# How to live update/ add images to app **URL:** \ **Category:** Questions about Thunkable X\ **Created:** [August 22, 2024, 10:28pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-live-update-add-images-to-app/3154346 "2024-08-22T22:28:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jake-cohen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecd19e/32.png) [@jake-cohen](https://community.thunkable.com/u/jake-cohen)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2024, 10:28pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-live-update-add-images-to-app/3154346/1 "2024-08-22T22:28:56Z")
Hi I want to make like an announcements section in my app that I am making for my school. Some of the announcements may include images or flyers. How do I add this functionality - to add images to the app one it is already published? I know about cloudinary just don’t know how to do it. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_conroy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/matt_conroy/32/150843_2.png) [@matt\_conroy](https://community.thunkable.com/u/matt_conroy)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2024, 1:18pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-live-update-add-images-to-app/3154346/2 "2024-08-23T13:18:35Z")
Hi @jake-cohen, you can learn more about uploading files to Cloudinary [here](https://docs.thunkable.com/getting-started/sample-apps-and-tutorials/video-tutorials/files/cloudinary/store-and-access-cloudinary-files-in-your-thunkable-app) in this video tutorial. If you are wanting to use the files uploaded to cloudinary in your project, you can use the URL from Cloudinary. ![Screenshot 2024-08-23 at 9.17.45 AM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/3/8/384f50864db453e9ff4efcc644125fadc2d1ada9.png) ---
**Author:** ![jake-cohen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecd19e/32.png) [@jake-cohen](https://community.thunkable.com/u/jake-cohen)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2024, 1:31pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-live-update-add-images-to-app/3154346/3 "2024-08-23T13:31:48Z")
Ok but my point is that I will be uploading a lot of pictures to Cloudinary from Cloudinary not from thinkable. I don’t want to manually re publish/update the app like from the App Store every time I add a new picture. I just want every picture to show. Think of it like a Google sheet data source being used in a data viewer. If there is an easier way to do this like not in Cloudinary let me know please. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_conroy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/matt_conroy/32/150843_2.png) [@matt\_conroy](https://community.thunkable.com/u/matt_conroy)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2024, 1:42pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-live-update-add-images-to-app/3154346/4 "2024-08-23T13:42:43Z")
This is possible. You could use a data source like [Google Sheets](https://docs.thunkable.com/getting-started/data-sources/data-sources) and have the URLs for each image in one of the columns. If you are creating a data viewer, the image in there can be populated with the image URL. > **[Read Data in a Thunkable Data Source | Thunkable Docs](https://docs.thunkable.com/getting-started/sample-apps-and-tutorials/video-tutorials/data-source-tutorials/read-data-in-a-thunkable-data-source)** > > In this tutorial, we’ll demonstrate how to read data in a connected data source such as Google Sheets, Airtable, Webflow, or a local table. ---
**Author:** ![jake-cohen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecd19e/32.png) [@jake-cohen](https://community.thunkable.com/u/jake-cohen)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2024, 2:26pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-live-update-add-images-to-app/3154346/5 "2024-08-23T14:26:08Z")
how do i add a URL for an image to google sheets? i can only figure out how to add the image and that doesn’t show in thinkable - I am on a mac and the images will be from finder ---
**Author:** ![matt\_conroy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/matt_conroy/32/150843_2.png) [@matt\_conroy](https://community.thunkable.com/u/matt_conroy)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2024, 2:42pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-live-update-add-images-to-app/3154346/6 "2024-08-23T14:42:37Z")
That is where you would need to upload the images from your computer to Cloudinary. The data source would need a specific URL that ends in the file extension of the image (.jpg, .png, etc.) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/0/f/0f59f292712368bce16ff80133ae10de8a6f27e8.png) [@system](https://community.thunkable.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2024, 2:43pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-live-update-add-images-to-app/3154346/7 "2024-11-21T14:43:02Z")
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