My First Glide App: Build Apps Without Code

In this lesson, we’ll dive into Glide, a powerful no-code platform that allows you to transform your spreadsheets into fully functional apps. You'll understand the core features and how Glide can simplify app development, even without coding skills.

Key Takeaways:

• No-code platform: Learn how Glide enables you to turn data into apps without writing a single line of code.

• Pricing options: Get familiar with Glide’s free and paid plans, designed for both individuals and businesses.

• Real-world examples: Explore practical applications like creating custom apps for agencies, analyzing AI competitors, and managing inventory.

By the end of this lesson, you’ll know how to harness the power of Glide to build apps quickly and efficiently, no matter your technical background.

In this lesson, we’ll guide you through the process of building a detailed specification for your system. You'll learn how to identify the essential components and structure needed for your app, ensuring it meets your goals and user needs.

Key Takeaways:

• Building a System Specification: Learn how to create a comprehensive blueprint for your app.

• Defining Features & Requirements: Understand how to outline the necessary features and functionalities.

• Organizing App Structure: Learn how to organize your app’s structure to support business processes efficiently.

By the end of this lesson, you'll have a clear, actionable system specification ready to guide you through the development of your app.

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to build a solid database structure for your app using Google Sheets. We’ll start by organizing your data, then show you how to integrate it smoothly with Glide.

Key Takeaways:

• Quick Build in Google Sheets: Structure your data in Google Sheets for easy integration with Glide.

• Building Tabs According to Pages: Organize your data into tabs that align with the pages in your app specification.

• Import the File into Glide: Learn how to seamlessly import your Google Sheets file into Glide to begin building your app.

By the end of this lesson, you’ll have a properly structured database ready to integrate with your Glide app and start the building process.

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to enhance your app’s functionality by adding essential operations to your data. We’ll cover linking data between tabs, performing calculations, automating messages, and implementing conditional data changes.

Key Takeaways:

• Linking Between Tabs: Connect different data sets to cross-reference information across tabs.

• Mathematical Operations: Perform calculations such as summation, counting, and more to manipulate your data.

• Message Templates: Create and automate message templates for consistent communication.

• Conditional Data Changes: Adjust data dynamically based on specific conditions or prerequisites.

By the end of this lesson, you’ll be able to create dynamic, data-driven features that enhance your app’s functionality.

In this lesson, we will learn how to set up a completely new project with no need for a pre-prepared database.

Glide does the work for us and gives us a basic pattern that we can edit, change and add components to it.

In this lesson, we will see how to delete all the information that is irrelevant to us and start from scratch.

No programming or previous knowledge is required!

Let's go (:

In this lesson, we will learn all the possibilities that a free plan on Glide can give us. There are many of them, and this lesson might be a bit long but it is very important to understand all the futures that we have and how can we use them.

In this lesson, we will prepare as much as possible our database, the "under the hood" functionality. Glide already has many different functions, and we don't need to create any new ones. I will show some of the most used functions there are there, but as Glide adds more and more functions of them, you will need to learn yourself by testing and experiencing them.

In this lesson, we will start touching the construction screen. We will learn how to set up new pages, add components and navigate the construction screen in general. The user experience is the heart of the app, so it is very important to make it easier for our users even if it is ourselves. To do this, use as clear words as possible, and lower the user's clicks as much as possible.

So how can we add new items to our app, or better yet, let our users add new items? Well, in Glide, there are two ways to do that. One way is by a + sign in a list format and the other is by a button in a "details screen" format. I will show you both (:

So now we have reached complex Galid capabilities, which are customized actions. Such actions can be produced for any component that we have the option of adding "action" like a picture, buttons, and lists. Understanding complex actions can make your app incredible!

When we build an app one of our goals is to make our user's life easy. So how can we reduce their time and effort? Counting items can be exhausting and confusing when it comes to high numbers, so why not do this process for automatic? In this lesson, I will show you how you can make Glide count items under the same category.

Navigation

In this lesson, we will learn how to produce accessible and convenient navigation without the need for "back" which will allow the user to constantly move forward. One of the factors of users getting bored or not using any platform is bad navigation. We want to produce a situation where our user is constantly moving forward, continually having another button to drive and another world he can discover.

Progress bar

When we have any destination that depends on numbers, such as tasks, sales, and more, we often want to know where we are standing and how much more is left. A progress bar is one of my favorite components and can be used for many needs.

Personal area for users

When it comes to an app with multiple users, it is essential to give them a personal area. One that they can collect their information in one place with easy access. In addition, if it is a social app or "social network", we want to give other users to watch their information just like Facebook or any other platform.

Posting the app

Mazel Tov! This is the last lesson for the course, it's time for us to post the app and start using it. Also, you can find a link to copy the app to your account when you can compare what you built compared to what I built so you can make sure you did everything right. I wish you a lot of success down the road, and you are invited to follow the social networks for other updates on Glide.