Introduction

Colix AppStudio is your central hub for building and managing mobile apps. From here you can create applets, design pages, configure settings, and publish your content to iOS and Android apps.

Key Concepts

Before diving in, here are the core concepts you'll work with:

• Subscription — Your organization's workspace. Everything you create lives under a subscription.
• Applet — Where you build the actual app experience. In most cases, an applet contains the complete app: pages, menus, widgets, and functionality. You can also combine multiple applets in the same app if you want to split the experience into separate modules.
• App — A distribution channel for your applets. The app is how end users access the content — as a web app, iOS app, or Android app. The same applet can be published to multiple apps.
• Plugin — Adds specific functionality to an applet (forms, files, etc.).
• Widget — A UI component placed on a page within the design editor (text, images, menus, forms, etc.).

How It All Fits Together

Subscription
└── Applet (the actual app experience: pages, menus, widgets)
    ├── Pages (built with the design editor)
    │   └── Widgets (forms, text, images, menus, etc.)
    └── Plugins (forms, files, etc.)

App (distribution channel: web, iOS, Android)
└── publishes one or more applets

1. You create an applet and design its pages and menus using widgets.
2. You enable plugins to add functionality like forms or file uploads.
3. You create an app — web, iOS, or Android — and publish your applet to it.
4. Your users access the app through whichever channel suits them.

Next Steps

• Navigate AppStudio — Learn your way around the interface.
• Create Your First Applet — Get started with a step-by-step guide.