Build Customized Apps with Amazon Honeycode: Quickly create interactive web and mobile apps for your teams without programming

Length: 438 pages
Edition: 1
Language: English
Publisher: Packt Publishing
Publication Date: 2022-06-17
ISBN-10: 1800563698
ISBN-13: 9781800563698
Sales Rank: #0 (See Top 100 Books)

A non-developer’s guide to harnessing the power of Amazon Honeycode apps to manage projects, customers, operations, approvals, resources, and teams

Key Features

A practical guide to Amazon Web Services (AWS) no-code app development for meeting specific needs of customers
Create apps quickly without paying for costly developers using Honeycode’s in-built templates and functions
Learn how to use stable AWS services to supplement Honeycode’s present limits

Book Description

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.

What you will learn

Build mobile and web applications with simple drag-drops and customizations
Deploy and share apps and collaborate in real-time with your team
Understand how to create automated processes in apps
Create a customized view for each app user or a group of users
Import existing data from a CSV and build an app on top of it
Create connectors to external data sources
Build applications using Honeycode either from scratch or by modifying an existing template
Explore Honeycode templates and understand what use cases are available out-of-the-box with these templates

Who this book is for

Like the platform, this book is meant for everyone – professional and novice developers alike – who want to build and deploy apps for their personal or professional use as an individual or as a team. However, for professional developers, it is important to note that the book will not focus on advanced use cases with features like using public APIs and 3P integrations. No programming knowledge or experience is needed to start creating basic apps. However, working knowledge of Microsoft Excel or similar spreadsheet tools and a general understanding of logical statements will be helpful to get the most out of this book.

