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# Release Notes 2023
## December 19, 2023
Platform Updates
* [Blocks](/blocks/thunkable-blocks-overview.md): Update help links
* Design Tab: Adjust styles for component tree
* [My Projects Page](/settings/manage-your-projects/your-thunkable-projects-page.md):
* Fix issue where some users saw just-deleted projects on their projects page
* Allow toggling of project privacy
* [Organizations](/getting-started/project-collaboration/organizations.md): Improve appearance of selected background colour in list of Organizations at /account/organizations
* [Publish to the Apple App Store](/publishing/publish-to-app-store-ios.md): Add links to docs in publishing modal
Component Updates
* [Button Component](/app-design/ui-components/basic-components/button.md):
* Resize responsively in web app when window is resized
* Only apply relative sizing when Button is not contained in Group
* Add 'set font' block
* [Checkbox Component](/app-design/ui-components/input-components/checkbox-component.md), [Switch Component](/app-design/ui-components/input-components/switch.md), [Rating Component](/app-design/ui-components/embed-components/rating.md): Fix rendering Visibility property
* [Label Component](/app-design/ui-components/basic-components/label.md):
* Add 'set font' block
* Fix rendering visibility
* [Map Component](/app-design/ui-components/embed-components/map.md):
* Fix 'My Location' functionality
* Navigate to project settings when 'Enter your own Google Map API Keys' is clicked
* [Text Input Component](/app-design/ui-components/basic-components/text-input.md):
* Update what platforms support text formatting (bold, underline, strikethrough)
* Remove extra font field from properties panel
* Execute click action when Text Input is focused upon
* [Time Input Component](/app-design/ui-components/input-components/time-input.md): Fix positioning on web
* [Web Viewer Component](/app-design/ui-components/embed-components/web-viewer.md): Allow navigation through page history when viewing on web
## December 14, 2023
Platform Updates
* Adjust styles on login page for mobile devices
* Improve UX to [Preview and Test your App](/getting-started/live-test.md) with Thunkable Live app
* Improve UX for renewing membership with Stripe payments
* Minor visibility tweaks to project cards on the home page
New Components
* [Layout Component](/app-design/ui-components/basic-components/layout.md) no longer in Beta
Component Updates
* [Ads by AdMob](/blocks/app-features/admob.md): Improve appearance of AdMob components in Thunkable component gallery
* [Canvas Component](/app-design/ui-components/embed-components/canvas.md): Fix issue with rendering Sprite opacity in Canvas tab
* [Data Sources](/getting-started/data-sources.md):
* Prevent double-clicking 'Add Data Source' from adding multiple data sources
* Improve input validation when retrieving data from row/column
* [Versioning](/getting-started/versioning.md): Improve asset preservation when restoring old versions of a project
* [Text Input Component](/app-design/ui-components/basic-components/text-input.md): Improve performance of 'When Text Input Click' block
* [Versioning](/getting-started/versioning.md#auto-versioning): Use local timezone to add timestamps to auto-versions
## December 12, 2023
New Components
* [Modules](/app-design/ui-components/modules.md): Save combinations of components and blocks to reuse in your projects and share with other Thunkers
## December 6, 2023
Platform Updates
* Upgrade Blockly library used to render Blocks tab
## December 4, 2023
Platform Updates
* New Design for Projects Page
## November 30, 2023
Platform Updates
* Improve appearance of login screen on smaller screens
## November 28, 2023
Platform Updates
* Improve behavior of tutorials in Thunkable Live for Android
Component Updates
* [Files Blocks](/blocks/app-features/files-blocks.md#upload-a-file-to-the-cloud): now works on web apps
* [Files Blocks](/blocks/app-features/files-blocks.md): Return more detailed error messages
* [Label Component](/app-design/ui-components/basic-components/label.md): Resolve minor appearance issues seen in some mobile web apps
* [Map Component](/app-design/ui-components/embed-components/map.md): Show border on Android
* [Math Blocks](/blocks/blocks/math.md): Improve performing mathematic functions on values from [Text Input Component](/app-design/ui-components/basic-components/text-input.md)
