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    Troubleshooting

    Here are some of the most common issues that our users are running into:

    Live Test

    Issue: You see a blank / white screen when you live test (even if there are items in your app)

    • If you have a Navigator as the first item in your tree, make sure your screen is dropped within it

    • You have unconnected blocks

    • You have an event triggered by a Screen.Start which may be causing the screen to crash

    • Your app and desktop may not be logged into the same account

    Issue: Image is not showing up on your phone

    • The height or width of the image may be set to 'Fit contents'

    Issue: Trouble downloading AAB and APK files from Google Chrome

    • The Google Chrome browser blocks downloads for your safety. If you open the email with a download link for your APK or AAB file in Google Chrome, you may not be able to download your file. You can try one of these options:

      1. Open the email in another browser, like Firefox or Safari, and download the file.

      2. Change your Google Chrome settings to allow you to download files. Please note that changing your browser security settings can make you more vulnerable as you use the web, and Google Chrome does not recommend disabling this setting.

    Issue: Your app is inaccessible and an error screen is displayed saying your app is unavailable

    • It was a Testing Download and has expired after 72 hours.

    • It was a Distribution Download and you switched to the Free plan.

    • It was a Distribution Download and your App (Bundle) ID doesn't match your Active Bundle ID. You may need to enable it in your Account Settings before the app can be used.

    Issue: You don't see your app uploaded to App Store Connect

    • Icons. Ensure your icon is 192 x 192 px and has no transparencies.

    • Membership. You require an active to publish to the App Store.

    • Certificates. If you have an existing Apple Developer Program account with 2 iOS certificates, you'll have to revoke one. Apple only allows developers to have 2 iOS certificates at a time, and Thunkable creates one when it publishes to your account

    Issue: You cannot update an existing app on the Google Play Store

    • If you want to update an existing app on the Google Play Store, your app will need to have:

      • the same package name

      • a higher or incremented version number

    Issue: Your app on iOS and Android is inaccessible and your end user sees an error screen saying your app is unavailable.

    • You switched to the Free plan.

    • Your App (Bundle) ID doesn't match your Active Bundle ID and you may need to enable it in your Account Settings before the app can be used.

    1. Login to your Thunkable account.

    2. On your Projects Page, click Data Sources in the left sidebar.

    3. Click the trash can icon to delete the Google Sheets data source.

    If you are having difficulties connecting to your Google Sheets from Thunkable, you may need to reset your Google Sheets connection.

    1. Navigate to

    2. Scroll to the Your connections to third-party apps & services section.

    3. Click the Thunkable connection.

    If you can't see your components and your screens don't load, perform a hard reload.

    Google Chrome (Mac)

    1. Hold down the Cmd ⌘ and Shift keys and press R.

    2. Alternatively, you can open the Chrome Dev Tools by pressing Cmd ⌘ + Opt + I. Once the Chrome Dev Tools are open, right-click on the browser Reload button and choose Empty Cache and Hard Reload.

    Google Chrome (Windows/Linux)

    1. Open the Chrome Dev Tools by pressing F12. Once the Chrome Dev Tools are open, right-click on the browser Reload button and choose Empty Cache and Hard Reload.

    2. Alternatively, hold down the Ctrl key and click the Reload button.

    3. Alternatively, hold down the Ctrl key and press F5.

    Firefox (Windows/Linux)

    1. Hold down the Ctrl and F5 keys at the same time.

    2. Alternatively, you can clear the cache and perform a hard reload by going to History > Clear Recent History and selecting Cache and Everything from the drop-down menus. Then, click Clear Now.

    Firefox (Mac)

    1. Hold down the Cmd ⌘ and Shift keys and press R.

    2. Alternatively, you can clear the cache and perform a hard reload by going to History > Clear Recent History and selecting Cache and Everything from the drop-down menus. Then, click Clear Now.

    Microsoft Edge (Windows/Linux)

    1. Hold down the Ctrl and F5 keys at the same time.

    2. Alternatively, you can clear the cache and perform a hard reload by going to Settings > Privacy, search, and services > Clear browsing data and selecting Cached images and files and Everything else. Then, click Clear now.

    Microsoft Edge (Mac)

    1. Hold down the Cmd ⌘ and Shift keys and press R.

    2. Alternatively, you can clear the cache and perform a hard reload by going to Settings > Privacy > Clear browsing data and selecting Cached images and files and Everything else. Then, click Clear now.

    Safari (Mac)

    1. Go to Safari > Empty Caches.

    2. Alternatively, hold down the Option and Cmd ⌘ keys and press E.

    3. To refresh the page, click the Refresh button on the address bar or press Cmd + R.

    Internet Explorer (Windows)

    1. Hold down the Ctrl key and click the Refresh button.

    2. Alternatively, hold down the Ctrl key and press F5.

    3. To clear the cache, go to Tools > Internet Options > General > Browsing history and click Delete. Then, select the Temporary Internet files and website files checkbox and click Delete.

    If your blocks don't work here are some common reasons:

    List Blocks

    Using a variable that is a list:

    Instead, try this:

    Setting a label's text from a variable:

    Instead, try this:

    IAP Blocks

    Setting in app purchase package name:

    Instead, try this:

    Data Source Blocks

    Filtering based on multiple conditions:

    Instead, try this:

    FAQs

    Answers to some of the most asked questions from the Thunkable community

    Thunkable is free to use to create public projects.

    We offer paid plans for individuals and businesses looking for extra features to meet their needs. .

    Public projects are included in the Thunkable Public Gallery for anyone to preview and remix. Private projects are not included in the Thunkable Gallery and are for your eyes only.

    Private projects can only be shared with other Builder users. Please note: If you share your project with another Builder user, they have the ability to make the project public.

