Democratizing Application Development with AppSheet: A citizen developer's guide to building rapid low-code apps with the powerful features of AppShee

A hands-on guide to building sophisticated business applications and automation using AppSheet to deliver business results quickly 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
• Explore useful tips and tricks to develop custom functionalities in the app to meet unique business needs

Book Description:

This book enables citizen developers to create their own simple or medium complex hybrid apps for business or personal use. It shows you how to combine features to make your app more efficient and easy to use for the end user.

Many citizen developers regularly use spreadsheets in their business and day-to-day jobs. With AppSheet, you can take your spreadsheets to the next level by enhancing their ease of use. The platform allows citizen developers to run their business significantly more efficiently and manage it in the field outside of an office or indoor environment.

As a beginner in Appsheet, this book will show you how the AppSheet Editor works and how it is used to configure, test, and deploy an app and share it with others as users or co-authors. You'll learn about widely used features such as how to effectively use data sources, create app views and actions, construct expressions with AppSheet functions, and make your app secure through security options and user-friendly UX options. After that, you'll go on to create email /attachment templates and create reports/documents based on templates, store in the cloud, and send files through emails. You'll also understand how to integrate third-party services. You will learn how to monitor various usage statistics of your app. As you progress through the chapters, you will learn various features with the help of sample apps we have created for the book.

What You Will Learn:

• Discover how the AppSheet app is presented for app users
• Explore different views you can use and how to format your data with colors and icons
• Understand AppSheet functions such as Yes/No, text, math, list, date and time and build expressions with those functions
• Learn different actions such as data change, app navigation, external communication, CSV Import/Export
• Add/delete and define editing permissions and learn to broadcast notifications and inform users of changes
• Build a Bot through AppSheet Automation feature to automate various business workflows

Who this book is for:

This book is for beginner and intermediate citizen application developers in small or medium size businesses and business users who want to develop their own business apps. Basic knowledge of Google Sheets or Excel and an understanding of different spreadsheet formulas are required. Knowledge of SQL and basic software development is beneficial but not necessary.

這本書是一本實用指南，教你如何使用AppSheet建立複雜的商業應用程式和自動化流程，快速實現業務成果，而無需撰寫程式碼。

重點特色：
- 學習AppSheet編輯器的使用方式，配置、測試和部署商業應用程式，無需撰寫程式碼
- 透過在整本書中建立一個真實應用程式的實踐經驗，深入了解AppSheet
- 探索有用的技巧和訣竅，開發符合獨特業務需求的自訂功能

書籍描述：
這本書讓公民開發者能夠創建自己的簡單或中等複雜的混合應用程式，用於商業或個人用途。它向你展示如何結合各種功能，使應用程式對最終用戶更高效和易於使用。

許多公民開發者在他們的業務和日常工作中經常使用試算表。使用AppSheet，您可以提升試算表的易用性。這個平台讓公民開發者能夠在辦公室或室內環境之外的場地中更高效地運營和管理他們的業務。

作為AppSheet的初學者，本書將向您展示AppSheet編輯器的工作原理，以及如何使用它來配置、測試和部署應用程式，並與他人共享作為使用者或共同作者。您將學習到廣泛使用的功能，例如如何有效使用數據源、創建應用程式視圖和操作、使用AppSheet函數構建表達式，以及通過安全選項和用戶友好的UX選項使應用程式更安全。之後，您將學習創建電子郵件/附件模板，並基於模板創建報告/文件，存儲在雲端並通過電子郵件發送文件。您還將了解如何集成第三方服務。您將學習如何監控應用程式的各種使用統計數據。隨著章節的進展，您將通過我們為本書創建的示例應用程式學習各種功能。

你將學到什麼：
- 了解AppSheet應用程式如何呈現給應用程式使用者
- 探索不同的視圖和如何使用顏色和圖示格式化數據
- 理解AppSheet函數，如Yes/No、文本、數學、列表、日期和時間，並使用這些函數構建表達式
- 學習不同的操作，如數據更改、應用程式導航、外部通信、CSV導入/導出
- 添加/刪除和定義編輯權限，並學習廣播通知，通知用戶有變更
- 通過AppSheet自動化功能建立機器人，自動化各種業務工作流程

適合閱讀對象：
本書適合初學者和中級公民應用程式開發者，以及小型或中型企業和業務用戶希望開發自己的業務應用程式。需要基本的Google Sheets或Excel知識，以及對不同試算表公式的理解。了解SQL和基本軟體開發知識將有助於閱讀，但不是必需的。