Understanding App Editor and Data Sources

With a Google account in hand, you are now ready to start building your first app. In this chapter, we will discuss the process of creating a new app from your own data and how to configure table and column settings. An AppSheet app is built from your own data sources, usually a Google Sheets or Excel spreadsheet. Therefore, the first step of building a new app is to prepare your data. Once the data is ready, you are fully ready to create a new app with AppSheet.

Once a new app is created, the whole development process will happen in the AppSheet editor. With this chapter, you will learn how your spreadsheet data should be organized so that it can be used as a data source with AppSheet. We often see cases where the app creator wrongly models data tables, which will cause a number of problems when you develop your apps. To avoid this problem, proper data modeling is important.

You will learn the basics of setting table and column configurations...