- [Narrator] Hello, this is Eddie from AppSheet,
here to help you create a free app
without code in just a couple minutes.
Now before we get started,
I want to explain three common types of app builders.
We have code driven platforms.
Some of them are more complex than others,
but all rely on foundational code.
We also have drag and drop type builders,
which are simply platforms that allow small businesses
to drag and drop a couple pieces and parts
to create a working app for grocery store
or a barber, things like that.
And we also have AppSheet,
which is what we call a data driven platform.
So how AppSheet works is it connects to your data
to allow you to customize your app
to then deploy your app to your users.
So we can use data sources like Google Sheets and Forms,
Excel and office 365, Dropbox and OneDrive,
Salesforce, Smartsheets, Sequel and more.
Now there are a couple of reasons why AppSheet's
data driven model might be right for you.
The first is that if you're dealing with larger data sets,
AppSheet allows you to have the functionality
of a cloud based spreadsheet or database,
while still having the portability of a mobile app.
AppSheet's also platform agnostic,
which means that you can enter in data
from any number of sources and connect it
through the same platform onto a single or multiple apps.
And because all the data is backed up
onto your pre existing cloud,
there are no data silos with AppSheet.
Currently, the AppSheet platform is in use by
leading fortune 500 manufacturers like Husqvarna, Solvay,
leading utility companies, construction companies,
government entities, as well as educational institutions
like Harvard, UCLA, Dartmouth,
University of Michigan, and many public schools.
But from here, let's get started building our first app.
To do so, let's head over to Google Sheets.
So pull up our drive.
Let's open a new sheet,
and let's go ahead and call this Inventory Management.
Now I'm gonna go ahead and label the first row.
Now what AppSheet does it takes your first row of data
and it uses the in the logic of the app
to understand which fields are important,
and from here, we can also add in our data.
I'm gonna go ahead and copy and paste this
to make a little quicker, and now we have our data.
You can see that we have some common items
from a grocery store,
we have direct URL links to images,
we have the available quantity,
the last time we checked the inventory quantity,
we have the unit price,
we have the inventory value,
we have the order quantity, and we have the barcode.
And the inventory value is simply the unit price
multiplied by what is currently available.
So once we have our date in place,
we can jump over to AppSheet.
And let's go ahead, if it's your first time here,
you can go ahead and start for free.
It'll take you through a couple prompts to login.
For me I'm already logged in.
And I'm going to go ahead and make
a new mobile app starting with my own data.
And we're gonna call this Grocery Inventory.
And we will select our data from Google.
Let's go ahead and search for Inventory Management.
We found our spreadsheet.
And there you have it, AppSheet has basically taken
our very simple spreadsheet with six rows,
and turn that into a functional app with a couple of items.
We can dive into the app,
we can play around, we can edit the values.
One thing to note is that whatever we edit
inside here is reflected in the spreadsheet,
for instance, if we change the unit price of avocado
from $1 to $1.50, and we save it and we sync this,
then we should see that reflected
right here in the spreadsheet as well.
And likewise, any change reflected in the spreadsheet
is added into the AppSheet app.
The data can also sync offline so that if you're in a place
where you don't have internet access,
you can simply sync at a place where you do have access,
or the app will automatically sync itself
as well at periodic intervals.
So to give you just a taste
of what you can do to build out an AppSheet app,
we are going to run through a couple of quick sections,
and keep in mind, this is a really basic overview.
But let's get started.
Here we are in the Data tab,
and here we have our Inventory Management spreadsheet,
we can choose to allow adds and deletes,
which is to say that you can now
add different stock keeping units or delete them.
We could also change our column definitions,
AppSheet automatically detects what each of these are,
but it doesn't always get it right,
so if it doesn't, we can go ahead and fix them in here.
We also have slices, so we can go ahead and make a slice.
A slice is a subset of a larger data set.
So we're gonna call this Out of Stock,
and we're gonna say that whenever
the column available is equal to zero,
then it is going to fall under the category of Out of Stock.
Now we can also head over to our UX tab.
In our UX tab we can see that we have these various views,
we can choose to sort them in different ways,
we could change this from a deck view to a table view
if we wanted to see all the data at once,
but I actually prefer the deck view cause we get the images.
If you're using other data types,
a map or chart or even a calendar might be helpful
but for now, a deck view is gonna be
what's most helpful for us.
We could also sort our data and group our data.
And let's go ahead and group our data by category.
Now we can see that we have groceries,
personal hygiene and pharmacy separated by category.
Let's also go ahead and we can change
our second view right here, and let's make it a form view.
Now what this does, it gives us the capacity
to add any new stock keeping unit however we would want.
And let's go ahead and rename our form view,
New SKU, for stock keeping unit.
We could also go ahead and add a simple image for this.
How about a soccer ball?
Now you see we have a simple app with two views.
We could have up to five views along the bottom
and we could also create a set of views
to put in the menu section.
So for now, we'll keep two views
since this is a really simple app, but bear in mind,
if you're using a data source with a lot more data,
or you're using multiple data sources,
or you're trying to make use of
various complex features of functionality,
you will definitely want to use more than two views.
We can also add our own custom branding
in the brand section, we could create formatting rules,
for instance, whenever availability is at zero,
we might highlight that in red to make us extra aware.
In the behavior section, we'd also add
a new action and we'll say, add order quantity.
And we could say for what is available,
let us have ordered quantity plus available.
The value of column order quantity
plus the volume of column available.
And we'll go ahead and save that.
And what this is essentially saying is that,
for avocados which have 70 available,
whenever we hit that action order quantity,
it will add 50 to it.
So if we are in the app, and we're on the go,
we can go ahead and hit Add Order Quantity,
and that will be reflected to 120, 120.
We could also create simple workflows,
for instance, if we want a workflow
for a low inventory warning,
we can do so and we could say,
when there is any change
and the order quantity is less than 25,
then let's go ahead and email storemanager@appsheet.com.
We could also create simple reports.
Let's have this be a weekly report,
and we could say that on any weekly basis,
on Monday at noon,
let's go ahead for this table,
we will send an email to gm@appsheet.com.
From here, let's take a look at our security tab.
We can see that we have a required sign in through Google.
We could also change this to be a public app
or get signed in through other authentication providers.
We also have an intelligence tab,
where we can have a smarter system
which allows us to use voice commands on the go.
And so once we're done customizing our app,
we can head over to deployment.
Going to Not Deployed,
and this will automatically run our deployment check
and says we're good to go despite a few warnings
about not having a description,
and we will go ahead and move our app to a deployed state.
And once our app is now deployed,
we can head over to our email
and we will see that here is our grocery inventory app.
If this is on our phone, we could go ahead and install it,
and it would show up as a app icon or tablet,
but for now lets stick with the browser view.
You can see that we have a functioning app
in our desktop browser.
And if we wanted to share this app,
we can go ahead and go to share app,
and we could find all our co-workers,
or we could simply use an entire app domain.
So that, in just a couple of minutes,
is how you build an app with the AppSheet platform.
Keep in mind that we have just barely scratched the surface
of all the features and functionalities
of what this platform is capable of.
Feel free to check out our channel for more examples
with the kinds of things you can do,
or you can head over to Sample Apps
and discover all kinds of examples of existing apps
sorted by industry, function, and feature set.
So thank you so much for watching,
and we look forward to hearing from you
in our YouTube comments section
or over at community.appsheet.com.