Release Notes 2021

December 22, 2021

Component Updates

• Drag and Drop UI, Label: Improve appearance of Label on wider screens

December 21, 2021

Component Updates

• Map: Add blocks to add markers of different colors, use assets as markers

• Map: General Improvements

• Data Viewer: Add ability to set text for empty values in Data Source

• Data Sources: Add support for deleting all rows from Google Sheet

• Drag and Drop UI, Data Viewer: Selecting a layout is now done in a separate modal

December 20, 2021

Platform Updates

• Fix for blocks in Snap to Place editor

Component Updates

• Button: Added ability to upload custom font files (Business and Enterprise feature)

• Label: Added ability to upload custom font files (Business and Enterprise feature)

• Drag and Drop UI, Text Input: Changes to default style

• Drag and Drop UI, Top Tab Navigator: New properties

December 17, 2021

Platform Updates

• Fix checking if AdMob banners exist in project info

• Fix copy paste in blocks editor

Component Updates

• Add Location Permissions toggle to Push Notifications

December 16, 2021

Platform Updates

• Updates to imported Figma artboards

• Updates to using

Component Updates

• Updates to Web Viewer using non-URL sources (eg. local HTML files)

December 15, 2021

Component Updates

• Data Viewer: Show data from Data Source as soon as Data Source is connected

December 10, 2021

Platform Updates

• Update icons used when Figma art board is imported to Thunkable project

New Components

• In-App Purchases

December 8, 2021

Platform updates:

• Fix related to iOS build - removed default NSUserTrackingUsageDescriptior

December 4, 2021

Platform Updates

• Changes to how local assets are handled on iOS

December 1, 2021

Platform Updates

• Fix image sharing on Android with HTTP URI

• Rearrange interactive section in properties panel

• Thunkable Live for iOS: set the iOS app version and build numbers when running the script

Component Updates

• AdMob: prevent keys from being overridden

• Maps: prevent keys from being overridden

November 23, 2021

Component Updates

• Data Sources: Minor Updates to projects with Webflow Data Sources

November 22, 2021

Platform Updates

• Ability to connect to Webflow Data Source

Component Updates

• Firebase: Upgraded to Firebase 9

• Canvas: Added Stage height/width blocks to toolbox

November 18, 2021

New Components

• In-App Purchase

November 12, 2021

Platform Updates

• New lane added for bulding IPA files, improving build times for iOS apps

• Dropped support for iOS 11

• Improved behavior of variables when testing project on project details page

Component Updates

• Screen: fixes to Open and Start blocks

November 9, 2021

New Components

• Figma Integration officially released

November 8, 2021

Platform Updates

• Improve Visibility of Tab Navigator components in blocks

November 4, 2021

Platform Updates

• Drag and Drop: Rename 'Camera' drawer to 'Camera & Media'

• Drag and Drop: Add ability to design in tablet view

• UI Updates

New Components/blocks

• Drag and Drop: ability to connect to Webflow Data Source

Component Updates

• Map: Fix 'onCalloutPress' on iOS

• Map: show my Location on Android

• Drag and Drop, Map: Add 'showsCompass' property

• Drag and Drop: Add Shadow property to visible components

October 29, 2021

Platform Updates

• Improvements to saving/importing screens

• Drag and Drop UI: Improvements to adding sensors, AdMob components to project

October 28, 2021

Platform Updates

• Clean up how Google Sheets auth tokens are handled

• Improvements to Projects Page for accounts with 0 projects

October 22, 2021

Platform Updates

• Improvements to how default permissions are requested by built iOS apps

October 18, 2021

Platform Updates

• Changes to icons used to represent imported Figma files/vectors

October 17, 2021

Component Updates

• Web Viewer: Corrected default behavior when no URL value entered and height='Fit Contents'

October 15, 2021

Platform Updates

• UI updates

New components/blocks

• New block to resize images in Camera drawer of blocks

Component Updates

• Map - corrected default behavior when no latitude/longitude values entered

October 13, 2021

Platform Updates

• UI updates

• Removed some caching processes to increase speed

October 8, 2021

Platform Updates

• Drag and Drop UI: Improvements to UX when dragging components around in the component tree

