Application Building

You've come to the right place for everything related to designing and building CommCare applications!

Start with the Application Building Tutorial Series to get a feeling for the app building process. Then check out applications designed by other organizations and review best practices for designing effective and useful apps. Finally, get a list of key references and tools to keep on hand as you build out your CommCare application.

Introduction

• Terms and Concepts - the CommCare glossary
• CommCare Fundamentals

App Building Tutorials

• Application Building Tutorial Series

Core Information

• Form Builder - overview of the form designer, a tool you can use to create forms for CommCare
• Errors building an application - help in interpreting error messages while building applications
• Advanced Application Settings
• Manage Applications
  • Deploy and Install an Application on CommCare HQ
  • Copy or Delete an Application
    
• Design
  • CommCare Exchange - Starter Apps - a set of example applications, curated by Dimagi
  • Best practices in application building
  • CommCare for Low-literate Users
  • Application Design Overview and Open Source Specifications
  • General Workflow Suggestions
  • Application Review - a checklist of design and quality issues to make sure you've considered

• Language Support - how to manage multiple languages in your application
  
  • Language configuration (for Applications)
  • Form Bulk Translation (for forms)
  • User Interface Translation
  • Local Language Support and Fonts
  • Application Profiles

Multimedia in CommCare

• Images
• Audio
• Video
• Multimedia Validation

Advanced Resources

• Common Logic and Calculations
• CommCare Functions
• Lookup Tables
• Case Management
  
  • Overview
  • Configuring Cases in CommCareHQ
  • Case List and Case Detail Configuration
  • Transfer Cases Between Mobile Workers
  • Case Sharing
• Time Zone Settings
• Export Form Contents
• Configure Email Reports
• Workflow Support - best practices for common workflows
  • Referrals in CommCare
• Advanced Tools
  • CommCare Localization Tools (Ethiopian Calendar for CommCareODK)
• Multiple Choice Questions with Cases as Choices
• Use Excel to Build CommCare Forms
• Grid View for Form and Module Screens