Build Customized Apps with Amazon Honeycode
Contributors
About the author
About the reviewer
Preface
    Who this book is for
    What this book covers
    Download the color images
    Conventions used
    Get in touch
    Share Your Thoughts
Part 1: Introduction to Honeycode
Chapter 1: Amazon Honeycode – Day One
    Technical requirements
    Creating the first application
        Creating an account on Amazon Honeycode
        Creating a To-Do application
    Running the application on the web and a mobile
        Running our To-Do application on a web browser
        Running our To-Do application on a mobile device
    Summary
Chapter 2: Introduction to Amazon Honeycode
    Technical requirements
    Exploring Honeycode Dashboard
        Dashboard
        Teams
        Learning & Resources
    Exploring a Honeycode Workbook
        Left Navigation Bar
        Tables
        Builder
        Automations
    Understanding Honeycode Teams
        Adding team members
        Managing a team
    Honeycode's pricing tiers
    Summary
Chapter 3: Building Your First Honeycode Application
    Technical requirements
    Defining the app requirements
    Creating the app data model
        Creating a workbook
        Creating tables
        Data formats and relations
    Building the app interface
        Creating an app from scratch
        Creating an app using App Wizard
    Summary
Chapter 4: Advanced Builder Tools
    Technical requirements
    Defining the app requirements
    Applying styles to app components
        Style controls in Honeycode
        Conditional-styling app components
        Styling the To-Do App
    Controlling the component visibility with conditions
    Restricting data access per user using personalized views
    Searching, filtering, and sorting data views on the fly
    Summary
Chapter 5: Powering Apps with Automations
    Technical requirements
    Defining the app requirements
    Understanding variables in Honeycode
        User-defined variables
        System variables
    Making apps more powerful with automations
        Using actions for data input through forms
        Adding functionality to delete a task
    Processing data with automation based on triggers
        Sending reminders based on set preference
        Sending a task completion notification to the task creator
    Debugging automations
    Summary
Part 2: Deep-Dive into Honeycode Templates
Chapter 6: Introduction to Honeycode Templates
    Technical requirements
    Getting to know Honeycode templates
        Applicant Tracker 
        Collaborative brainstorming  
        Connect manager
        Content tracker 
        Customer tracker
        Employee onboarding
        Event management
        Field Service Agent
        Instant Polls
        Inventory Management
        Launch Manager
        Meeting Runner
        PO Approvals
        Simple Survey 
        Simple To-Do
        Team Task Tracker
        Timeoff Reporting
        Timesheet Manager
        Weekly Demo Schedule
    Summary
Chapter 7: A Simple Survey Template
    Technical requirements
    Defining the app requirements
    Creating the Survey app
    Reviewing the data model
        Results
        Scale
        Survey
        _README
    Reviewing the app
        Home
        Thanks
        Survey
    Summary
Chapter 8: Instant Polls Template
    Technical requirements
    Defining app requirements
    Creating an Instant Polls app
    Reviewing the data model
        Last_Visits
        Options
        Questions
        Votes
        z_Readme
    Reviewing the app
        Polls
        New Poll
        Cast a Vote
    Summary
Chapter 9: Event Management Template
    Technical requirements
    Defining the app requirements
    Creating an Event Management app
    Reviewing the data model
        A_Sessions
        B_FAQ
        D_Registrations
        M_Category
        M_Dates
        M_Ratings
        M_Speakers
        R_Dashboard
        _Readme
    Reviewing the app
        Sessions
        Detail
        My Agenda
        Speakers
        By Category
        FAQ
    Summary
Chapter 10: Inventory Management Template
    Technical requirements
    Defining the app requirements
    Creating an Inventory Management app
    Reviewing the data model
        Categories
        Devices
        Inventory
        Manufacturers
        Status
        _Readme
    Reviewing the apps
        My Devices app
        My Devices – Manager app
    Summary
Part 3: Let's Build Some Apps
Chapter 11: Building a Shopping List App in Honeycode
    Technical requirements
    Defining the app requirements
    Translating requirements to app interactions
    Defining the data model
    Building the app
        Creating a new workbook
        Creating tables
        Creating the app
        Clearing the bought items list
        Building an app using the Wizard
    Summary
Chapter 12: Building a Nominate and Vote App in Honeycode
    Technical requirements
    Defining the app requirements
    Translating requirements to app interactions
    Defining the data model
    Building the app
        Creating the template app
        Setting up the tables
        Editing the template app
        Functionalities just for organizers
        Restricting voting to a panel of judges
    Summary
Chapter 13: Conducting Periodic Business Reviews Using Honeycode
    Technical requirements
    Defining the app requirements
    Translating requirements to app interactions
    Defining the data model
    Building the app
        Creating a new workbook
        Creating tables
        Creating the app
        Sending review updates to all and archiving the updates
        Sending reminders for providing updates
    Summary
Chapter 14: Solving Problems through Multiple Apps within a Workbook
    Technical requirements
    Defining the app requirements
    Translating requirements to app interactions
        The Realtor app
        The Client app
    Defining the data model
    Building the app
        Creating a new workbook
        Creating tables
        Creating the Realtor app
        Creating the Buyer app
        Creating the Seller app
        Discussion
    Summary
Assessments
    Chapter 4 – Advanced Builder Tools in Honeycode
        Exercise 1
        Exercise 2 
        Exercise 3.1 
        Exercise 3.2
        Exercise 4 
    Chapter 5 – Powering the Honeycode Apps with Automations
        Exercise 1 
        Exercise 2 
    Chapter 7 – Simple Survey Template
        Exercise 1 
    Chapter 8 – Instant Polls Template
        Exercise 1. Can you think of another way of achieving the same result of separate text color based on a specified condition?
    Chapter 9 – Event Management Template
        Exercise 1 
    Chapter 10 – Inventory Management Template
        Exercise 1 
        Exercise 2 
        Exercise 3 
    Chapter 11 – Building a Shopping List App in Honeycode
        Exercise 1
        Exercise 2
        Exercise 3
    Chapter 12 – Building a Nominate and Vote App in Honeycode
        Exercise 1
    Chapter 13 – Conducting Periodic Business Reviews Using Honeycode
        Exercise 1 
    Chapter 14 – Solving Complex Problems through Multiple Apps Within a Workbook
        Exercise 1
        Exercise 2
        Exercise 3
        Exercise 4
        Exercise 5
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