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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

Creating an Inventory Management app

Now that we know how we want our app to work, let's see what the template app can do. Let's begin by creating the app and the associated workbook. Perform the following steps:

  1. On the Dashboard screen, locate the Create workbook button from the upper-right corner and click on it.
  2. You will see that a popup appears. Underneath the USE A TEMPLATE header (as shown in Figure 10.1), locate a tile with the label Inventory Management and click on it:

Figure 10.1 – Selecting the Inventory Management template

  1. Next, you will see a popup allowing you to name the workbook and choose a team. For now, let's leave the default values as they are. Click on the Create button.

Figure 10.2 – Providing the workbook name and team details for creating the workbook

  1. This creates and loads our Inventory Management workbook and loads up the workbook in the Tables view...