* [OpenAI Services ChatGPT Integration Blocks](/blocks/advanced-app-features/openai-services-chatgpt-integration-blocks.md): Return more detailed error messages
* [Screens](/app-design/screen.md): Show screen in defined orientation on iOS
* [Switch Component](/app-design/ui-components/input-components/switch.md): Fix visibility property
* [Web Viewer Component](/app-design/ui-components/embed-components/web-viewer.md): Improve performance of 'set URL' block
## November 16, 2023
Platform Updates
* Improve process for renaming project copies
* Validate app icon during publishing
Component Updates
* [Label Component](/app-design/ui-components/basic-components/label.md): show font preview
* [Data Viewer Components](/app-design/ui-components/data-components/data-viewers.md): Improve display of custom layouts
## November 13, 2023
Platform Updates
* Updated libraries for better developer experience on the platform
## October 27, 2023
Platform Updates
* Improved UX for filtering and searching in public gallery
* Upgraded libraries
## October 26, 2023
Platform Updates
* [Blocks](/blocks/thunkable-blocks-overview.md): Add zoom-to-fit functionality to blocks page
* [App Settings](/settings/project-settings.md#splash-screen-image): Validate file format used as splash screen image to prevent errors buliding app
New Components
* [Location Blocks](/blocks/app-features/location-blocks.md): Added 'Get High Accuracy' blocks
Component Updates
* [Files Blocks](/blocks/app-features/files-blocks.md#file-from-device) block now works on web
* [Date Input Component](/app-design/ui-components/input-components/date-input.md): Improvements to 'Launch Picker' block behavior
* [Switch Component](/app-design/ui-components/input-components/switch.md): Improve consistency of Switch appearance scross devices
* [Sound Blocks](/blocks/app-features/sound.md): Improved behavior of [Sound Blocks](/blocks/app-features/sound.md#is-sound-paused) block on mobile
* [Location Blocks](/blocks/app-features/location-blocks.md#coordinates-and-addresses-blocks): Improved error handling when invalid coordinates are given as inputs
* [Button Component](/app-design/ui-components/basic-components/button.md): Improved appearance of drop shadows on mobile
## October 19, 2023
Platform Updates
* Updated front end libraries
## October 16, 2023
Platform Updates
* Add modal and tooltips for [Keyboard Shortcuts](/getting-started/keyboard-shortcuts.md)
* Improve loading times of account page
New Components
* [Location Blocks](/blocks/app-features/location-blocks.md): Added [Location Blocks](/blocks/app-features/location-blocks.md#search-places-blocks)
Component Updates
* [Sound Blocks](/blocks/app-features/sound.md): Improvements to sound recording and playback on iOS
## October 9, 2023
Platform Updates
* Release AI-powered text and icon generation tool to [Team](https://thunkable.com/pricing) accounts
## October 6, 2023
Platform Updates
* [Download Your App on iOS](/settings/manage-your-projects/download/iosdownload.md): Allow users to upload own certificates to download Thunkable apps to iOS
New Components
* [User Sign Up, Sign In, and Authentication with Apple](/blocks/app-features/sign-in/user-sign-up-sign-in-and-authentication-with-apple.md)
Component Updates
* [Data Sources](/getting-started/data-sources.md): Improvements to OAuth integration for Airtable Data Sources
* [Control Blocks](/blocks/blocks/control.md): Improvements to [Control Blocks](/blocks/blocks/control.md#break-out-of-loop) block
## October 4, 2023
Component Updates
* [Files Blocks](/blocks/app-features/files-blocks.md): Updated File Picker library
* [Camera Blocks](/blocks/app-features/camera.md): Updated Camera libraries
## September 28, 2023
Component Updates
* [Variables Blocks](/blocks/blocks/variables-overview/variables.md): Improved validation for component names
## September 21, 2023
Component Updates
* [Ads by AdMob](/blocks/app-features/admob.md): Alert creator when invalid AdMob ID has been entered
* [Top Tab Navigator](/app-design/screens-and-navigators/top-tab-navigator.md)
* Updated library
* Updated 'Press Opacity' to 'Tab Bar Press Opacity'
* Removed deprecated 'Animation Enabled' property
* [Stack Navigator](/app-design/screens-and-navigators/stack-navigator.md): added 'Animation Enabled' property
* [Slider Component](/app-design/ui-components/input-components/slider.md): Fix 'On Slide Complete' block on Android
