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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

Chapter 3: Building Your First Honeycode Application

In the first chapter, we created an out-of-the-box To-Do application using an existing template. Honeycode offers many more templates to provide a starting point for a myriad of use cases; however, the true power of the platform lies in the flexibility and ease it provides to adapt existing templates or build something from the ground up.

There are two key components in building an app – data modeling and interface creation. And to start our learning journey for both these components, we'll reuse the example of a To-Do app and, this time, build the application from the ground up. Moreover, we'll continue to use the application we built here in Chapter 4, Advanced Builder Tools in Honeycode, and Chapter 5, Powering the Honeycode Apps with Automations, to add new capabilities to our app as we learn the advanced topics in the builder and automations.

In the previous chapter, we learned about the different components...