Democratizing Application Development with AppSheet

A citizen developer's guide to building rapid low-code apps with the powerful features of AppSheet

By: Koichi Tsuji, Suvrutt Gurjar, Takuya Miyai

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eText | 6 January 2023 | Edition Number 1

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A hands-on guide to building sophisticated business applications and automation using AppSheet that can deliver business results in a quick time without writing lines of code

Key Features

Learn how the AppSheet editor works to configure, test and deploy a business app without writing lines of code
Get hands-on experience with AppSheet by building a real-world application throughout the book
Useful tips and tricks to develop custom functionalities in the app to meet unique business needs

Book Description

The book enables citizen developers to create their own simple or complex hybrid apps for business or personal use. The book teaches how to combine features together so the app would be efficient and easy to use for the end user. Many Citizen developers regularly use spreadsheets in their business and day-to-day jobs. They can use the AppSheet platform to take their spreadsheets work to the next level of ease of use. AppSheet platform will allow citizen developers to run their business more efficiently and manage it in the field outside of the office or indoor environment.

As the book progresses, readers will learn how the AppSheet editor works and how is used to configure, test and deploy the app. You will learn widely used features such as how to effectively use data sources, create app views, and actions, and how you can make your app secure through security options and user-friendly through UX options. You will learn to create, store in the cloud, and send files through emails. You will learn to integrate third-party services. You will build an app throughout the book discussion so that you get hands-on experience.

By the end of this book, you will be able to build medium-complexity AppSheet apps using the AppSheet features discussed in the book.

What you will learn

How the AppSheet app is presented for app users, what kind of views you can use and how to format your data with colors and icons
Understand various Expressions and Formulas such as Math expressions, Text expressions, Time expressions, and so on
Use data change actions for quick data changes of enum columns, on a set or records, to add or edit records in other tables
Add or delete and define editing permissions, how to broadcast notifications to inform changes to users
Upgrade app version, view and restore an old app version to the latest current version

Who This Book Is For

This book is aimed at beginner and intermediate citizen application developers in small or medium size businesses and business users who want to develop their own business apps. The readers are expected to have basic knowledge of Google Sheets or Excel and an understanding of different spreadsheet formulas. An added knowledge of SQL and some basic software development knowledge is beneficial but not necessary.