App Builder

Name: App Builder by Infragistics
Price: 1295 USD
Rating: 7 (5 reviews)

Score7 out of 10

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What is App Builder?

App Builder - Design and Build Real Apps Fast

The brand-new App Builder aims to provide design and development teams with a solution to help them deliver apps quickly and efficiently, without losing focus on UX.

Users can start an app from scratch or choose from a library of pre-built app templates or responsive screen layouts and then customize with a toolbox of 60+ UI controls to kick-start the next digital product design. If a design already exists in Sketch or Adobe XD, the user can import designs from the design system into a real, component-based app.

Everything designed results in production-ready HTML, TypeScript & CSS for Angular and Razor and SCSS for Blazor (with React and Web Components coming soon). Users can see it in real-time as you create, or download a complete zip file of the app.

Categories & Use Cases

Media

Screenshot of Use pre-built themes and typography (Material, Bootstrap & Fluent) or customize to match your own app theme and corporate branding on a per-control, per-screen, or per-app basis.

Screenshot of With a rich layout system and complete toolbox of components, create screens and full apps in minutes instead of hours!

Screenshot of Import Sketch and Adobe XD Designs! With one click, take your static designs and get interactive, responsive apps with real UI components and styling. Import designs from the design system into a real, component-based app. Figma import coming soon!

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Screenshot of Use pre-built themes and typography (Material, Bootstrap & Fluent) or customize to match your own app theme and corporate branding on a per-control, per-screen, or per-app basis.

Drag-and-drop Interfaces
Drag-and-drop interface for building applications
Category average: 8.4
Visual Modeling
Visual modeling tooling allows business users to design processes visually.
Category average: 7.7
Reusability
An internal repository where assets, modules, and even entire applications can be reused
Category average: 8.6

Platform Scalability
Apps developed by low-code platform must be scalable and capable of supporting large numbers of users
Category average: 8.7

Alejandro Castrejon

Consultant in Information Technology at smartfactura (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have experience in SAP ABAP, winform and Xamarin (android, ios) development but almost nothing in web development so App Builder its a great tool to design and generate the code of the web application in Blazor so we only has to write the code behind, special routines and api to interface data.

Pros

Desing
Generate code
Several platforms

Cons

Data interface (web services)
Documentation

Most Important Features

Design by drag and drop
Code generation

Return on Investment

its positive the short learning curve on web development
its expensive, maybe should sell by month subscription

Other Software Used

Microsoft Visual Studio, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server

Maurizio Bilotta

Senior Software Engineer in Engineering at NTT DATA Italy (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I've used App Builder in order to test it and consider if it fits our company goals. Overall, my experience was positive but I believe there is still room for improvement. I did not recommend an investment but I strongly suggested my company keep an eye on its future developments.

Pros

WYSIWYG editor
Code generation with Angular
Theme and styles

Cons

Can't edit the code inside AppBuilder
Can't import existing code into AppBuilder
Can't generate forms from (say) JSON schema or other model definitions

Most Important Features

WYSIWYG editor
Code generation

matt vaughn

Angular Architect in Engineering at Turncommerce (51-200 employees employees)

Pros

Layout
Theme and Styles
Code Generation

Cons

The plugin for Visual Studio Code had a bug/defect - no support for Nx Workspace
Assumed support for angular.json files only - hardcoded into the tool

Most Important Features

design assets turnover to developers
consistent styles and themes
code generation

Return on Investment

+ Allowed for fast design and mock ups
+ Allowed for efficient asset delivery to development team
+ allows for revisions and updates; with code generation

Other Software Used

Microsoft Visual Studio Code, Cypress.io, Lucidchart

Giovanni Baldo

in Information Technology at Devlink (1-10 employees employees)

Pros

Good design very similar to final result.
Interaction with clients.
Notes and comments on project.

Cons

Code generation to flutter.
Grids with "row layout" as in infragistics wingrid.

Most Important Features

Fast design.
Web interaction with clients.
Different versions of the same form (good to show interactions).

Return on Investment

I can't evaluate this.

Alternatives Considered

Balsamiq

Other Software Used

Android Studio, Visual Studio IDE, Microsoft SQL Server

Verified User

Engineer in Engineering (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Potentially, great product for cutting Blazor UI development time down to hours instead of days or weeks.
The app also allows for rapid prototyping which eliminates the need for code rewrites.
My guess is that in the next 6-9 months the Blazor product will be stable enough and contain the necessary features to implement this in a production environment.