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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

Understanding variables in Honeycode

Variables, in general, are placeholders that can assume or be assigned different values based on the context. In Honeycode too, they serve a similar feature and while we did come across and set variables in the previous chapters, we did not spend time detailing their importance, which we will cover in this section.

In Honeycode, there are two types of variables, distinguished by how they are made available: user-defined variables and system variables. They will both be discussed in the following subsections. In terms of representation, both types of variables are represented the same way: $[Variable_Name].

User-defined variables

In Honeycode, user-defined variables are created and configured only through a data cell. As noted in Chapter 2, Introduction to Honeycode, a data cell allows us to display data from a table by creating direct mapping to it. At the same time, it can also be used to pass data from one app screen to another, as well...