You create basic apps from one MashZone NextGen mashup or mashable using one or more views that have been created for that mashup or mashable. Based on their views, basic apps can be used in desktop or mobile destinations. See Create a Basic App for instructions.

In most cases, basic apps display information in fairly common views such as a table, maps or charts. For apps with multiple views, events in one view also update the other views. For example, selecting a row in a table may highlight the corresponding point on a map. Basic apps can also be added to workspaces in Mashboard.

You can also collect apps into workspaces with a particular focus or simply organize apps in a useful way. Workspaces contain one or more apps organized in a particular layout, such as a grid or separate tabs. Workspaces can also contain gadgets which wrap apps or other content from external sites such as videos or other types of media in your organization.

You can also wire interactions between apps in workspaces so that they work together, as a composition.

You create workspaces in Mashboard. See Create Workspace Apps with Mashboard for more information.

Workspaces are also apps. You can publish workspaces and then find or use them in the AppDepot, the MashZone NextGen Mobile apps or other destinations, just as you do with individual apps.

MashZone NextGen developers or administrators can also create custom apps that use MashZone NextGen mashups or mashables in custom or more complex views. They can start from basic apps and then extend them for a customized look or feel. Or they can create custom apps from scratch.

Common examples of custom apps include apps that require additional interaction, such as forms, or mashup/mashable responses that need a unique or custom look and feel.

For custom apps based on a basic app, developers create a basic app and then extend it in the App Editor.

For fully custom apps, developers start in the App Editor.