Universal Theme, first introduced with APEX 5 in 2015, is the User Interface for Oracle APEX applications and is continually updated with every release with features and enhancements to empower developers to build modern responsive apps that are highly accessible, easily customizable, and easy to maintain.
The latest release of APEX, 21.1, continues this tradition and delivers several UI-focused enhancements, and updates to Universal Theme, that provide developers with even greater control and flexibility of their applications. Here are some of the features in this release:
- Modern CSS and Performance Improvements
- Font APEX 2.2
- Refreshed Redwood Light Theme Style
- Theme Roller Updates
- New Row and Column CSS Classes attributes
- New Templates and Template Options
Modern CSS and Performance Improvements
Stylesheets in Universal Theme have been refactored to use modern CSS features such as CSS variables, grid layout, and flex-box to provide a more flexible and robust user interface. As an added benefit, Universal Theme is able to rely less upon JavaScript for page layouts, resulting in faster paint times. In addition, using CSS variables now enables easy customization of nearly every CSS property in the theme, and enables plug-in developers to reference the same variables so that the plugin adopts the UI customizations from Theme Roller and your custom Theme Styles. As a result of this CSS modernization effort, we were able to see a 15% reduction in CSS for Universal Theme, further improving page load times.
Font APEX 2.2
Font APEX has been expanded with the addition of 95 additional icons with a focus on medical applications, map markers, and extra file types. We’ve also made minor tweaks to a few existing icons so they fit in better with the rest of the ….. Read more