AppSheet enables citizen developers, from IT to line-of-business users, to create and customize applications using its easy-to-use, interactive UI. Finally, for data collection, the company is recommending Google Forms as a replacement, noting that it has many new features that weren’t available at the time of App Maker’s launch.AppSheet is a powerful no-code application development platform. App Engine applications can be built on top of the existing Cloud SQL database tied to a user’s App Maker app. It’s a fully managed platform that can build and deploy Google Cloud Platform (GCP) apps. On the other hand, App Engine is recommended by Google as a replacement of App Maker as an app building tool. AppSheet was acquired by Google two weeks ago, and as it supports Cloud SQL databases (App Maker data is also stored in Cloud SQL), it allows users to build an application on the existing database tied to their App Maker app. Google recommends AppSheet as a replacement to automate complex business procedures.
Google also states that because of the specific source code used for App Maker, users can’t directly migrate their apps to another platform, which probably won’t make the low amount of App Maker users happy.
It seems that GSuite users didn’t embrace the service, however, which has led to the expected result of it being shut down. Google’s argument was that enterprises shouldn’t have to worry about code to build apps for internal use. After a preview announcement in 2016, it was launched as a stable release in 2018. It could be used to build internal tools. App Maker was a tool that let enterprises build applications without writing much code, thanks to templates and a drag-and-drop feature for UI elements. GSuite users pay for productivity and storage solutions, and Google makes several GSuite-only services, such as the enterprise-oriented Hangouts Chat and Hangouts Meet. Google App Maker was announced in December 2016 for GSuite users.
Now, it has announced that Google App Maker, a GSuite service for enterprise users, will shut down on January 19, 2021. The company is particularly pedantic when it comes to shutting down its services if it sees that their usage is not as high as it should be.
The list of the Google graveyard is long: Google Reader, Inbox, Google+, Talk, Hangouts, Allo, Picasa… and it goes on and on. By now, it should come as no surprise to learn that Google is shutting down one of its own services.
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