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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

Chapter 1: Amazon Honeycode – Day One

Amazon Honeycode's key value proposition is to enable users to build and deploy mobile and web applications with minimal to zero need of programming. Therefore, we'll start this book by enabling you to discover this power and value right at the first step.

You will first create your Honeycode account, and then in less than 2 minutes, you will be able to create and use a simple To-Do app that runs on both mobile devices and on laptops/desktops following some simple steps and a few clicks.

Are you wondering what Amazon Honeycode is? What are the key features, major components, and where are the other details that are typically covered at the start of a book? Do not worry – we have you covered in Chapter 2, Introduction to Honeycode. However, before all those details, let's zoom through the core product and learn what it has to offer.

In this chapter, we're going to cover the following main topics:

  • Creating the first application
  • Running the application on the web and mobile devices