Introduction to Adalo

An introduction to the Adalo app maker website, showing the 3 key features that are needed to build an app: screens, components and collections.

Unit 1

Lesson 3 – Building Blocks: Collections

In this lesson you will create a database page that users can add information about restaurants to.

Now that we have multiple screens in our app, we will build a simple app where users can add items that they want to remember. For our example, we will make an app to keep track of restaurants that you visit. You can decide to do something different instead, for example sports, crafting ideas, books, movies or places for activities.

To keep track of restaurants, we need to create a place in the app database to store information about each restaurant. Click on Database in the left menu, then “Add To Database”. Click “Add Collection”, then type in the name for that collection. We want to add Restaurants, so we’ll Type “Restaurants”. If you are adding Sports, type that instead.

When you have created your Collection, it will have one default property: Name. We want to add more Restaurant properties that we can display. Click the “Add Property” button, then click the Image button. Give the property a name - we will call it “Photo of food”. This means that each restaurant you add will have a name, and an image.

Now add a text property, a date property and a number property. Call the text property “Notes”, the date property “Date visited” and the number property “Rating”. This means you will be able to add notes, a date and a rating to each restaurant.

The last detail is to create a relationship between Restaurants and Users, so that Adalo knows how they can be used. Click “Add Property” again, then click on Relationship > Users.

A popup window will show 3 options for the relationship between Users and Restaurants. Select the top option - one User, multiple Activities.

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