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Build Customized Apps with Amazon Honeycode

By : Aniruddha Loya
Book Image

Build Customized Apps with Amazon Honeycode

By: Aniruddha Loya

Overview of this book

Amazon Honeycode enables you to build fully managed, customizable, and scalable mobile and web applications for personal or professional use with little to no code. With this practical guide to Amazon Honeycode, you’ll be able to bring your app ideas to life, improving your and your team’s/organization’s productivity. You’ll begin by creating your very first app from the get-go and use it as a means to explore the Honeycode development environment and concepts. Next, you’ll learn how to set up and organize the data to build and bind an app on Honeycode as well as deconstruct different templates to understand the common structures and patterns that can be used. Finally, you’ll build a few apps from scratch and discover how to apply the concepts you’ve learned. By the end of this app development book, you’ll have gained the knowledge you need to be able to build and deploy your own mobile and web applications. You’ll also be able to invite and share your app with people you want to collaborate with.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Part 1: Introduction to Honeycode
7
Part 2: Deep-Dive into Honeycode Templates
13
Part 3: Let's Build Some Apps

Reviewing the data model

With the template workbook created, we are now ready to review how the Honeycode team set up the data model for the Event Management app. However, before we dive into that, let's take a couple of minutes to think about the data that is required for such an app.

For an event, we will need to capture details including, but not limited to, the date, the time, the place, information about various activities in the event, information about the speakers or hosts in the case of workshops or talks, and more. We will need information about the participants, such as their name, their phone number, and their registration details. Furthermore, we would like to reduce the queues at the help desk by providing basic FAQs and self-help tools for participants.

Now that we have an idea of what data we need, let's explore the different tables in the workbook and the data they store, along with the relationship between them, if any. The template comes with nine...