* [Web Viewer Component](/app-design/ui-components/embed-components/web-viewer.md): Updated library
* [Control Blocks](/blocks/blocks/control.md): fixed async behavior in if-else blocks
## September 12, 2023
Platform Updates
* Updated blocks editor
* Blocks now remain visible on screen when panning
* Smoother experience scrolling through long menus of blocks
## September 5, 2023
Platform Updates
* Remove deprecated libraries
* Update hotkeys UX
## August 30, 2023
Platform Updates
* Removed unused libraries
* Upgraded libraries
* Updated onboarding survey
## August 24, 2023
Platform Updates
* Remove unused packages to deliver services faster
* Updated welcome video
* Updated onboarding survey
Component Updates
* [Sign In Blocks](/blocks/app-features/sign-in.md): updated Sign In libraries
* [Ads by AdMob](/blocks/app-features/admob.md): Updated AdMob library
* [Animation Component](/app-design/ui-components/media-components/lottie.md): Updated Lottie Libraries
## August 19, 2023
Platform Updates
* Upgrade backend libraries
* Allow [self-serve upgrade to Advanced plans](https://thunkable.com/pricing)
* Upgrades to onboarding survey shown to new accounts
New Components
* [Blocks](/blocks/thunkable-blocks-overview.md): added Location drawer of blocks
* [Blocks](/blocks/thunkable-blocks-overview.md): Added new Location blocks: geocoding and reverse geocoding
Component Updates
* [Data Sources](/getting-started/data-sources.md#webflow): text updates
* [Video Component](/app-design/ui-components/media-components/video.md): Fix autoplay on Android
## August 9, 2023
Platform Updates
* Improve iOS download experience by changing how assets are retrieved during the build process
Component Updates
* [Data Sources](/getting-started/data-sources.md): fix linked project count in My Datasource tab
* [Image Component](/app-design/ui-components/basic-components/image-1.md): Fix visibility of border around GIF files on Android
## August 2, 2023
Component Updates
* [Sprites](/gaming/gaming/sprites.md): Fix for 'Create Sprite Type' block
## August 1, 2023
Component Updates
* [Data Sources](/getting-started/data-sources.md): [Data Sources](/getting-started/data-sources.md#google-sheets) - Make memory usage more efficient
## July 31, 2023
Platform Updates
* Reduce size of built apps
## July 27, 2023
Component Updates
* [Data Sources](/getting-started/data-sources.md#airtable): Add OAuth authentication to connect to Airtable account
## July 26, 2023
Platform Updates
* Fix rendering Live Test code in Thunkable Live app for accounts that sign in with email
* Fix file uploaod for iOS certificates
## July 25, 2023
Platform Updates
* Add Ability to build Android apps to target Android 33 \
[Publish to Google Play Store](/publishing/publish-to-play-store-android.md)
* Add hotkeys: \[F] to focus on selected screen, \[Space + Arrow] to pan
* [Organizations](/getting-started/project-collaboration/organizations.md): Introduced Comments
Component Updates
* Update Image Picker
* Resolve issues seen by some accounts when adding Google Sheets to projects
* Improve audio when playing back recorded video
## July 17, 2023
Component Updates
* [Files Blocks](/blocks/app-features/files-blocks.md): Improve file upload in Thunkable Live app
## July 5, 2023
Platform Updates
* Improve how Android Keystores are stored and retrieved
* Add hotkeys: \[T] to toggle between Design/Blocks, \[P] to preview your project on the web
* Performance improvements
Component updates
* Fix sound playback when media file has whitespace character in name
## July 3, 2023
Platform Updates
* Update survey shown to new Creators
## June 20, 2023
Platform Updates
* Drag-and-Drop UI: UI update for drop-down menus
* Add T hotkey to toggle between Design and Blocks tabs in Thunkable projects
Component Updates
* [Screens](/app-design/screen.md): Add option to [Account Features](https://x.thunkable.com/account/features) to show placeholder images for non-active screens in project as it's being edited to improve load time
* [Sound Blocks](/blocks/app-features/sound.md): Fix bug where recorded sounds played back quietly on iOS
* [Layout Component](/app-design/ui-components/basic-components/layout.md): Allow custom Layouts to be used as Data Viewer layouts
## June 14, 2023
Platform Updates
* [Drag and Drop](https://docs.thunkable.com/): Show guidelines in Component Tree
