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What’s New in the Mobile Framework – Summit 2019

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Acumatica Summit 2019 Session – What’s New in the Mobile Framework (Ruslan Devyatko)

When Acumatica first launched their mobile app a few years ago, I was very impressed with the vision. What made it special is that it wasn’t a separate app with a separate codebase like most mobile apps.

This was a very smart approach, especially for an ERP application, because there is a lot of business logic that goes into screens in an ERP system. The Acumatica mobile app simply sits on top of regular Acumatica screens, picking up any business logic that happens to exist on those screens (including entirely custom screens), as long as they were built in the Acumatica Framework.

But it was still a little tricky to enable screens for the mobile app. You had to create an XML file and put it in a directory on the server. This was especially problematic for Acumatica SaaS customers because they don’t get access to the server. You could do it through a Customization Project, but it wasn’t that intuitive.

This is how Acumatica does things. They do things the “right” way, even though it takes them longer to mature and they can be difficult to work with in the beginning.

Fast-forward a few years and the Acumatica mobile app is beginning to hit its stride. I think that we are going to continue to see a lot of momentum in this area in the next 1-2 years.

Ruslan Devyatko is the original Acumatica platform evangelist at Acumatica and one of the most experienced Acumatica technical resources on the planet. Additionally, I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone who cares more about teaching and helping people than Ruslan. He has a rare combination of programming skills, people skills, and passion for sharing information.

During this session, Ruslan showed us how to actually do those cool mobile app things that we’ve been seeing in demos the past couple of years.

This was my favorite session at Summit 2019.

Here are my Twitter notes from the session:

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