Appendix

You have almost read through the whole book, and we hope you now have good knowledge of how to build an app using the various AppSheet features. Using the knowledge you have acquired throughout this book, it is time for you to start to build your own application with AppSheet suitable for your own business requirements. However, you may notice that you need more advanced knowledge and techniques to fulfill your own requirements while developing your apps. Once new advanced functionalities are required within your app, it is natural that you will be required to apply more advanced settings to implement the app’s behaviors and functionalities.

This book is designed for absolute beginners who are starting their journey with AppSheet. We have only mentioned the really basic things, which are the minimum things to know. The number of things AppSheet can do is extensive, and AppSheet can do what you believe is impossible. We hope you have got off to a good start with AppSheet...

Joining the AppSheet community to be a citizen developer

To be confident and competent in AppSheet to develop apps as you want, further and continuous study in AppSheet is inevitable. Please keep working on AppSheet to learn more.

You are possibly aware that there is an AppSheet community that has been up and running for years. As your next step, we encourage you to sign up with the community at https://www.googlecloudcommunity.com/gc/AppSheet/ct-p/appsheet.

The AppSheet community has been driving the growth of AppSheet and it always stays active. An uncountable number of problems have been solved, thanks to the contributions of the community members. The community is where you can ask questions to solve any issue you might have. In addition, the community platform is one of the AppSheet resources where you can apply a search to find out how to solve your issues. Skilled app creators share new ideas, tips, and tricks to apply advanced functionalities to your apps.

AppSheet is growing endlessly

AppSheet is growing every day. New functionalities and features, as well as the enhancement of the existing functions, are added to the platform all the time. The knowledge we have today about AppSheet would become out of date if we stopped continuing to learn.

Looking back at 2021 and 2022, we witnessed a series of new changes that enhanced the AppSheet capabilities and let app creators do more. For instance, there is now powerful integration with a series of Google Workspace products. AppSheet is a pure no-code platform, but it now controls another Google solution, Google Apps Script, which is a low-code service. Yes, it requires knowledge of coding, but, indeed, AppSheet has now made something possible that was previously believed impossible, in just a few years.

As of writing this book in late 2022, a number of new features, such as the new desktop UX and the new data connection to AppSheet’s database, are in play. They are expected to...

Summary

To end this book, we wish to emphasize on the most important thing in Appsheet.

“Enjoy learning and building apps with AppSheet!”

We hope you embark on the journey with us to become an active AppSheet citizen developer. Thank you for reading!