• Updates to sign-in email

October 5, 2021

Platform Updates

• Update text on platform sign-in page

September 29, 2021

Component Updates

• Improve appearance of clickable Image components

September 23, 2021

Platform Updates

• Improvements to app layouts on tablets

• STP: Updates to Designer

Component Updates

• Improved handling of deliberately null component properties

September 22, 2021

Platform Updates

• Changes in how project assets are retrieved from the cloud

September 17, 2021

Component Updates

• Added new font options to Label and Button

September 7, 2021

Component Updates

• Changes to how Location Sensor requests user's location

September 3, 2021

Component Updates

• iOS: Apps that use Camera but not Photo Library will no longer request Photo Library access

• iOS: Apps that use Photo Library but not Camera will no longer request Camera access

August 26, 2021

Component Updates

• Drag and Drop: New properties for Map and Text Input components

August 24, 2021

Platform Updates:

• Improvements to Thunkable plan upgrades - plan upgrades are now effective immediately

August 18, 2021

Platform Updates:

• Make Web Apps more compatible with tablets, changing device orientation

• Improve handling of uploaded keystores

Component Updates:

• Share: enable sharing base 64 images on Android

• AdMob: Improve behavior of Reward User block for Rewarded Video ads

August 12, 2021

Platform Updates:

• Improvements to appearance of project designer

August 3, 2021

Component Updates:

• Drag and Drop UI: New properties added to Label and List Viewer

July 20, 2021

Platform Updates:

• Restore App Store publishing to PRO Thunkers on all plans

July 19, 2021

Platform Updates:

• New Pricing Plan

Component Updates:

• Web Viewer: Only call Reload function if the URL field is not blank

July 15, 2021

Platform Updates:

• Changes to how documents uploaded to the Thunkable project are stored

Component Updates:

• Data Source: fixed bug where create row and delete all rows blocks behaved as a break condition

July 13, 2021

Platform Updates:

• Upgrades to some backend packages

Component Updates:

• Speech Recognizer: Update method used to return output

July 7, 2021

Platform Updates:

• Minor updates to the project Designer

June 25, 2021

Component Updates:

• Improvements to appearance of colors in Top Tab Navigator and Bottom Tab Navigator in Drag and Drop UI

June 15, 2021

Platform Updates:

• Introduced ability to generate AAB file for publishing to Google Play Store

• Improvements to behavior of downloaded APKs from projects that contain renamed assets

June 9, 2021

Platform Updates:

• Improvements to performance of Google Sheets Data Sources picker

May 27, 2021

Platform Updates:

• No longer auto-select first item in media drop-down menu when selecting media source for components such as Image or Sound

• Drag and Drop platform: New video tutorials

New Components:

• Drag and Drop UI: Stack Navigator

Component Updates:

• Drag and Drop UI: components that are not Groups will no longer accept "children" in the Component Tree

• Drag and Drop UI: Data Viewer List's Left Swipe Enabled and Right Swipe Enabled properties are restored in Design Tab

• Drag and Drop UI: Label and Button now have a range of fonts to choose from

• Online Data Sources are no longer disconnected from a project when it is copied within the same account

May 24, 2021

Platform Updates:

• Drag and Drop: Enable pan-to-scroll in Design tab

Component Updates:

• Improvements to performance of Push Notifications on iOS

May 21, 2021

Component Updates:

• Stack Navigator no longer compresses screens when previewing on web or in a published web app

May 19, 2021

Platform Updates

• Style updates to login page

• Publish as web app: Instead of automatically publish as a mobile web app, let creator choose mobile or responsive web app as project is first published

• Drag and Drop: Restore guidelines in Design tab

Component Updates

• Duplicated Screens will be added to the right of the existing Screen

• Drag and Drop: Improve behavior of Navigator properties panel in Design tab

May 13, 2021

Component Updates

• Improvements to Web Viewer scrolling behavior in Drag and Drop projects on Android and iOS

May 12, 2021

Platform Updates

• Update platform to Expo 41

  • Built APKs now target Android 11

  • Project Settings includes AdMob Settings section

  • iOS apps with AdMob now ask for permission to show personalized ads to users in line with Apple's AppTrackingTransparency requirements

• Update style of sign in/sign up page

• Fix top banner position in Snap to Place projects

Component Updates

• Expo 41 update also includes minor updates to the following: Video Recorder, Audio Recorder, Barcode Scanner, Camera, Photo Library, Keep Screen Awake block, Location Sensor, Date Input, Time Input, Gyroscope, Accelerometer, Magnetometer, Animation by Lottie

