Release Notes 2023
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December 19, 2023
Platform Updates
Blocks: Update help links
Design Tab: Adjust styles for component tree
Fix issue where some users saw just-deleted projects on their projects page
Allow toggling of project privacy
Organizations: Improve appearance of selected background colour in list of Organizations at /account/organizations
Publish to the Apple App Store: Add links to docs in publishing modal
Component Updates
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, Switch Component, Rating Component: Fix rendering Visibility property
Add 'set font' block
Fix rendering visibility
Fix 'My Location' functionality
Navigate to project settings when 'Enter your own Google Map API Keys' is clicked
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: Fix positioning on web
Web Viewer Component: 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 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 no longer in Beta
Component Updates
Ads by AdMob: Improve appearance of AdMob components in Thunkable component gallery
Canvas Component: Fix issue with rendering Sprite opacity in Canvas tab
Prevent double-clicking 'Add Data Source' from adding multiple data sources
Improve input validation when retrieving data from row/column
Versioning: Improve asset preservation when restoring old versions of a project
Text Input Component: Improve performance of 'When Text Input Click' block
Auto-versioning: Use local timezone to add timestamps to auto-versions
December 12, 2023
New Components
Modules: 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
Upload a File to the Cloud: now works on web apps
Files Blocks: Return more detailed error messages
Label Component: Resolve minor appearance issues seen in some mobile web apps
Map Component: Show border on Android
Math Blocks: Improve performing mathematic functions on values from Text Input Component
OpenAI Services ChatGPT Integration Blocks: Return more detailed error messages
Screens: Show screen in defined orientation on iOS
Switch Component: Fix visibility property
Web Viewer Component: 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: show font preview
Data Viewer Components: 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: Add zoom-to-fit functionality to blocks page
Splash Screen Image: Validate file format used as splash screen image to prevent errors buliding app
New Components
Location Blocks: Added 'Get High Accuracy' blocks
Component Updates
Files Blocks block now works on web
Date Input Component: Improvements to 'Launch Picker' block behavior
Switch Component: Improve consistency of Switch appearance scross devices
Sound Blocks: Improved behavior of Sound Blocks block on mobile
Coordinates and Addresses Blocks: Improved error handling when invalid coordinates are given as inputs
Button Component: 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
Improve loading times of account page
New Components
Component Updates
Sound Blocks: Improvements to sound recording and playback on iOS
October 9, 2023
Platform Updates
Release AI-powered text and icon generation tool to Team accounts
October 6, 2023
Platform Updates
Download Your App on iOS: Allow users to upload own certificates to download Thunkable apps to iOS
New Components
Component Updates
Data Sources: Improvements to OAuth integration for Airtable Data Sources
Control Blocks: Improvements to Break out of Loop block
October 4, 2023
Component Updates
Files Blocks: Updated File Picker library
Camera Blocks: Updated Camera libraries
September 28, 2023
Component Updates
Variables Blocks: Improved validation for component names
September 21, 2023
Component Updates
Ads by AdMob: Alert creator when invalid AdMob ID has been entered
Updated library
Updated 'Press Opacity' to 'Tab Bar Press Opacity'
Removed deprecated 'Animation Enabled' property
Stack Navigator: added 'Animation Enabled' property
Slider Component: Fix 'On Slide Complete' block on Android
Web Viewer Component: Updated library
Control Blocks: 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: updated Sign In libraries
Ads by AdMob: Updated AdMob library
Animation Component: Updated Lottie Libraries
August 19, 2023
Platform Updates
Upgrade backend libraries
Upgrades to onboarding survey shown to new accounts
New Components
Blocks: added Location drawer of blocks
Blocks: Added new Location blocks: geocoding and reverse geocoding
Component Updates
Data Sources: text updates
Video Component: 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: fix linked project count in My Datasource tab
Image Component: Fix visibility of border around GIF files on Android
August 2, 2023
Component Updates
Sprites: Fix for 'Create Sprite Type' block
August 1, 2023
Component Updates
Data Sources: Data Sources - Make memory usage more efficient
July 31, 2023
Platform Updates
Reduce size of built apps
July 27, 2023
Component Updates
Data Sources: 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
Add hotkeys: [F] to focus on selected screen, [Space + Arrow] to pan
Organizations: 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: 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: Add option to Account Features to show placeholder images for non-active screens in project as it's being edited to improve load time
