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Democratizing Application Development with AppSheet

You're reading from   Democratizing Application Development with AppSheet A citizen developer's guide to building rapid low-code apps with the powerful features of AppSheet

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803241173
Length 396 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Suvrutt Gurjar Suvrutt Gurjar
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Koichi Tsuji Koichi Tsuji
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Takuya Miyai Takuya Miyai
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1 – Introduction and Getting Started
2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with AppSheet FREE CHAPTER 3. Part 2 – App Editor and Main Features
4. Chapter 2: Understanding App Editor and Data Sources 5. Chapter 3: Presenting App Data with UX/Views 6. Chapter 4: Manipulating Data with Functions and Expressions 7. Chapter 5: Manipulating Data with Behaviors and Actions 8. Chapter 6: Controlling App Users and Data Security 9. Chapter 7: Managing the App Environment 10. Part 3 – Advanced Features and External Services
11. Chapter 8: Automating Recurring Data Changes and Scheduling Tasks 12. Chapter 9: Using Intelligence and Advanced Features 13. Chapter 10: Extending App Capabilities with Third-Party Services 14. Part 4 – App Templates and Tricks for App Building
15. Chapter 11: Building More Apps with App Templates 16. Chapter 12: Tips and Tricks 17. Chapter 13: Appendix 18. Index 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating a new app from your own data

Considering your data is in the right format as a Google Sheets spreadsheet, let’s create your first app using it. Log in to AppSheet, and you will arrive on the My Apps page. AppSheet quite frequently changes its UX; the following figure shows what it looks like at the time of writing:

Figure 2.4 – The My Apps page

As the name suggests, this page presents the list of the apps you have created, or apps that you have been added to as a co-author.

Now, let’s create a new app by following these steps:

  1. Click the Create button in the upper-left corner of this page. When you click on it, you will see two different options, Start with existing data and Start with a template.
  2. Select the Start with existing data option. Then, a dialog box appears where you are asked to name the app you are going to create and to select a category out of the list.
  3. Click the Choose your data button at the bottom...
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