Google App Maker: Building your App

Google App Maker: Building your App

• create new pages, page fragments and popup pages
• add input and display widgets
• add images and image files to an app
• change the visual theme, style variant and size of your widgets
• add CSS syntax to customize widgets
• create and use page fragments as popup dialogs
• edit page fragment options
• select and organize widgets in a page
• configure buttons for navigating between pages
• lock and hide widget and configure page settings
• rename, duplicate and delete pages

Google App Maker pages are what users will see when they use your app. Each page has a canvas for your to customize. You can navigate between pages and add various widgets to build your app's UI.

Course 3 is going to give you the tools you need for adding and configuring the different types of pages of your app, for example popup pages for notification windows. There are also many types of widgets you can add from the widget palette allowing you to insert data, images, text and buttons. You will also learn how to use CSS code to customize widgets to suit your app's style and purpose.

Google App Maker: Getting to Know the Application

Google App Maker: Getting to Know the Application

• acces and connect to Google App Maker
• open Apps and show the Welcome Dialog window
• navigate the application
• discover the Editor Page options
• discover your app's Pages and Editor Page options
• know how to export, import, delete and recover apps

Google App Maker is a G Suite application that you can use for creating your own apps from scratch. This first course will get you familiar with the app interface and the different ways in which you can create, edit and manage the apps you make.

Apps are made up of different elements such as Pages and Scripts which you can modify and duplicate. You can add different widgets to the Page canvas to build your app. Apps that you want to reuse can be exported and apps you no longer need can be deleted.

Google App Maker: Structuring your data model

Google App Maker: Structuring your data model

• discover and use templates to create apps
• plan the structure of an app by preparing its data and display
• create, add and manage data models
• add and edit fields
• configure different fields types
• create fields with a spreadsheet
• manage field organization and set a Primary Key and Display field
• use data for table and form creation
• find, configure and manage datasources
• add, configure and manage model relations
• manage events and security settings for models

Having got to know the basic elements and layout of an app this course will teach how to set up the different data models, fields and datasources that you will need to build the foundation of your app. You can also use the Google App Maker templates to give you a kick start in the right direction.

When you have created data models this will allow you to then start add fields. Fields can be added directly from App Maker or from an existing spreadsheet. You can also create relations between you data by connecting different data models. Or fields can be used to create form and table widgets in your app's pages.

Google App Maker: Using your application

Google App Maker: Using your application

• use shortcuts and your keyboard to edit your app
• use layout widgets for organizing your page
• use widgets to collect and save data
• import data from a spreadsheet
• configure your app settings
• test your app and tag a version
• manage and publish your app's revisions
• publish an application and configure deployment options
• edit and delete deployments

The final course for Google App Maker is going to help you get to grips with using your application to its fullest.

Importing data from a spreadsheet, testing your app works and publishing your app when it's ready are some of the things you'll learn about for getting your app up and running.