A non-developer's guide to harnessing the power of Amazon Honeycode apps to manage projects, customers, operations, approvals, resources, and teams
Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook
What’s inside
- A practical guide to Amazon Web Services (AWS) no-code app development for meeting specific needs of customers
- Step-by-step instructions on how to build apps quickly without paying for costly developers using Honeycode's in-built templates and functions
- Advice on how to leverage stable AWS services to supplement Honeycode's present limits
You'll get the most out of this book if
- You want to build and deploy apps for personal or professional use as an individual or as a team – like the platform, this book is appropriate for all skill levels
- You’re more interested in the basics than advanced use cases like using public APIs and 3P integrations – this book won’t be covering those
- You have little to no programming knowledge or experience, but you know how to work with Microsoft Excel basics or a similar spreadsheet tool and have a general understanding of logical statements
Your journey through the book
You'll learn by creating an app from scratch and using it as a means to explore the Honeycode development environment and concepts. Alog the way, you’ll find out 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.
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.
Some of the things you'll learn in this book
- How to bring your mobile and web application ideas to life with simple drag-drops and customizations
- Deploying and sharing apps while collaborating in real-time with your team
- Designing automated processes in apps
- Creating a customized view for each app user or a group of users
- Importing existing data from a CSV and build an app on top of it
- Creating connectors to external data sources
- Building applications using Honeycode either from scratch or by modifying an existing template
- How to use Honeycode templates and understand what use cases are available out-of-the-box
Table of Contents
- Amazon Honeycode – Day 1
- Introduction to Honeycode
- Building your first Honeycode Application
- Advanced builder tools in Honeycode
- Powering the Honeycode apps with Automations
- Introduction to Honeycode Templates
- Simple Survey Template
- How to quick create and customize Honeycode for Simple Survey
- How to quick create and customize Honeycode for Event Management
- Inventory Management Template
- How to build a Shopping list in Honeycode
- Building a Nominate & Vote App in Honeycode
- How to conduct periodic business reviews using Honeycode
- How to solve complex problems through multiple apps within a workbook - Realtor listings, viewings and bookings
Aniruddha Loya is the core member of the team that built and launched Honeycode Software. He did M.Sc. in Computer Science from EPFL and B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT-Delhi. He has nearly 3 years of experience working on the development of Amazon Honeycode and now working as a Software Manager at PocketPills.
