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Gizmox exposes its VWG Enterprise Mobile solution

roy.goffer posted on January 31, 2011 :: 2470 Views

We are very excited to share with you a new Visual WebGui Enterprise Mobile Applications demo and information about extending our vision and roadmap in order to bring the first secured-by-design browser based enterprise mobile solution.

Visual WebGui brought a revolution to Enterprise Rich Ajax Web with rapid development, security-by-design and desktop richness, all in plain browser with zero-foot-print client. This unique approach that won loyal followers with first tier organizations is now extended to Mobile. It is the Enterprise-Optimized-Mobile that doesn't bring or hold any data on the device, doesn’t require strong local computing resources, and enables rapid application development. It also leverages the 'write once deploy many' approach that enables Desktop, Web and Mobile/Tablet applications from the same codebase.

VWG has been successfully tackling those major security, performance and economics challenges for rich Web applications and now Gizmox fully extends the VWG capabilities to Mobiles as well:

Installation-free access via cross plain browser
Central maintenance that leads to low TCO and elimination client updates
Unhackable: no data and no logic on the client (the only one to be proven in a real world hacking challenge)
Single codebase for Desktop, Web and Mobile
Native user experience on each specific device
Rapid development with simple Windows Forms paradigms & jQuery integration
Zero footprint on the client
The lightest internet protocol 10% bandwidth and 50% CPU
HTML5 support for rich user experience
Form Factors of choice & awareness
Designated mobile controls

Our team is working on extending VWG benefits from web to mobile and putting all those capabilities into a mature framework that will be offered as part as our DevTools line by the 3rd quarter of 2011. Presently, VWG enables development for mobile devices through services in two different client approaches:

Native browser based
Thin Client

Both approaches leverage most of Visual WebGui's design time and runtime benefits and can allow the same end user experience on mobile devices.

We would like to learn which approach you would prefer given that the end result can be exactly the same in terms of the UI.
Please take a second to vote on our pole.

In order to get our vision closer to the community we aired a sneak-peek mobile demo that extends the ‘Webmail’ demo which Give a link to the Webmail here:
http://www.visualwebgui.com/live/webmail/dhtml/
(Username: itzik, Password: 12345).

Now, we use the same codebase to generate native mobile user interfaces which is currently mimicking the iPhone mail app. The current demo supports Android and iOS. Since it is based on our browser based approach all you need to do is browse to the following link with your iPhone/iPad or Android device:
http://67.205.112.81:8080/mobilewebmail/mainform.mwgx

Single codebase for Web and Mobile

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Comments

# Anonymous

Gizmox exposes its VWG Enterprise Mobile solution

Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, February 01, 2011 8:58 AM

# kenn.minear

Roy, tried it out on the iPad, very good looking if somewhat a limited demo. I like the direction it is going. My main interest is tablet-like device support as opposed to an iPhone or Android phone device, so I voted for the browser interface direction.

Regards, Kenn

Posted by kenn.minear on Tuesday, February 01, 2011 7:05 PM

# itzik.spitzen

Hi Kenn,

Thank you for trying the demo and for the feedback.
Firstly, yes, the demo is still limited, at the moment it's just a sneak-peak level demo. However, it marks up the direction as the most native tablet and mobile devices experience.

In the near future you will see both a fully functional VWG with Tablet and mobile specific events and capabilities (i.e. all kinds of Gestures, animation transitions etc) and a mobile dedicated framework in which you will have designated mobile controls as well as the ability to choose Form Factors.

This will enable you to easily develop both full-size browser/tablet apps and smaller form factor devices' apps.

Hope this answers your questions,

Kind Regards,
Itzik Spitzen

Posted by itzik.spitzen on Wednesday, February 02, 2011 1:27 AM

# LuckyWolf19

We also prefer the web-based so we can support all the new tablets and maybe BlackBerry's.

I know it states one code base in the article; however, how can this be if there are touch-based controls which are better served on touch pads? Will we be able to take an existing Visual WebGui project and have it magically switch the right controls for the best experience? Do we have to have two different VWG projects?

Thanks for addressing this in the advertising of the new mobile platform. BTW, we can't get it soon enough!

Scott Peal
President & CTO
Company Automation LLC

Posted by LuckyWolf19 on Saturday, April 02, 2011 2:56 PM

# itzik.spitzen

Hi Scott,

Thanks for the comment.

Tablets are very good targeting event without having to adjust the form factor.

We are currently working on Blackberry browsers and it's going to be fully supported by the release of the fully featured version later this year.

The single codebase refers to the fact that the same code which was originally created for a full screen app will be adjustable to smaller form-factors. This will be achieved by either mapping or binding the app’s desktop designated parts of forms to mobile designated form factors and controls. You will obviously have to define the new flow of the app and choose viewable contents by either using mapping definitions or adding some code but still, you will use the same code, logic, actions and most important, development skills.

As for touch screen gestures, after mapping the application to a smaller form factor, you will then be able to re-map user events to correspond to gestures (such as pinching, acceleration, swiping etc) and of course, add code to support behaviors which were not supported in the original app.

Hope this helps,

Cheers,
Itzik Spitzen

Posted by itzik.spitzen on Sunday, April 03, 2011 1:07 AM