  • These updates are effective in the Snap to Place UI and the Drag and Drop UI

  • These updates are related to permissions and will not affect the performance of these components in your project

May 5, 2021

Platform Updates

• Allow published web apps to be embedded in a HTML iframe

• Add alert when previewing a project that contains a Web Viewer or a Bluetooth Low Energy component on the web, advising that performance may not match performance on a device

• Improve visibility of components on Drag and Drop canvas when very zoomed in

Component Updates

• Improve appearance of customized Switch colors

• Update error message shown when Web API fails to fetch data

New Components

April 30, 2021

Platform Updates

• Remove legacyExternalStorage permission from built Android apps in line with Google's Policy Updates

Component Updates

• Improved performance of Sound component on iOS

April 23, 2021

Component Updates

• Drag and Drop: Added Screen-specific properties to Top Tab Navigator, Bottom Tab Navigator, and Drawer Navigator

April 22, 2021

Platform Updates

• Fix issue where downloaded iOS apps showed blank space at top and bottom of screen.

  • Added Ignore Notch Area and Notch Area Background Color as properties in Project Settings.

• Let App Name of web apps set page title instead of project name

April 20, 2021

Platform Updates

• Add AdMob IDFA to iOS build server

• New phone frame border

• Speed up dragging in large projects

• Snap to Place: Improvements behavior on Android where if the device language is a language that is written right-to-left, the position of the components on the app screen are inverted

• Drag and Drop: Adjustments to spacing between Screens in the Design tab

• Drag and Drop: Reset screen position when switching from preview to editing

Component Updates

• Update style of Alert component

April 13, 2021

Platform Updates

• Prevent error when no data is found in Airtable base

• Allow HTTP traffic on Android

• Drag and Drop: improve performance of hidden components on Android

Component Updates

• Allow Objects Get Property Of blocks to handle nested properties and arrays

• Airtable component and Data Sources: Allow rows to be created/updated with non-text values

• Add Text Items Color, Text Items Background Color, and Font Size properties to the List Viewer

• Drag and Drop: add background image to Groups

New Components

• Drag and Drop: AdMob banner

• Drag and Drop: Switch

Mar 24, 2021

Platform Updates

• Display default profile picture if one has not been set

• Adjust scroll bar on Drag and Drop UI

• Adjustments to Sort By filter on projects homepage

Component Updates

• Fix tooltip message for Web Viewer

• Updated icons for Google Maps and Lottie components

Mar 18, 2021

Platform Updates

• Update Image icon

• Add Delete Project confirmation modal

• Increase size of border on web preview phone frame

• Update fonts in left sidebar

• Fix scroll glitch in Add Components section

• Drag and Drop: When component is duplicated, add to top of component tree

• Drag and Drop: Increase screen size on Design tab

• Drag and Drop: Remove auto margin that interferes with centering active screen

• Drag and Drop: Improve appearance of Labels in web apps

• Drag and Drop: Update Component Tree

• Drag and Drop: Update Properties Panel layout

Mar 15, 2021

Component Updates

• Improve performance of Translator component on the web

March 8, 2021

Component Updates

• Launch Pickers only if visible

• Improvements to Android build server

Mar 1, 2021

Platform Updates

• Add security modal to prevent accidental deletion of projects. Modal includes warning that project keystore will be deleted.

• Critical update to Thunkable Live for iOS released

• Set delete buttons to be red

Feb 22, 2021

Platform updates

• Improved performance of Thunkable Live app for iOS

• Introduced status page for Thunkable

Feb 15, 2021

Platform Updates

• Improve rendering of Screens in Design tab of Drag and Drop projects

• Added the following components to Drag and Drop UI:

  • Time Input

  • Date Input

  • Additional guidelines to guide positioning of components

Feb 8, 2021

Component Updates

• Added block get device color scheme to the Device drawer of blocks

February 3, 2021

Platform Updates

• Improve iOS build process on Drag and Drop UI

Component Updates

• Improve performance of Text Input with 'Secure Text Entry' property enabled on web apps and apps being previewed on the web

• Update text for set/get blocks

January 26, 2021

Platform Updates

• Improve positioning of imported files in a Screen

• Improve appearance of component tree

January 8, 2021

Platform updates