* Thunkable Live App: Show prompt to update outdated app
## June 13, 2023
Platform Updates
* [Snap to Place](https://docs.thunkable.com/snap-to-place/): Changes to App Settings panel
## June 12, 2023
Platform Updates
* Enable setting custom splash screen in [App Settings](/settings/project-settings.md)
* Update Top Nav Dropdown menus UI
* Improve accuracy of estimated time to build iOS apps
New Components
Component Updates
* [Image Component](/app-design/ui-components/basic-components/image-1.md): Update package for rendering SVG images
* [Ads by AdMob](/blocks/app-features/admob.md): Set iOS tracking description when AdMob app ID is configured
* [Data Sources](/getting-started/data-sources.md): Allow Local Data Sources to be 'App Data' or 'Stored Data'
## June 2, 2023
Component Updates
* ["Any Component" Blocks](/blocks/advanced-app-features/any-component-blocks.md): Improve UX for editing properties of freshly created/cloned component
## May 30, 2023
Platform Updates
* [Drag and Drop](https://docs.thunkable.com/) UI: Updates to left navigation panel
* [Organizations](/getting-started/project-collaboration/organizations.md): Enable duplicating personal projects into organizations
Component Updates
* [Ads by AdMob](/blocks/app-features/admob.md): Improve playback of AdMob Rewarded Video
## May 25, 2023
Platform Updates
* [User Interface (UI) Components](/app-design/ui-components.md): UI refresh for Layout section of properties panel for UI components
* [Organizations](/getting-started/project-collaboration/organizations.md): Updated org member permissions
* Improve login UX when login token has expired
New Components
Component Updates
* [Web APIs Blocks](/blocks/advanced-app-features/web-api.md): Switch seamlessly between String and Multipart API when inputting Body of Web API request
* [Slider Component](/app-design/ui-components/input-components/slider.md): Fix 'onSlideComplete' block performance
## May 18, 2023
New Components
* [Layout Component](/app-design/ui-components/basic-components/layout.md): Allow more precise positioning of components in Drag and Drop apps
Component Updates
* [Broken mention](broken://pages/-Md0y9bZOu7UiYx8aAjg): Correct typo
* [Broken mention](broken://pages/-Md0y9bZOu7UiYx8aAjg): improve layout fidelity to original project when Click block used
* [Speech Blocks](/blocks/app-features/speech.md): updated package used to provide functionality
## May 12, 2023
Platform Updates
* Update process for returning to login screen when login token has expired
## May 4, 2023
Platform Updates
* [User Interface (UI) Components](/app-design/ui-components.md): Improve visibility of component names while renaming on Safari
* [Share Your App](/settings/manage-your-projects/share-1.md): Ensure Share links link to fully updated copy of Thunkable projects
* [Preview and Test your App](/getting-started/live-test.md): Improve Google login UX for returning users
Component Updates
* [User Interface (UI) Components](/app-design/ui-components.md): Updated component defauls
* [Map Component](/app-design/ui-components/embed-components/map.md): Added GeoJSON
* [Broken mention](broken://pages/-Md0y9bZOu7UiYx8aAjg): Add warning when imported Figma board contains unsupported asset types
## April 26, 2023
Platform Updates
* [Publish as a Web App](/publishing/publish-as-a-web-app-pro.md): Remove phone frame outline from mobile web apps when viewed on a mobile device
* [Organizations](/getting-started/project-collaboration/organizations.md): Allow Organization members to view Organization details via accoutn settings menu
* [Publish to the Apple App Store](/publishing/publish-to-app-store-ios.md): When prompted to add information to App Settings, the App Settings menu will be opened
* [My Projects Page](/settings/manage-your-projects/your-thunkable-projects-page.md): Added pagination to Grid View of projects page
* Snap to Place UI: Improve UX when deleting invisible components from a project
Component Updates
* [Data Sources](/getting-started/data-sources.md): Allow connecting to Webflow data souce via OAuth
* [Map Component](/app-design/ui-components/embed-components/map.md): Preserve panning and zooming when toggling visibility
* [Data Sources](/getting-started/data-sources.md): Resolve behavior where some Creators couldn't access projects whose associated data sources had been deleted
## April 25, 2023
Platform Updates
