Extending App Capabilities with Third-Party Services

There are quite a few open source services available these days. In this chapter, we’ll explore a few external services that will add some flavor to your apps, such as a dynamic image with text and a colored background or a dynamic image-based static chart. We will also see how to set up integrations with Google Workspace applications such as Google Chat.

Throughout this chapter, we will go through a few examples to introduce use cases where we implement third-party services to enhance the functionality of our apps. AppSheet provides a number of different features overall. But the techniques we will learn about in this chapter provide us with additional functions that extend the capabilities of AppSheet. These techniques include improving the visual appearance of your data and connecting to external services.

There are thousands of external services that can communicate with AppSheet. Once you have completed this chapter...