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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

Defining the app requirements

We first introduced this section in Chapter 3, Building Your First Honeycode Application, where, before building our app, we made a list of all the requirements or use cases that we wanted the app to fulfill. Additionally, we made use of that list throughout the chapters as a guide to define our data model, conceptualize the application interface, and visualize the interactions between the various onscreen elements and the data being displayed. Therefore, even though we are not going to build this app here, we will review what is built. I would encourage you to take 5 minutes to think about what your app should do and what it should look like, and then make a list of the requirements.

To-Do

Take 5 minutes and make a list of how you would like your Inventory Management app to work.

Here is what my list looks like:

  1. App users must be able to view the inventory, its allocation, and its availability.
  2. App users must be able to record to...