* [Preview and Test your App](/getting-started/live-test.md): Prevent [Versions](https://docs.thunkable.com/versioning) of a project from appearing as separate projects in the Thunkable Live app
## April 20, 2023
Platform Updates
* Updates to Public Gallery
* Drag and Drop UI: Updated top navigation bar
* Improved analytics
* Expanded test suite
Component Updates
* [Animation Component](/app-design/ui-components/media-components/lottie.md): Upgraded Animation by Lottie library for web
* [User Interface (UI) Components](/app-design/ui-components.md): Updated component defaults
## April 18, 2023
Platform Updates
* Resolve behavior where projects that were connected to deleted data sources were inaccessible to some Creators
* Auto Versions: Improve loading of selected auto versions in Design tab
## April 18, 2023
Platform Updates
* Change how we store keystores to preserve ability to properly duplicate projects with keystores
## April 13, 2023
Platform Updates
* [Organizations](/getting-started/project-collaboration/organizations.md): Introduce [Organizations](/getting-started/project-collaboration/organizations.md#admin-dashboard)
* [Publish as a Web App](/publishing/publish-as-a-web-app-pro.md#publish-web-app): Introduce [Publish as a Web App](/publishing/publish-as-a-web-app-pro.md#publish-to-a-custom-domain)
* [Preview and Test your App](/getting-started/live-test.md#preview-your-app-on-the-web): Fixes to opening of web preview in new window
* Improved site behavior when clicking on project 3-dot menu in project list view on Projects Page
Component Updates
* [Data Sources](/getting-started/data-sources.md): [Data Sources](/getting-started/data-sources.md#webflow): Allow connecting to a Webflow data source with OAuth
* [Sound Blocks](/blocks/app-features/sound.md): Stop sound playing in Thunkable Live app after exiting project
* [Speech Blocks](/blocks/app-features/speech.md#text-to-speech) Stop sound playing in Thunkable Live app after exiting project
## April 6, 2023
Platform Updates
* Thunkable Community: Improve sign-in process when signing in via SSO linked to an Apple or Google account
* Cleaned up some backend files for better site performance
## April 5, 2023
Platform Updates
* [Preview and Test your App](/getting-started/live-test.md): Added link to Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions to Settings screen of the Thunkable Live app, to make access easier for users at all times
## March 31, 2023
Platform Updates
* [Organizations](/getting-started/project-collaboration/organizations.md) Updates
* Updated project view for organization members with View access
* Allow organization members with Edit access to take over editing a project if previous editor has been inactive
* Introduced admin dashboard for administrators of organizations to view projects, members, etc
* Gracefully handle when a project in an Organization has previously been published, has an Android keystore file, and is now being duplicated within the organization
## March 28, 2023
Platform Updates
* Added option to build Android, iOS apps with Expo 47
* iOS apps built with Expo 47 target iOS 16
## March 22, 2023
Platform Updates
* Improvements to iOS publishing process
## March 21, 2023
Platform Updates
* Add additional error handling to Google Sign In
## March 15, 2023
Platform Updates
* Streamline data being backed up to cloud for more efficient project retrieval
## March 9, 2023
Platform Updates
* Design Tab: Updated UI of Component Tree
* [Versioning](/getting-started/versioning.md): Removed beta tag and updated project limits
Component Updates
* [Data Viewer Grid Component](/app-design/ui-components/data-components/data-viewers/data-viewer-grid.md): Fix horizontal scroll
* [Web Viewer Component](/app-design/ui-components/embed-components/web-viewer.md): Improve UI when showing videos within web pages in full screen
## March 1, 2023
Component Updates
* AdMob: Resolve 'replaceAdMobKeys' build issue seen by some Creators
## February 28, 2023
Platform Updates
* Drag and Drop: Introduced ability to 'nudge', using arrow keys to change positions of components
* Upgraded package used for creators to sign in to Thunkable with Google
* Improved efficiency of iOS Build Server
Component Updates
* [Ads by AdMob](/blocks/app-features/admob.md): upgraded ads package to newest Google Mobile Ads SDK
## February 22, 2023
Platform Updates
* Improve performance on project page list
