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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

Translating requirements to app interactions

Based on the requirements we listed in the previous section, our app will have four primary views:

  1. View all ongoing contests.
  2. View all nominations for a contest and vote (if allowed).
  3. View the contest details and submit a nomination(s).
  4. An organizer's view of the overall status of the contest with vote counts and details.

Users should be able to select the running contests, which should take them to a screen with all the submitted nominations. Clicking on the nominations should show the details of the entry, which is useful if, as part of the nomination, there is a requirement to provide additional context for the entry.

Against the nominations list, we would like to have a button to vote, and it should be visible or enabled only for people eligible to vote. The button should work as a toggle to vote and retract. If there is a limitation on the number of votes per person, buttons should be disabled when...