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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

Summary

In this chapter, we reviewed the Simple Survey template and learned its data model and how the app is built. We learned some new functions (IFERROR, FindRow, and FindLastRow) and terms (rowlink and dereferencing), and we also learned how visibility conditions can be used in an app as a means of input validation.

While there were some new concepts learned, the app and the template were very basic and lacked many features we typically see in a survey-creating or administering service. In this app, there is no means to create a new survey without updating the data model and the corresponding update to the survey screen. The template, therefore, has limited extensibility.

However, this is not to say we cannot have a more powerful survey app in Honeycode. In the next chapter, we will continue our template deep-dives and review the Instant Polls template, which will give you some ideas on how to improve this Survey app.