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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

Creating the app data model

In Chapter 2, Introduction to Honeycode we learned how tables in Honeycode serve as the data store for the applications. Therefore, creating a data model for the app entails creating tables and defining the relationship between them through the use of picklists, filters, and rowlinks. In the previous section, we identified that based on our requirements, we would need two separate tables:

  • One that contains all the tasks and their related information (also referred to as the metadata)
  • One for defining the three available reminder preferences

So, let's start to create these tables and define our data model, but before we do that, we also need to create a new workbook.

Creating a workbook

On the Dashboard, locate the Create Workbook button on the top-right corner and click it:

  1. In the popup that loads, click on Start from Scratch, as shown in Figure 3.1:
Figure 3.1 – Creating a new empty workbook

Figure 3.1 – Creating a new...