We’re very excited to announce the new and improved My Apps home page which will be released soon! Based on customer research, we learned that users have trouble finding their apps, especially when the number of apps is large. Our goal with this redesign is to make it easier to find your apps and improve the overall performance of the page.
The new My Apps page enables you to:
Find apps using a more consistent interface, similar to Google Drive
Quickly access apps that are most recently modified, shared with you (with view or edit permissions), and owned by you
By default, you will see the apps that have been most recently modified, including those owned by or shared with you. Note the “Shared with me” section does not include the apps that have been shared with you as a user, only those with edit or view definition permissions.
Lastly, we’re consolidating the top navigation bar with the AppSheet Editor’s. This enables quick access to features such as signing out, whereas previously you had to go to the My Account page to do so.
We’d love to hear your feedback as you start seeing this new interface rollout. This enhancement will be rolled out gradually, starting next week with free users.
Change the UI however you want, if you need to mimic other Google Services, just pleasedon’t push us to use a G account. I just fear that someday we will end up needing a G account in order to use AppSheet, like any other Google Service (Youtube, Meet, Drive, etc)
It looks just like in DataStudio, the problem is that it is not possible to create folders or work areas if you have many applications it is difficult to find them quickly.
I suggest considering the creation of folders or something similar, so the applications could be better organized if there are many.
I have several clients, each with multiple apps, OR I might have multiple copies of the apps I am working on in various states OR I have many sample or test apps that I keep to reference. It would be extremely helpful to be able to group these apps together as I please to help declutter the list but organize it in a useful way that fits ME.
The idea of folders sounds good, or any kind of organization actually that can be customized, like using tags, colors, etc, so that we can then filter by them
Thanks for all your feedback everyone! Using tags to better organize apps is a great idea, folders get a little tricky with access management so tags might be more intuitive for sorting. We’ll definitely keep this in mind for our next iteration on this page!
Folders do not have to be physical storage locations. In this use case, they could be visual only.
Basically we just need a good way to group apps, allow for collapsing of the groups to declutter the page and then allow quick and easy access to the groups to find the app we need.
Just got the updated “My Apps” view today. While we have the row menu option to “Edit in new tab”, the default when clicking on the row is to open the app in the same window. Same when in the Grid View. The default in the old “My Apps” page was to open the app in a new window.
Is there an option to change the row selected behavior to “Edit in new tab”? If not, can that be included?
You should be able to sort by using the table headers while on “Owned by me” and “Shared with me”, the only one where sorting is disabled is “Most recent” since that gets sorted by Last Modified column.
Until we gain the full access to new UX, it is difficult to provide the proper feedbacks, but based on the screenshot, I came up with those.
Wordings of “Owned by me” | " Shared with me" could be confusing. Especially “Shared with me”. On the app gallery, we have item of "shared with me which means I was added as app users for those particular apps. On the app editor, I assum this “shraed with me” will mean “Shared with me as co-author”. I dont think the app which is shread with me (but not as co- author) will show up here. Or the apps shared with me (as normal user, no author right) will appear?
In terms of the order of menu, I do not know why “shared with me” come on top of “owned by me”. Not a big deal, but in the normal sense, Owned by me should come on top, as the existing UX does.
Good eye! We had previously recruited users here in the community to help test a new AppSheet database feature and what you saw is related to that; I’ve updated the screenshots to remove that toggle – it wasn’t meant to be there for this launch’s post
Thanks for your feedback. We wanted to make this change to be consistent with some other Google products like Datastudio and Google Sheets but we will consider adding an option like you mentioned to our feature list for the next iteration.
I also thought of the relationship between these expressions and what we see in our phones. I would like to suggest that “Owned by me” replace “Created by me” in our “App Galleries.” I just wrote a post for beginners about how to take a template and start using it on a phone: https://www.googlecloudcommunity.com/gc/Tips-Tricks/How-to-start-using-an-app-on-your-phone/m-p/461496
In doing so, it became necessary to explain that “Created by me” really means “Owned by me.” So, changing that to “Owned by me” would reduce confusion, I think.
