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Submitting a PWA to Google Play Store using Bubblewrap
This tutorial shows how you build and submit your progressive web application (PWA) to the Google Play Store. We use the PWA from our Modern Web App tutorial series as an example and wrap it as a Trusted Web Activity (TWA) using the Bubblewrap CLI by Google Chrome Labs. You can find more details ...

Re-introducing OSGi support for npm-based Flow projects
Vaadin has been a popular UI technology for OSGi-based Java solutions for years. Many OSGi users are still on Vaadin 7 or 8. Last year their migrations almost stalled, as Vaadin 14 only supported OSGi in the “compatibility mode". Compatibility mode uses the deprecated Bower + WebJars-based solution ...

Vaadin Community Channels and Social Media
Hola! I'm Luis and I’m the new Community Advocate at Vaadin. I thought I should use this chance to introduce myself, as I’ll be behind a lot of the communication in our Social Media and you’ll often see me in our Community channels. My mission is to be the voice of the Community inside the company, ...

CGI automated routine tasks in social and health care
ITTE is a self-service solution for health and social care. The solution enhances and automates customer registration throughout the customer journey and provides information and guidance. The solution automates the routine tasks of professionals, allowing them to focus more on their core tasks. ...

Vaadin’s 2020 highlights and plans for next year
Although 2020 has been a trying year, it hasn’t been all bad. Let’s have a look at some of the Vaadin highlights for the year, along with a sneak peek at our plans for 2021. 100+ new Vaadin releases The Vaadin framework was busy this year: there were 4 new major releases, 3 LTS (long term support) ...

Turo Italia removed 90% of the overhead in reporting of non-conformities
A pioneering developer of pumps for the processing industry Turo Italia has manufactured industrial pumps and valves for many different processing industries for over 50 years. The company is part of the Egger group that has a sales network with global reach. The pumps conform to the demanding ...

Vaadin online training courses and certifications are now free
To end 2020 on a positive note, we are happy to announce a free gift for all Vaadin developers. We are unlocking all our online training courses and certification exams, and making them available for everybody for free. All registered users of our website can now access our previously-paid training ...

Migrating Client RIA Business Applications to Web with Vaadin
The lights are going out on all plugin-based Rich Internet Applications (RIA) with the end of Adobe Flash on December 31 2020, and the end of Microsoft Silverlight on October 12 2021. Lately, a few companies have been in touch with us regarding migration from these technologies to Vaadin. Not many ...

Performance testing a Vaadin application: Part 3 Apache JMeter
JMeter is one of the most popular performance testing tools. First released at the end of 1998, JMeter became the default choice for many companies needing to measure the performance of their software. In 2016, it was estimated that half of all companies performing load tests used JMeter. It is ...