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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

Searching, filtering, and sorting data views on the fly

In a list of items, the requirement to be able to search, filter, and sort the data becomes a necessity as the list begins to grow. Like the creation of personalized views, Honeycode makes the inclusion of these three features a breeze. Let's check it out:

  1. Go to the My Tasks screen. Select List and open the properties panel if not already open.
  2. Under the DISPLAY tab, locate the APP USER CONTROLS property and the three checkboxes for Search, Filter, and Sort. Select these checkboxes, and voila – the feature to search, filter, and sort in the tasks list is now available in the My Tasks screen of our app:
Figure 4.18 – Fields to enable searching, filtering, and sorting in the list

Figure 4.18 – Fields to enable searching, filtering, and sorting in the list

Note

In Figure 4.18, the new icons appear over the segment containing task details as you select the fields in the panel. Also, note that, by default, the first column of the table is selected...