Oracle Magazine, July/August 2017
Cloud Developer MOBILE have time to visit other customers to make more sales As described in my previous map article Oracle Mobile Application Accelerator supports the ability to plot maps Oracle Mobile Cloud Service location based services go beyond map plotting to enable mobile developers to store and retrieve information about places such as physical addresses that might represent places of interest to a business devices such as iBeacons Eddystone and altBeacons that an app can interact with as the user approaches a location not easily identified by GPS and moving assets which users may want to track to know the assets position relative to their current locations In this article Ill use Oracle Mobile Cloud Services location based services capabilities and Oracle Mobile Application Accelerators map capabilities to support a solution to the traveling sales forces customer location problem PREREQUISITES To follow the steps in this article you will need access to Oracle Mobile Cloud Service which you can obtain by clicking the Free Trial button on the Oracle Mobile Cloud Service home page You have the option to sign up for a trial account or free cloud credits After signing up for the trial and receiving approval watch and follow the instructions in this video on how to set up and provision your Oracle Mobile Cloud Service instance You will also need to set up two users with appropriate roles to build and access the application First youll need Jeff the developer who will build a small application with Oracle Mobile Cloud Service and Oracle Mobile Application Accelerator Second youll need Mary the mobile user who will actually use the Oracle Mobile Application Accelerator application built by Jeff Review this small video on how to create both users Finally download the demo zip file that contains the files for this article and unzip it on your desktop ORACLE MAGAZINE JULY AUGUST 2017 60
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