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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

Reviewing the data model

With the template workbook created, we are now ready to review how the Honeycode team set up the data model for the Survey app. However, before we dive into that, let's take a couple of minutes to think of the data that is required for such an app.

We are creating a survey, so it naturally has a set of questions and a set of provided answers for each question, or maybe an empty field for text input. We may need information about the survey itself, in terms of its creator, the creation date, and the end date. Furthermore, we'll need to store who our participants are and their responses.

Now that we have an idea of what data we need, let's explore the different tables in the workbook and the data they store, as well as the relationships between them, if any. This template comes with just four tables, as shown in Figure 7.3:

Figure 7.3 – A list of tables in a Simple Survey workbook

Let's understand each...