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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

Making apps more powerful with automations

In Chapter 2, Introduction to Honeycode, we learned that Honeycode categorizes automation into two types – Workbook automations and App automations, also referred to as Actions. In this section, we will learn to add some of these actions to our ToDo app and provide the foundation for using actions.

Using actions for data input through forms

Data input into the system is one of the key use cases for most applications, except a few that are meant to be used as read-only. In Chapter 3, Building Your First Honeycode Application, we used the Form control provided in Honeycode to create the Add New Task screen for adding new tasks to our ToDo list. By now, you will have used that screen many times to create new tasks and found that they were being added to your list seamlessly.

However, when in Chapter 4, Advanced Builder Tools in Honeycode, we added two new fields to our list, namely Notes and Assignee, we added them to the Edit...