32 terms, defined
The words you meet building and publishing an app without code — from prompt and API key to AAB and data-safety form — in one or two sentences each.
AI app builder
A no code app builder that generates an app from a natural-language description using AI, rather than from a visual canvas. See what is an AI app builder.
No code
Building software without writing code — by configuring, dragging or, increasingly, describing. The result is real software; the author just did not program it.
Low code
Tools that do most of the work visually but expect some code for custom parts. No-Code AI App Builder needs no code at any step, including the final build.
Prompt
The text you give the AI: your description of the app, or a request for a change. Good prompts name the screen, the change and the behaviour.
Agent
An AI that plans and uses tools over several steps — asking questions, building screens, editing — rather than answering once. No-Code AI App Builder's builder is an agent.
API key
A secret key that lets an app use your account on a service. No-Code AI App Builder uses your own OpenAI API key, kept only in your browser, so you pay OpenAI directly with 0% commission. See pricing.
App structure
The plan behind an app: its screens, tabs, name, colours and features. The builder decides it first; everything else follows from it.
Screen
One page of the app — a menu, a detail, a form. In No-Code AI App Builder each screen is built separately, which is what makes targeted edits possible.
Native shell
The real Android app (Kotlin, Jetpack Compose) that hosts the screens and provides the app bar, tabs, back stack, permissions and native features.
Bridge
The channel between a screen and the native shell: screens call it to navigate, request a photo, schedule a notification, and so on.
Capability
A native feature the app declares — camera, location, notifications, biometrics, barcode — bundling its permission and code. Built apps carry only the capabilities they use.
Permission
Android's consent mechanism for sensitive features. Generated apps request each one when the feature is first used, not at launch.
APK
Android Package — the installable file. Get your app builds one; share it directly or scan the QR code to install it.
AAB
Android App Bundle — the publishing format Google Play requires. Get your app builds one, signed and ready to upload.
Cloud build
Turning your app into an APK or AAB on a build server instead of your own computer. Takes about three minutes; included in Builder Pro.
Signing key / keystore
The cryptographic identity of your app. Every update must be signed with the same key. The builder creates one for your account; download a backup and keep it safe.
Play App Signing
Google's service that holds your app's final signing key so a lost upload key can be reset.
Play Console
The website where you create the listing, upload bundles, fill in the data-safety form and publish.
Closed testing
A private Play track. Personal developer accounts must run one with 12 testers for 14 days before their first production release.
Data safety form
Play's declaration of what an app collects and shares. Answer from the features you added and the app's actual behaviour.
Privacy policy
A public page describing what the app collects. Required by Play for almost every app, even one that collects nothing.
Target SDK
The Android version an app is built for. Play raises the minimum yearly; building a new AAB from the builder keeps up.
Local notification
A reminder or alert scheduled on the phone itself — no server. Used for reminders, timers and 'new post' alerts from cached data.
Push notification
A message sent from a server to phones instantly. Set up with Firebase or OneSignal in the builder's Push panel.
Biometric lock
Fingerprint or face authentication to open the app or a screen, falling back to the device PIN.
Deep link
A URL that opens a specific screen in an app — or opens another app, such as WhatsApp with a prepared message.
WebView
Android's built-in browser component. Website-to-app converters wrap a site in one; No-Code AI App Builder uses it inside a native shell to host generated screens.
Published sheet
A Google Sheet shared as a CSV URL that an app reads on launch — the simplest way to update content without an app update.
Backend
Server-side software: accounts, databases, payments, real-time features. Optional for most small apps; connect your own Supabase project when needed.
Supabase
An open-source backend platform — sign-in, a Postgres database, file storage. Connect it in the builder when an app needs accounts or shared data.
MVP
Minimum viable product — the smallest version that tests whether an idea works. Exactly what an AI builder produces in an evening.
Iteration
Refining a generated app through follow-up requests. One specific change per message, named screen, described behaviour.
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