Thunkable Ranting

[domhnallohanlon]

Hey there, thanks for leaving your #feedback

We’ve actually written a number of posts on how to use blocks, functions and loops to create robust, dynamic apps.

Here are a few recent examples

Create Smarter Designs with the "Any Component" blocks

Here are three different layouts with lots of buttons: [20191031_115136] Conventional wisdom would have you believe that creating something like the designs below would be a time consuming and challenging process. If you wanted 9, 16 or 25 buttons then you’ll spend a lot of time messing around with rows and columns and sizes and paddings…right? [43] Wrong! All 3 of the designs shown above are created from just 1 button, 1 row and 1 column. By using the Any Component blocks you can create a…

Changing properties of cloned components (DIY Advanced Listviewer)

We’re working hard to bring you the Extended Listviewer component to make developing your app even faster, but in the meantime here’s a DIY approach. By using the “Any Component” blocks in Thunkable, you are able to clone entire rows or columns of content. But what if you then want to change some of the components within the row or column? [20190723_121430] Design Usually you can leave the precise details of your design until the end, but in this case you need to know what components will be…

Creating a Dynamic Dictionary and Quiz app

Originally published Oct 2019 Revised & Updated Feb 2022 One pitfall that often catches out new Thunkers is creating more screens in their projects than they need to. Two classic examples of this are the Dictionary app and the Quiz app. As a new user, it’s easy to think that if you need 1 screen for 1 question then you need 50 screens for 50 questions. The knock on effect of this approach is that any future updates become more time consuming. This is especially true of UI changes since you wil…

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Typically duplicating screens or components is a bad idea, and it’s much better (in the long run) to get your blocks to do this heavy lifting. That being said, we realise that for novice users this is an important feature and we’ve been working on adding it to the platform for quite a while now.

Once testing is completed we’ll be adding these abilities.

@chumpychumps24nok

We need the basic features you didn’t provide!

Aside from copy/pasting screens and components, is there anything else that falls under the heading of “basic features”?