Sound Blocks: Fix bug where recorded sounds played back quietly on iOS
Layout Component: Allow custom Layouts to be used as Data Viewer layouts
June 14, 2023
Platform Updates
Drag and Drop: Show guidelines in Component Tree
Thunkable Live App: Show prompt to update outdated app
June 13, 2023
Platform Updates
Snap to Place: Changes to App Settings panel
June 12, 2023
Platform Updates
Enable setting custom splash screen in App Settings
Update Top Nav Dropdown menus UI
Improve accuracy of estimated time to build iOS apps
New Components
Component Updates
Image Component: Update package for rendering SVG images
Ads by AdMob: Set iOS tracking description when AdMob app ID is configured
Data Sources: Allow Local Data Sources to be 'App Data' or 'Stored Data'
June 2, 2023
Component Updates
"Any Component" Blocks: Improve UX for editing properties of freshly created/cloned component
May 30, 2023
Platform Updates
Drag and Drop UI: Updates to left navigation panel
Organizations: Enable duplicating personal projects into organizations
Component Updates
Ads by AdMob: Improve playback of AdMob Rewarded Video
May 25, 2023
Platform Updates
User Interface (UI) Components: UI refresh for Layout section of properties panel for UI components
Organizations: Updated org member permissions
Improve login UX when login token has expired
New Components
Component Updates
Web APIs Blocks: Switch seamlessly between String and Multipart API when inputting Body of Web API request
Slider Component: Fix 'onSlideComplete' block performance
May 18, 2023
New Components
Layout Component: Allow more precise positioning of components in Drag and Drop apps
Component Updates
Figma Integration: Correct typo
Figma Integration: improve layout fidelity to original project when Click block used
Speech Blocks: 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: Improve visibility of component names while renaming on Safari
Share Your App: Ensure Share links link to fully updated copy of Thunkable projects
Preview and Test your App: Improve Google login UX for returning users
Component Updates
User Interface (UI) Components: Updated component defauls
Map Component: Added GeoJSON
Figma Integration: Add warning when imported Figma board contains unsupported asset types
April 26, 2023
Platform Updates
Publish as a Web App: Remove phone frame outline from mobile web apps when viewed on a mobile device
Organizations: Allow Organization members to view Organization details via accoutn settings menu
Publish to the Apple App Store: When prompted to add information to App Settings, the App Settings menu will be opened
My Projects Page: 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: Allow connecting to Webflow data souce via OAuth
Map Component: Preserve panning and zooming when toggling visibility
Data Sources: 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: Prevent Versions 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: Upgraded Animation by Lottie library for web
User Interface (UI) Components: 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: Introduce Admin Dashboard
Publish as a Web App: Introduce Publish as a Web App
Preview and Test your App: 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: Data Sources: Allow connecting to a Webflow data source with OAuth
Sound Blocks: Stop sound playing in Thunkable Live app after exiting project
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: 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 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: Removed beta tag and updated project limits
Component Updates
Data Viewer Grid Component: Fix horizontal scroll
Web Viewer Component: 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: 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: Changes to displaying latest version number on Thunkable Live for Android app
Assets: Refetch assets based on major version number
Component Updates
Top Tab Navigator/ Bottom Tab Navigator: improve display of tab icons
User Interface (UI) Components: Gracefully handle null values for style properties
Figma Integration: Improvements to image rendering, performance of 'When Image click' events
February 2, 2023
Platform Updates
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
Jan 31, 2023
Platform Updates
Backend and infrastructure updates
Jan 30, 2023
Platform Updates
Organizations: 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: Update default API key
In-App Purchase Blocks (with RevenueCat): Fix for behavior where event listeners were not firing
Bluetooth Low Energy Blocks: Add 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
Figma Integration: Add missing translations to remaining Figma blocks
January 18, 2023
Platform Updates
Released Organizations
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
Figma Integration: 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
Component Updates
Map Component: New Map placeholder on web
PDF Reader Component: New PDF Reader placeholder on web
Video Component: Improve handling of video assets with whitespace character in filename
Video Component: Improve appearance of video player on web when
autoplayproperty istrue
January 4, 2023
Component Updates
Sound Blocks: Fix for changing Sound volume with blocks when Web Previewing a Snap-to-Place project
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