🎨 WDC #8 Can you re-create Victoria's Quote Gallery using Google Sheets?

[domhnallohanlon]

@tatiang

Great to see you participating

That @tatiang!

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@catsarisky

I don’t follow directions well

Love it @catsarisky this is great - love the black and white colour schemes and the ornamentation (fleuron) gives it a bit of extra elegance!

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@codeswept

It’s a Book Suggestion App

Oh wow this is amazing - great features (and great recommendations!) Thanks for the great entry @codeswept

[catsarisky]

I decided that what we needed was a mash-up of WDC #7 and #8. So… I present WDC #7.5: Thunkable

It could use some work in the style department, but the code behind it works.

[codeswept]

Thank you!

[codeswept]

This is absolutely amazing @catsarisky ! A great idea, and I love the UI! #WDC7.5(do you have a name for it?) is truly an awesome mix of both the WDCs. I just loved it!

[catsarisky]

Aw, thanks. “Says who?” is my working title.

[catsarisky]

Looks great, @codeswept ! Your app reminds me that I really need to figure out custom data viewers. Every time I’ve tried to make one, most of the formatting I’ve done has seemed to disappear…

[codeswept]

Thanks!

Custom data viewers are really easy to make, though… In fact, my favorite component in Thunkable is the DVL.

I’ve updated my original post to include Screenshots, What I’m working on, Features, LKnown Bugs, and Notes.

[eko.devs.apploroceo]

nice cool

[codeswept]

Thanks!

[domhnallohanlon]

Ok - I could actually spend all week on this but have to stop myself at some stage (if anyone else is working on an app please submit yours too, we’d really like to see what you have so far)

I’ve got categories, quote of the day, something resembling a colour scheme (but no uploading!)

Here’s the project page to try it out an remix if for yourself.

https://x.thunkable.com/projectPage/606088035466090012f4c8bb

[codeswept]

Great one @domhnallohanlon ! I like the UI and the QUOTE OF THE DAY idea… But the categories row doesn’t scroll on the web(I viewed it on my laptop). Otherwise, it’s an amazing app!

[domhnallohanlon]

@codeswept

But the categories row doesn’t scroll on the web

oops - I should’ve flagged that as a “known bug” - thanks @codeswept it actually doesn’t scroll at all (on any platform), but I can resize the buttons and fix that pretty quickly.

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I’ve done a very short write-up on my thoughts and experiences building this app, not everything went to plan, I didn’t get quite as much done as I would have liked to, and the whole thing was almost entirely derailed by feature creep but all-in-all it was actually great fun and I would recommend that anyone have a go at the #wdc in the future!

Quote Gallery with Google Spreadsheet

Background This project was created as part of #wdc 8. The challenge was to re-create an app that was powered by a Google Spreadsheet. I approached the problem by first getting as much of the required functionality as I could in place and then looked for some nice designs that I could use to improve the overall aesthetics of the app. [quotes_app] Steps The inspiration for the functionality of this app came from Victoria’s tutorial here on Hashnode Next I needed some quotes, which I borrowed…

[domhnallohanlon]

Posted a summary over on Twitter of how the challenge went and to get the word out about #wdc
9 kicking off tomorrow - any and all likes/RTs etc are greatly appreciated!

https://twitter.com/domhnallohanlon/status/1377672440982175749?s=20

No worries if you’re not on Twitter though - you can always vote in our Weekend Design Challenge poll over here:

[Poll] Are you excited for the weekend design challenge?

I’m really looking forward to the #wdc this Friday - the entries from the past two weeks have been incredible. (Check out #7 and #8 for yourself!) So, are you going to enter the Weekend Design Challenge? poll

[eko.devs.apploroceo]

hi @domhnallohanlon i really appreciate what have you done in the project
this was a really nice app
some or the other point i shall not focus about ui too much but it can be improved a bit tho
waiting for next challenge tho…
i also had an idea like
random qoutes
i will try to make it once and showcase it on the community

[domhnallohanlon]

Thanks for the kind words!

@eko.devs.apploroceo

some or the other point i shall not focus about ui too much but it can be improved a bit tho

Yeah, there’s always room for improvement - happy to hear any feedback if you have suggestions!

@eko.devs.apploroceo

i also had an idea like
random qoutes

That’s a good idea!