Build an Internal App Without Learning Mobile App Dev

Mobile apps to help your team track & manage internal processes are extremely helpful, but what if you don't have any mobile devs on staff? Kevin Whinnery will teach us how to build a custom internal app using Retool — no mobile dev expertise required. Repo: https://gist.github.com/kwhinnery/35bbfe49cde064b0ba5b91c171e44a0f Links & Resources: - https://retool.com/mobile - https://twitter.com/kevinwhinnery - https://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/api/books - https://www.learnwithjason.dev/schedule Watch future episodes live at https://twitch.tv/jlengstorf This episode was sponsored by: - Netlify (https://lwj.dev/netlify) - Nx (https://lwj.dev/nx) - Backlight (https://lwj.dev/backlight) - Pluralsight (https://lwj.dev/pluralsight) Live transcription by White Coat Captioning (https://whitecoatcaptioning.com/) Chapters: 00:00:00 - Welcome 00:01:07 - Who is Kevin Whinnery? 00:04:24 - What is an internal app? 00:09:54 - Why use Retool? 00:13:14 - Who is the target audience for Retool? 00:15:07 - What are we building with Retool in this video? 00:19:05 - Building apps for the phone without using the app store 00:36:21 - Writing your SQL query 00:43:28 - Customizing the mobile app vs the web app 00:52:58 - Connecting the button to the action 00:54:53 - Transforming data returned from the API 01:07:47 - Adding refresh 01:08:41 - Scanning a ISBN with the camera 01:18:29 - Deleting a book 01:25:30 - Where can people learn more about Retool? 01:27:04 - Can you publish this to the App Store as a stand-alone app?