[Solved] Can I use a column to show/hide content in my app?

[domhnallohanlon]

@kushweez

it’s not recommended to have more than 10.

That was a limitation of our Android-only Classic platform. The current, cross-platform version of Thunkable has no such limitation, you’re free to have as many screens as you want.

From a maintenance perspective though, you probably don’t want 30 screens since it makes updates unnecessarily time consuming.

How about taking a more dynamic, data-drive approach such as this:

Create multiple "Categories" in your app with just 1 Screen

In this tutorial we will look at how to dynamically add content to a screen in Thunkable. Take a look at the template here: Thunkable Intro This app looks like it might have 6 screens, but in reality it has only 2. There is 1 screen for the menu and then 1 “template” screen that we dynamically update depending on what button is pressed. [Screenshot 2020-10-19 at 19.03.40] Design In this app all the settings are defined in the blocks. This is really useful if you want to resize several compo…

There are only 2 screens in this app (1 for content and 1 for the menu) but from the users perspective there are 6 screens. Similarly, this “A - Z of Thunkable” app uses the same approach to condense 30+ screens of content into just 3:

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…

Would something like this work in your scenario?