First, we should publish the app, and then we can click Play to launch it. This will allow us to interact with the app within the browser in the same way that we can with canvas apps.
Once you have launched your app, you will be faced with your working model-driven app. This is where it becomes apparent to users that we are extremely limited in terms of what we can do with the look and feel of the app. This lack of design freedom really means that model-driven apps are better suited to back-office functions. As we have seen our app from the design perspective, we will now run the app so that we can see the user interface when it is actually being used:
- The first thing I am going to do is click the Run button in the top-right corner of my model-driven app designer window so that I can preview the fully working app.
- In Figure 16.14: The preview of my app, we can see that the fully rendered app is somewhat different from what we saw in the app designer. Each...