I would like to have thunkable search feature

[vattunuocdunghuyen6m]

I want the same search bar as shown in

the attached thunkable picture. But I couldn’t find it

[tatiang]

Where did this “thunkable picture” come from?

There isn’t a built-in search component, although there are plenty of ways to search using various blocks in Thunkable. It would be great to have.

Please submit this as a feature request: 📝 Bugs and Feature Requests - ✕ Docs

[codeswept]

This is NOT a component, and you have to design and style it yourself. If you want to know the code, check this out for formatting through a data table:

A small tutorial on adding search bars in your app

Hey Thunkers! Lots of people ask how to add search bars inside their projects. Today, I found out how to, and I thought I’d share it with you since search bars come in handy in lots of projects, and this is quite a common question. If you want a search bar, you most likely want it for sieving through Airtable records/ data from grid and list layouts. So, I’ll only be talking of a search bar with regards to tables. So, first add a row at the top of your app (this is possible anywhere but it’s b…

This is handy too:

Making a Search Bar

Note: This tutorial was updated in June 2020 to reflect the new when Text Input Changes block, which makes adding a search bar to your app much easier! This post will talk about creating a search bar for your app. Search Bars are great if you have a lot of text items or List Viewer options that you want to make available to the user without having a lot of items on the Screen at once. This post will describe how to make a search bar with a search button and a search bar that updates automatic…

It is quite complicated. By the way, is that an image of your contacts page of an app in Thunkable?

[muneer]

The contact picker was available in the classic version or at least this is what I understand and the ability to build extensions in the classic app makes such tools easy to get.

The X version however does not have the extension support thus we would have to wait for Thunkable to make it available as a component.

[vattunuocdunghuyen6m]

Thanks very much @tatiang

[vattunuocdunghuyen6m]

Thanks very much @codeswept.

I have done it. But when searching I want to just type the first letter and the list will show results with the same first letter. So is there any way?

[codeswept]

You can use the 'when text input changes block. If you only want the first letter, replace the does contain with in text get #1.