What is Evoke
Evoke from BlueFinity, is a low-code/no-code App development platform designed to provide for the fast development and deployment of mobile, desktop and web apps. Using drag & drop, options select and point & click, Evoke allows your existing staff to build business apps, and extend enterprise applications, for your customers, employees and partners in a fraction of the time and cost of regular methods. See a Video Introduction.
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Multiple platforms and devices - Based on a single design and code base, Evoke will support the deployment of Apps across multiple platforms and devices. Through Evoke you can dynamically, change a single user interface so that multiple sizes, types and operating systems of these devices are provided for, presenting the users of each device with optimum visual displays. All the regular devices are supported including the iPad, iPhone, Android and Windows phones & tablets, plus Windows, Linux and Apple desktop.
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Design, Build, Customize - Evokes powerful designer provides you with all you need to produce quality apps to meet your current business requirements. You can quickly build your user interfaces, define and manage your data, and employ Evoke guidance and business logic to create your app. And as requirements change then the Evoke designer allows for speedy customisation of your app, where the single design structure means you only have to make your changes once, and immediately generate the app for your multiple devices.
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Libraries and Functions - You can create a no-code (just drag & drop/point and click/option select) full function app in hours or days using Evoke's Comprehensive Component Library of actions (Click Actions), Over 100 different UI widgets (Widget Library), standalone components including Web services, Google Maps, 360° images and hotspotting, embedded videos, Chatbots, etc. (Components), easy to configure Selections, Adaptations, Navigation, colors, styles, fonts, etc, and Language support that lets different users see your app in different langauges. Then with one click of the Evoke Generate button, let Evoke turn your app design into a deployable app that your users can log into.
- Flexibility in data management - Data management is a fundamental design feature of Evoke as it presents you with multiple options as to ways to design your apps without being restricted by the way your data is held. You can access different databases, different types of databases and combine information for optimum use in your app design. Your apps can be fully integrated with back-end systems, and you can obtain immediate synchronisation of data between your user devices and your back-end databases and systems.
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No-Limits development - How you elect to deploy your apps is completely your choice as Evoke will support the generation of Web apps, Hybrid apps or you can generate industry standard Visual Studio and Xamarin projects to deploy as native apps or to form part of your onward development program. Migrate from web apps to hybrid to native, all are supported through Evokes single design structure.
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Standardized technologies - With Evoke you are also able to safeguard against escalating future costs. The product's flexible and customizable apps along with Evoke's powerful run-time libraries will enable you to adapt to ever changing technologies and business requirements. Together with Evoke's adherence to Application Lifecycle Management to support the entire development, management and customisation process, the powerful options and growth paths open to you through Evoke are unlimited, and most importantly will future proof your Apps.
- Development Environment - Prerequisites for the Windows 10/11 or higher computer that Evoke is to be installed on are: Windows operating system
32GB memory (or above are best) but 16GB is acceptable
Disk space requirements depend on the size of the apps(s) created
Visual Studio (2019 or higher community edition is ok)
Database - either SQL or MultiValue or both
If database is SQL then in appropriate management tools i.e. SQL Server Management Studio.
If database is MultiValue then mv.Net (version 4.3 or above) - provided as part of Evoke license.