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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 4: Advanced Builder Tools

In the previous chapter, the To-Do app we built was functional, but it was very basic and left much to be desired when compared with any app we use in our day-to-day lives. The good news is that Honeycode offers a lot more tools for customization and improving the presentation and functionality of our apps. In this chapter, we'll explore some of the advanced functionality that enables app builders to improve the presentation with conditional styling and controlling the visibility of different components, increase functionality by adding controls for filtering and sorting views, and provide customized views for each app user using personalization.

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

  • Applying styles to app components
  • Controlling the component visibility with conditions
  • Filtering and sorting data views on the fly
  • Restricting data access per user using personalized views
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