I’m not sure if you guys understand my title, but here is what I need.
I’m basically saying on how can I let users share what they have written to other user that use the app. Like for example sharing an idea to all the app users etc.
Please help guys.
Thanks.
Basically you want to implement something like a chat app. This means you need to use a common data source such as Firebase and monitor a certain bucket in Firebase that stores user’s typed data.
Once any new data is saved, you will show it in the app to other users.
What do you mean by this?
You can see the blocks for this in the Realtime DB documentation:
Thanks for the info @tatiang, but when I look into my components tab, I can’t see Realtime DB. I think this is only for the Snap to Place. I am using the Drag and Drop. What can I use instead of the Realtime DB for Drag and Drop?
I don’t think the Drag & Drop interface has a listening block. I mean, it has this one for variables but I don’t think you can use it with Firebase:
You would have to use the Snap to Place interface.
Thanks a lot @tatiang, I guess I’ll find another solution
Hi @ant_1
You can use DnD to simulate a chat box.
You need to connect your project with a Firebase database by supplying API Keys and Database URL and then do something like this
The database key will be created automatically if not available.
If you start this very simple project from your computer and from your mobile at the same time you will see whatever you type in your computer will show in the mobile and vise versa.
https://x.thunkable.com/projectPage/61d18b1cff08e90011a5e6b9
Thanks a lot @muneer.
Hi @muneer,
I’m having trouble trying to put the cloud variable into the list viewer.
Here is some images of the code:
Thanks.
Hey @ant_1
In your example, your blocks are trying to set a component that expects and array of strings to a single string. This wont work. The listViewers always expect an array/list of items, even when there’s only 1 item, it should still be applied in the form of an array.
Thanks @jared
@jared, am I supposed to do it like this?
Can you tell me what is available in cloud variable shareIdeas?
Is it containing a list?
Or is it just a single text item?
It is just containing a single text item @muneer.
So your List Viewer will only show one single item and every time you update the Text Input and saved it back to the database you will be overwriting the existing data.
Is this what you want?
I want to add text to the list viewer, not replace?
Could you fix this?
See this example.
https://x.thunkable.com/projectPage/619b26462a8c5200388b8f38
Cool! Thanks again @muneer!
Though how do I do it with variables?
