When building apps on Thunkable, Screens function like blank pages in a book. They allow you to display different components and information.
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Appearance and Layout
Space Elements Horizontally
The Horizontal Alignment property allows you to space elements in a Screen horizontally
Space Elements Vertically
The Vertical Alignment property allows you to space elements in a Screen vertically
Add a Background Color or Picture
Property
Description
Background Color
Default (none). Select any color using the color picker, RGBA or HEX value
Background Picture
You can upload a background image to your app or reference an image url e.g.beaver-yellow.png
Background Picture Resize Mode
This determines how to resize the image when the frame doesn't match the raw image dimensions.
Cover: Fills the entire screen without changing the height and width ratio of the image
Contain: The entire image will be scaled down to fit inside the screen, without changing the height and width ratio of the image
Stretch: The image's height will change to fill the screen length-wise
Repeat: Repeat the image to cover the screen. The image's height and width ratio
will not change
Center: Positions the image in the middle of the frame
Enable Scrolling
Property
Description
Scrollable
Default (false). Indicates whether the screen is scrollable. For scrollable to work, the components in your screen must have heights either set in absolute pixels or set to fit contents
Set Orientation
Property
Description
Screen Orientation
Default (all). You can fix the screen orientation to portrait and landscape
Status Bar
Hide (or show) Status Bar
Property
Description
Show StatusBar
Default (true). If set to false, hides the top status bar
Status Bar Theme
Property
Description
StatusBar Style
Choose between default , light-content or dark-content to set the theme or style of the status bar
Status Bar Opacity
Please Note: The Translucent StatusBar property will only work on Android devices at this time.
Property
Description
Translucent StatusBar
Default (false). Set to true to make the Status Bar translucent. Android-only.
Status Bar Color
Please Note: The StatusBar Colorproperty will only work on Android devices at this time.
Property
Description
StatusBar Color
Default (0,0,0,0.53). Select any color using the color picker, RGBA or HEX value. Android-only.
Save Screen
Thunkable allows you to reuse a screen, and its associated blocks, in multiple projects with the "Save to My Screens" feature. You can find the save screen button at the top of the properties for every screen component in your app.
Name Your Screen
It's important that when you save your screen you use a descriptive and memorable name that describes what your screen does. The example below is for a sign in screen, which is something that often get reused across multiple projects.
Add a New Screen
Once you've saved a screen, any time you click the + button to add a new screen you will be given the option to add a blank screen or to "Copy from My Screens".
Choose a Saved Screen
Simply choose the screen that you want to add in and click the "Copy" button to proceed.
Screen Blocks
when Screen1 Starts
Event
Description
Starts
Fires when the Screen is first opened
when Screen1 Opens
Event
Description
Opens
Fires anytime the Screen is opened
when Screen1 Closes
Event
Description
Closes
Fires anytime the Screen closes
when Screen1 BackButtonPressed
Event
Description
BackButtonPressed
Fires when the physical or on-screen back button is pressed. (Android only)
in Screen1 call ToggleDrawerMenu
Function
Description
ToggleDrawerMenu
Opens or Closes the drawer menu, if available. Must be used in conjunction with the Drawer Navigator
