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Create a Mobile App from Google Sheets Without Code

Glide start-up story. How without code and programming skills create a real mobile app from scratch

Source: glideapps.com

I recently found a great tool that allows me to quickly create a universal mobile application and edit it — just using data from a spreadsheet.

Service Glide developed ex-Microsoft employees who want to simultaneously simplify the development of mobile applications and interact with spreadsheets.

All the user needs to do to create an application is to select a Google spreadsheet from their account or create a new one from the set of Glide templates, and then edit the appearance of the resulting application, writes Fast Company.

We thought: is it possible to simplify the entire development process? Create an app, add data to it, improve it, and share it? We want to make it easier not for programmers to create applications, but for everyone.

David Siegel, Glide head

Through the web version of Glide, you can completely customize any element of the application so that it looks and works the…