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Build Customized Apps with Amazon Honeycode

By : Aniruddha Loya
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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

Exploring a Honeycode Workbook

In this section, we'll explore a Honeycode workbook and dive into the three key components that it is made up of, namely:

  • Tables
  • Builder
  • Automations

For this section, we'll use the Simple To-Do workbook created in Chapter 1, Amazon Honeycode - Day 1, to illustrate and explain the components. So, let's load our workbook by clicking on the pencil icon next to the ToDo app from the Dashboard (see Figure 2.2). Our workbook will load into the Builder view, displaying the ToDo app. Also, note the black bar on the left. This is the Left Nav Bar, which contains different icons to help you navigate to the different components of the workbook, as well as shortcuts for other key components in Honeycode. Given that we will need to use this bar extensively for moving around the different components of our workbook, let's review it before diving into the workbook components.

Left Navigation Bar

The Left Navigation Bar...