    Thunkable projects are saved automatically. If you wish to create a snapshot of your app at a certain point in time, you can save a version of it. More information is available here: .

    Sometimes, we need to lock access to projects to prevent unsaved changes and hours of lost work. We try to save your project frequently to avoid any loss of work. You will see the above error message and be unable to modify your project after four consecutive changes have occurred in your project without verification from our servers that a save has occurred. ​ There are various potential reasons for this to occur, such as poor internet connection on your end or connection issues between the builder and our

    Provisioning profile. After you revoke your certificate, it is possible that one or more of your provisioning profiles will become inactive. To publish successfully, you need to delete any inactive provisioning profiles.

  • Login. Ensure your Apple ID and password are entered correctly. Thunkable cannot access your credentials, so save them somewhere safe.

  • Apple ID and privacy terms. You must accept Apple's new Apple ID and privacy terms.

  • the same keystore

  • The first two are easily editable in your App Settings, but the keystore cannot be imported/exported.

  • Copied apps within an account (Duplicate Your Project) will keep the same keystore as the original app. Apps copied from a Share link will not have the same Keystore.

  • Click See details in the Thunkable has some access to your Google Account section.

  • Click Remove Access.

  • Return to Thunkable and re-connect to your Google Sheets account.

  • Download Android

    Publish iOS

    Android

    Publish iOS and Android

    Data Sources

    How can I reset my Google Sheets connection in Thunkable?

    A. Reset from Thunkable

    B. Reset from Google

    Design

    Blocks

    Variable Blocks

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    You can find instructions to do this here.
    Apple Developer Program Membership
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    backend that stores your projects. No matter the specific reason, your response should stay the same.
    • Wait for the message to go away for up to 5 minutes.

      • Go grab a glass of water or enjoy a few brisk laps around your living/work space.

      • We will work to regain the connection once it's been lost. The lock will revert as soon as we regain a connection.

    • If the message has not gone away within 5 minutes, open a new tab, navigate to and open the project you were working on.

      • DON'T MAKE CHANGES YET!

      • If your project opened, return to the first tab.

        • If the lock message remains, close tab 1, continue in tab 2, and contact creator success.

    • If you've opened another tab and you don't have any connection to the internet, please keep the tab open until you regain internet connection and check the tab again at that time.

      • If the lock still hasn't gone away, you should refresh the tab. In cases of poor connection, we can't guarantee all changes will be preserved.

    Also known as a "force reload" or a "force refresh," you can use a hard refresh of your browser to ensure you are on the latest version of Thunkable.

    The keyboard shortcut to hard refresh your browser is Ctrl + F5. Your screen will blink momentarily. If this does not work for you, try clearing your browser cache.

    On a Mac computer, you can use the Option + Cmd + R shortcut to force your browser to refresh. If this does not work for you, try clearing your browser cache.

    Thunkable offers built-in integrations with other online services, as well as the opportunity to connect to a wide world of external online services using the Web API feature. Some of our integrations are listed below.

    Animations from Lottie

    The animation component powered by Lottie makes adding animations as easy as adding images. For designers, animations can be created in Adobe After Effects or Haiku and imported as a .json file.

    For the rest of us, there is a large and growing community of designers who have created free and editable animations that you can easily add to your app.

    Data Sources

    The Data Sources blocks allow you to perform a variety of CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) operations on records you have stored in Airtable, Google Sheets, Webflow, or Local Tables.

    AdMob

    Thunkers with Builder or Advanced plans can show ads from AdMob in their downloaded and published apps. This is subject to approval by Thunkable and AdMob.

    Translation from Google Cloud

    Translate a string of text between two languages. Any language code from this list can be used. This block can be found in the Speech drawer of blocks.

    Image Recognition from Microsoft Azure

    This block will generate a written description of an image. It can be found in the Camera drawer of blocks.

    Media Storage from Cloudinary

    Save media to the cloud using Cloudinary. This block can be found in the Camera drawer of blocks. You can connect your own Cloudinary account to your Thunkable project.

    Cloud Storage with Firebase

    As well as using online Data Sources, you can use Cloud Variables which are supported by Firebase to save your data to the cloud.

    Email Sign In from Firebase

    You can use our Sign In feature which integrates with Firebase to manage user accounts.

    Push Notifications from OneSignal

    Thunkers with Builder or Advanced plans can add push notifications supported by OneSignal to their project.

    Bluetooth Low Energy

    The Bluetooth low energy component can allow your app to communicate with other devices wirelessly.

    Web API

    Great data is an essential part of many apps built today, and the Web API feature enables apps to retrieve data from any public or private API (application programming interface) service on the web.

    In-App Purchases with RevenueCat

    Thunkers with Builder or Advanced plans can add in-app purchases (IAP) supported by RevenueCat to their project.

    No, .aia files are not compatible with Thunkable.

    There is not a direct integration with an SQL server, however, it is possible to use the web API feature to connect with an SQL database.

    To do this, you need to build a RESTful API that allows you to communicate with the Database Server using HTTP requests and receive a response in JSON format.

    We recommend reading this helpful blog post by Microsoft on this topic. It also includes a short tutorial on creating such an API with Node.js.

    No, uploading extensions built for other platforms to Thunkable is not supported.

    Account Questions

    How much does it cost to use Thunkable?

    Project Questions

    What does it mean if my project is public or private?

    How do I save my project?

    Why is my project locked from editing?

    Learn more about our paid plans here
    Versioning

    How can I do a hard refresh on my browser?

    Windows

    Mac

    Integration Questions

    What integrations are available with Thunkable?

    Introduction

    Can I import an .aia file?

    Can I connect to an SQL database?

    Can I upload an extension to my app project?

    If your project didn't open, there may be a larger connectivity issue.
    • Please contact creator success.

    x.thunkable.com/projects,