This appendix outlines the contents introduced in the process of building your first app and provides some links to more in-depth documentation. Return to this document any time you want to review the fundamentals of how to build in Airkit.

Airkit Studio

• The Studio
• The Builder Bar
• App Preview

When you first create an app, you'll be automatically taken to Journey Builder

In the Journey Builder, you can:

• Indicate how your Journey is triggered
• Define the Steps that make up the application's Journey
• Define what Web Flow each Step begins
  • If there are no Web Flows to select from, you can create a new one

To build or edit a Web Flow, navigate to Web Flows Builder

Web Flows Builder is where you can:

• Create and edit Web Flows
• Create and edit the Web Pages that make up the Web Flows
• Create and edit Web Controls on each Web Page.

Web Controls serve as small UI building blocks.

• Example Web Controls include:
  • Labels
  • Buttons
  • Input boxes
    • Input boxes can accept various various Data Types and store them as variables
    • (The four input boxes created for the purpose of our Contact Form accepted four instances of Text input, including one in the special form Email and one in the special form Phone)

The appearance of each Web Control is highly customizable.

• Modify them individually, under the "Style" section in the Inspector
• Make app-wide changes to Variants using Theme Builder.

Web Controls can be associated with Events and Actions.

• Events trigger Action Chains, which are a set of Actions taken sequentially.
• Actions dictate how your app will behave
  • Common Actions include:
    • Navigating to another Web Page
    • Performing a custom Data Flow
      • Custom Data Flows are created in the Connections Builder, see below

To store and structure data, use the AirData Builder

The AirData Builder is where you can define AirData App Objects

• Data in AirData App Objects can be stored and queried
• In order for the other Builders to have access to an AirData App Object, its definition must be saved and migrated

To use and modify data, use the Connections Builder

The Connections Builder is where you can: 

• Construct custom Data Flows out of component Data Operations
  • Data Flows connect the UI of your Airkit apps to other systems, be they part of Airkit (like AirData) or not (like Salesforce).

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