When I live test it on my phone, the app is crashing when it’s time for the location sensor block to come into play.
happened twice
The location sensor returns STRING values, but the Map needs NUMERIC values.
(I wish thunkable would fix this)
To solve the problem:
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Thanks very much for this😊 This is the first time I’m using either component, so I wasn’t aware of this.
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Hi!
The map is showing up now, but its location is San Francisco for some reason. Since that’s not where I am, could you please tell me what the issue might be? I added @drted’s suggestion of +0 blocks. That’s what made the map visible, but there’s no marker, and definitely the wrong location.
Thanks!
You have to set the map’s latitude and longitude before placing any markers:
See Maps by Google and Apple - ✕ Docs for more details about this.
I recommend always Googling [component] thunkable when starting to use a new component (e.g. map).
Without all your answers, I wouldn’t have progressed one bit in the app! Thanks to all the Thunkers!
You’re welcome.
Here’s a demo I just made to test this:
Thanks so much! This is working wonderfully!!
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Is there any way I can share the map in a SMS? Because the app needs to send the location as well.
And, the app allows you to take a photo of the dog, or upload one from your phone. When I try the app(live test), it send the file link instead of the image itself. I do know that there is a ‘share image’ option with the share component, but that only allows you to share it on Whatsapp. I’m looking for a SMS here.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
@codeswept
Are you trying to send the message to users of your app or non-users?
From users to non-users
I don’t have a lot of experience with Cloudinary but I believe you’d upload the images there and then share the url it generates:
I don’t know for pictures, I would use cloudinary. You can send a Google map url with the location
That’s probably a better idea. Just generate a valid Google Map url from the lat/lon info.
another design possiblity. It sound like your app is designed so that users who are concerned about animal tracking will download your app and share pictures of animals with their contacts who do NOT have your app. You might think about including a link to your app to recruit users who are concerned about the problem. That would allow friends of friend of friends of friends to communicate more effectively through your app. That would make up for some of the limitations of communicating outside of Thunkable.
Just a thought. I’m getting excited about seeing your app!
Yes, that’s true. The app is also supposed to send a SMS to an Animal Care center. Currently I have a default care center, but it would be better to find one near the user. I saw this tutorial by @darren, (Brewbase app) that finds the location , name, and website of nearby microbreweries, but I’m still not so sure on how to do it.
I’ve also never used Cloudinary, even after referring to the docs, but I think I’ll try that. When I tried to place ‘location’ block from location sensor, it seemed to be a number with lots of decimal places. For example, if I’d used the app when at, say, Disney world, it would have generated a number instead of ‘Disney World’. So I don’t really know how to generate the url, because I don’t understand the location number. And, yes, there is going to be a share app feature. Thanks for all the ideas, once again!
I’ll definitely give media-db a go. Will the media be accessible to all users of the app?