Understanding actions and action types
In this section, you will learn what actions are and the various types of actions you can configure in an app. You will learn the various configuration settings for actions. You will also learn how the app editor automatically creates certain actions called system actions.
What are actions?
Actions are powerful components that help you perform quick behaviors such as data changes and app navigation with the tap of a button in an app. The following screenshot shows an example of what actions look like and how they are placed in the detail view of an app. Actions show up in views as buttons with suitable icons and names or appear as icons with the name showing in the tooltip. Actions can also be indirectly invoked when the user carries out certain events in the app. We will learn about all these options in this chapter.
Figure 5.1 – Actions in the detail view
The preceding screenshot shows icons of four actions...
