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Intro
Here, you can find all the details on building and deploying your App to your Yodeck Account.
Custom Apps are the standard way to customize your Yodeck Player. You can code your app using HTML5 and JavaScript or our Scripting Engine and provide customized entirely behavior. Specifically, custom Apps allow you to create your own small applications or automated online web pages and publish them as an App within a Yodeck Account. To do this, there are several options and technologies that you can use. Each has advantages and disadvantages; you should investigate which fits your case better.
⚠️Yodeck Account and Yodeck Player
To thoroughly test an App, you need a standard Yodeck Account and a fully working Yodeck Player (based on Raspberry Pi 3 or 4).
Options for Building a Custom App
Here is a quick list of all current options for developing a Custom App.
Web App
A Web App is based on an online web page (a URL) and uses our scripting engine to automate and modify that web page.
We already provide examples: Baremetrics, ChartMogul, Google Calendar, Google Analytics, and Instagram Apps. These Apps load up a web page from the respective service; they log in, then navigate to the selected page and show the data you need.
You can read more about Web Apps here.
HTML App
An HTML App is based on a ZIP package with HTML files you upload to Yodeck. This package is then unzipped inside Yodeck Players and is displayed locally.
You can read more about HTML Apps here.
Quick Comparison of Custom App Options
Each App type has its pros and cons.
| Status | Web App | HTML App |
|---|---|---|
| Internet Access | Required | Optional |
| Code | Yodeck Scripting Engine + Javascript (optionally) | HTML + Javascript |
| Difficulty | Easy and fast | Needs coding skills and time |
| Upload Required | No | Yes |
| Can access Filesystem and GPIO Pins | No | Yes |
| Cross-origin Requests | Restricted | Unrestricted |
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