June 2020 Update of Adobe Developer App Builder: Custom App Publishing and Custom Events

Adobe Developer App Builder is our framework for building custom cloud-native Adobe apps. Last month, we officially launched App Builder’s developer preview, and since then the team has continued to make improvements and enhancements to help you better extend the functionality of Adobe Experience Platform and Adobe Experience Cloud.

In this release of App Builder, you can now publish App Builder apps on Experience Cloud, along with the ability to harness the power of event-based integrations in your custom apps.

By combining home-grown and third-party technologies in App Builder, enterprise customers and partners can build apps that are tailored to their specific business and workflow needs. We hope these new features make it an even more powerful platform for you to address your unique business challenges. If you’re an enterprise user of Adobe, you can apply to take part in the developer preview of App Builder here, and read on for more details on everything new in this release.

Publishing App Builder apps on Adobe Experience Cloud

In this release of App Builder, you can now publish your custom App Builder applications on Adobe Experience Cloud. This means users will now be able to easily find your app right alongside their other Experience Cloud apps for easy use. Here’s how publishing works:

  1. Submit your app: A developer completes the app submission process via Adobe Exchange, our marketplace for creating and publishing integrations.
  2. App approval and management: Your company’s system administrator reviews and approves the app (or revokes permissions).
  3. Tracking apps: Authorized users can view the status of the application in the Adobe Developer Console, the whole time.
  4. Secure access: Access rules apply, so only users with approved access to the Adobe product in question will actually be able to use your App Builder app.

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Adobe I/O Custom Events come to App Builder

App Builder allows developers to take advantage of event-based integrations using Adobe I/O Events when building their App Builder apps. Now, users will be able to access a template, which they can use to publish custom events in the CloudEvents format. Users will also be able to use the Adobe CLI commands for subscribing to existing Events providers, along with registering custom event providers. We’ll be sharing more details about the CloudEvents format, why we chose it for App Builder, and the Custom Events SDK in a future post. Stay tuned!

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Apply for the developer preview today

Our team is hard at work building, improving, and enhancing App Builder to provide the best tool possible for extending Adobe solutions through custom apps. The updates in this release are a big step forward in our continuing mission to help enterprise developers and partners build better custom experiences for their customers and employees.

If you’re an enterprise developer and you build apps (or want to build apps) that extend Adobe Experience Cloud solutions, apply to take part in our free developer preview, and continue to watch the Adobe Tech Blog for more news, resources, and stories about App Builder. We’ll share how developers across the globe are using it to create custom apps that improve business outcomes. To learn more, head over to the App Builder homepage.