Chapter 19
Building Custom Apps
IN THIS CHAPTER
Understanding the Lightning platform
Creating apps using the Lightning Experience App Manager
Exploring AppExchange apps for your company
What if you could modify your business applications in minutes to match the unique ways you manage your customer relationships? How much more productive could you be if you spent less time fighting your technology and more time with your customers?
The Lightning platform (formerly called the Force.com platform) includes several back-end “platform as a service” (PaaS) features, as well as the functionality you use to customize and create on-demand applications simply by pointing and clicking your mouse on easy-to-use web pages. In fact, with the Lightning platform, you can not only customize your existing Salesforce applications, but also build entirely new applications to fit the way you do business. If you need a little inspiration, you can also install a preexisting solution from the AppExchange directory (www.appexchange.com).
In this chapter, we demystify the Lightning platform and define some basic terms to give you a glimpse of the awesome power of creating custom apps. Then we discuss general ...
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