One of the biggest benefits of the AppArmor Custom Mobile Safety Platform is the ability to make content changes to your app in real-time. That is, the The vast majority of the content – text, text colours, buttons, button icons, button shapes, phone numbers, email address and more – are all in your app is editable in real-time using the online dashboard.
- The only catch was that previously you couldn’t make those changes and see them in your app without publishing those changes to all your users. With Draft Mode, that problem is solved!
Draft mode However, you may want to be able to view these changes within your app without your users seeing them.
Draft Mode enables an authorized user to be able to preview “Draft Changes” from the designer in the Online Dashboard Designer locally on their device. It essentially gives you a preview of the changes you’re planning on making in your app prior to publishing the changes out to your user base.
Step-by-step guide
Enable Draft Mode on your device:
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Now that we have draft mode enabled, let’s make some small changes:
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If the draft changed look good to you, go ahead and publish those changes out to your users by going back to the designer and hitting “publish”.
The last step is to disable draft mode:
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Draft Mode is a great way to preview and test changes you want to publish out to your users.
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Using the AppArmor Demo App as an example, the screenshot on the left shows the app in “normal” mode, while the screenshot on the right shows the app in Draft Mode, displaying a label that can only be seen by members of your team with Draft Mode enabled.
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