* Improve performance of My Data sources tab
## February 17, 2023
Platform Updates
* Backend and infrastructure updates to improve site speed and reliability
## February 14, 2023
Platform Updates
* [Preview and Test your App](/getting-started/live-test.md): Changes to displaying latest version number on Thunkable Live for Android app
* [Assets](/settings/assets.md): Refetch assets based on major version number
Component Updates
* [Top Tab Navigator](/app-design/screens-and-navigators/top-tab-navigator.md)/ [Bottom Tab Navigator](/app-design/screens-and-navigators/bottom-tab-navigator.md): improve display of tab icons
* [User Interface (UI) Components](/app-design/ui-components.md): Gracefully handle null values for style properties
* [Broken mention](broken://pages/-Md0y9bZOu7UiYx8aAjg): Improvements to image rendering, performance of 'When Image click' events
## February 2, 2023
Platform Updates
* [Versioning](/getting-started/versioning.md#auto-versioning): Thunkable will automatically create backups of your project
* Web Preview: Fix for behavior where project page would scroll inadvertently when previewing project on web
* Asset preview: Fix for issues seen by some Creators when previewing assets using the link in the asset modal
## February 1, 2023
Platform Updates
* Backend and infrastructure updates
* Expanded automated test suite
* Updated descriptions of benefits on [pricing page](https://thunkable.com/#/pricing)
## Jan 31, 2023
Platform Updates
* Backend and infrastructure updates
## Jan 30, 2023
Platform Updates
* [Organizations](/getting-started/project-collaboration/organizations.md): Released docs
* Allow multiple Thunkable accounts within a single Organization to collaborate on a single project
## January 26, 2023
Component Updates
* [OpenAI Services ChatGPT Integration Blocks](/blocks/advanced-app-features/openai-services-chatgpt-integration-blocks.md): Update default API key
* [In-App Purchase Blocks (with RevenueCat)](/blocks/app-features/in-app-purchase-blocks-with-revenuecat.md): Fix for behavior where event listeners were not firing
* [Bluetooth Low Energy Blocks](/blocks/advanced-app-features/bluetooth-low-energy.md): Add [Bluetooth Low Energy Blocks](/blocks/advanced-app-features/bluetooth-low-energy.md#transmit-hexadecimal) block
## January 24, 2023
Platform Updates
* Additions to automated testing done on backend
## January 20, 2023
Platform Updates
* Move chat option to top navigation bar
* Fix alignment of featured projects at bottom of screen
Component Updates
* [Broken mention](broken://pages/-Md0y9bZOu7UiYx8aAjg): Add missing translations to remaining Figma blocks
## January 18, 2023
Platform Updates
* Released [Organizations](/getting-started/project-collaboration/organizations.md)
* Allow multiple Thunkable accounts within a single Organization to collaborate on a single project
* Backend infrastructure upgrades
* Improve user experience when sharing project that connects to online data source (eg. using API keys) with non-owner of data source
* Improve fetching account permissions when opening projects
Component Updates
* [Broken mention](broken://pages/-Md0y9bZOu7UiYx8aAjg): Add missing translations to Figma blocks
## January 13, 2023
Platform Updates
* Improve build times for Android APK files by reducting background processes
## January 6, 2023
Platform Updates
* Improvements to integration with Clever
* Remove unnecessary packages from backend to deliver faster performance
## January 5, 2023
Platform Updates
* Android: Gracefully handle error when app tries to get indexed item of null list
New Components
* [OpenAI Services ChatGPT Integration Blocks](/blocks/advanced-app-features/openai-services-chatgpt-integration-blocks.md)
Component Updates
* [Map Component](/app-design/ui-components/embed-components/map.md): New Map placeholder on web
* [PDF Reader Component](/app-design/ui-components/embed-components/pdf-reader.md): New PDF Reader placeholder on web
* [Video Component](/app-design/ui-components/media-components/video.md): Improve handling of video assets with whitespace character in filename
* [Video Component](/app-design/ui-components/media-components/video.md): Improve appearance of video player on web when `autoplay` property is `true`
## January 4, 2023
Component Updates
* [Sound Blocks](/blocks/app-features/sound.md): Fix for changing Sound volume with blocks when Web Previewing a Snap-to-Place project