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Democratizing Application Development with AppSheet

By : Koichi Tsuji, Suvrutt Gurjar, Takuya Miyai
Book Image

Democratizing Application Development with AppSheet

By: Koichi Tsuji, Suvrutt Gurjar, Takuya Miyai

Overview of this book

Many citizen developers regularly use spreadsheets in their business and day-to-day jobs. With AppSheet, you can take your spreadsheets to the next level by enhancing their ease of use. The platform allows you to run your business efficiently and manage it in the field outside of an office or indoor environment. This book enables you to create your own simple or medium to complex hybrid apps for business or personal use. As a beginner to AppSheet, this book will show you how the AppSheet Editor works and how it is used to configure, test, and deploy an app and share it with others as users or co-authors. You’ll learn about widely used features such as how to use data sources, create app views and actions, construct expressions with AppSheet functions, and make your app secure through security and UX options. Next, you’ll create email/attachment templates and develop reports/documents based on templates, store in the cloud, and send files through emails. You’ll also understand how to integrate third-party services and monitor various usage statistics of your app. As you progress, you’ll explore various features with the help of sample apps that you create using the book. By the end of this book, you’ll have learned how to make the most of AppSheet to build powerful and efficient applications.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Part 1 – Introduction and Getting Started
3
Part 2 – App Editor and Main Features
10
Part 3 – Advanced Features and External Services
14
Part 4 – App Templates and Tricks for App Building

Summary

In this chapter, we learned how you can create a portfolio page of template apps. We also learned how you can share apps with your teams as team sample apps or with anyone with an AppSheet account as public sample apps.

We also learned about the options that are available for copying template apps created by others. You can copy template apps available on the App templates page from the AppSheet home page. The second option is to copy the template apps from the portfolio pages of the other AppSheet app creators. The third option you have is to refer to the template apps shared with this book.

We also learned that it is a good practice for you to create template apps for your own reference. You learned that you can create template apps for your own ready reference with certain frequently used but somewhat complex functions, including date/time or multi-row functions such as SELECT() and LOOKUP(). You can also build template apps with certain complex features, including...