documentation Part 1: Introducing Progressive Web Apps
orclapex How to Avoid a JavaScript Mess At Kscope18, I presented How to Avoid a JavaScript Mess at the #LetsWreckThisTogether talks. Here it is, turned into a blog post. We all want to write clean code. I was attending Mike
orclapex Using Font Awesome 5 Pro It's inevitable that APEX will update the icon libraries in the next release. I expect these two: - From Font Awesome 4 to Font Awesome 5 Free - From Font APEX to Font
orclapex Alternative Look for Disabled Buttons Recently I was told that the disabled buttons in our Universal Theme application were not... disabled enough. And I have to agree in a way. If that button was the only button visible
orclapex Why you should change the FONT of your code editor I recently changed the default font of my code editor and I love it. I now use Fira Code, which is a monospaced font with programming ligatures. If you're not familiar with programming
orclapex Material APEX Part 4: 2018 Status & Statement of Direction When APEX 5.2 is going to be released, here's how Material APEX will be affected. We will continue to support Material APEX for critical bug fixes, under the current v0.12.x
orclapex Animate your APEX application A few weeks ago I released a very simple dynamic action plugin: AnimAPEX. It consists of 75+ animations that you can apply to any APEX component. Want to shake an input when the
orclapex The best alternative to Universal Theme Material APEX just got updated earlier this week to v0.12.0. If you haven't heard about it, it is a complete alternative solution to Universal Theme. And it is free! Material APEX
orclapex JavaScript async/await in APEX The following technique will change the way we write JavaScript very soon. If you're into JavaScript, you're gonna want to understand async/await. Prerequisites JavaScript Promises were introduced to solve many JavaScript problems
orclapex Tabs with Auto Height I really like the Tabs Container template in Universal Theme. It promotes a great structure for your content, while being good looking. You can have as many tabs as you want in the
orclapex Peeking at Collapsed Navigation Menu Entries Universal Theme's navigation sidebar has two states: expanded or collapsed. When collapsed, you only see the icons. Sometimes, icons are not enough. I wanted to peek at the text behind the icon without
orclapex Checkbox Pills Demo: https://apex.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=128166:1 Universal Theme offers a template option for radio button items to make them look like buttons: As of this writing (APEX 5.
oracle JavaScript Promises in APEX As I was reading the APEX 5.1 API documentation the other day, I noticed something pretty interesting under the apex.server namespace. apex.server.process and apex.server.plugin are now returning
oracle Using APEX Javascript Events Dynamic actions are great, but sometimes I just want to code Javascript by hand in my code editor. In the official APEX documentation, very little is said about APEX Javascript events. All we
oracle Beautifying File Browse Inputs Are you tired of seeing this? The look and feel behind these <input> comes from the browser itself, so there ain't much you can do... ...or is there? Let's try and
orclapex Introducing APEX Bootstrap 4 (Theme) For the past few weeks we've been working on something new. I'm excited to release the first version of a new APEX Theme. Still alpha, not production ready :) See Demo See Source code
orclapex Material APEX Part 2: The Grid Most of the components displayed in APEX are built on a grid*, making it one of the most important aspect to understand about a theme. *Although it's possible to escape grid support in
orclapex Material APEX Part 1: 2015 Status & Direction I am starting a series of blog posts on how to use Material APEX, a theme based on Material Design guidelines. Firstly, I'd like to thank everyone who took the time to comment,
insum Moving a 40+ people dev team to Slack We at Insum have been through rapid growth in the past few years. Lately, one thing that struck me is how many emails I could receive in a single day of absence. I'm
orclapex Customizing Theme Roller I've had the chance to spend time with Shakeeb Rahman at Kscope15 and talk about some of the new APEX UI features. You've all seen it, but here's what Theme Roller looks like
orclapex Simple Responsive Table Tweak APEX is excellent at reporting stuff, but sometimes in a small screen reports are hard to read: Words are wrapping. You have to scroll horizontally. It's just awkward. Here's a dead simple CSS
oracle Oracle Responsive Email Templates Demo: https://apex.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=16371 Source: https://github.com/vincentmorneau/oracle-rwd-email-template-api Update: 1.1.0 Templates are now parameterized More code refactoring 1.0.0 Decoupled the API
orclapex Reinventing APEX Reporting It's all about changing your reporting state of mind. I used to automatically associate reporting to something like this: You know the drill, a few HTML tags such as <table>, <
orclapex APEX Theme Boilerplate UPDATED 2017-06-20: Templates were revisited for APEX 5.1 I love building new APEX themes from scratch. Don't get me wrong, I love the new Universal Theme as well: it's an inspiring user
orclapex APEX 5.0 Dual Screen Trick I am playing a lot with APEX 5 these days, especially building a new theme called Material Design for APEX. I am amazed by some of the productivity enhancements it offers, but this