Book Image

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

Defining the app requirements

Before building any app, it is useful to list the requirements or the use cases that the app is expected to fulfill. This helps in conceptualizing the application interface, defining the data model, and visualizing the interactions between various onscreen elements as well as the data displayed.

Before reading any further, take a few minutes to list the requirements for a To-Do app and then come back to see how your list compares to the one we have here:

  • I must be able to add a new task.
  • I must be able to change an existing task.
  • I must be able to set a due date on the task.
  • I must be able to set a reminder preference on the task from the following values – due date, 1 day before, and 1 week before.
  • I must be able to mark a task as complete once it's done.
  • I must be able to reopen a completed task.
  • I would like to see incomplete tasks ordered by the due date.
  • I would like to see completed tasks ordered...