![]() We'd love to hear your feedback, and answer any questions you may have. It also allows you to add non-visible components to your apps, such as SMS receivers or NFC sensors.īlocks: Thunkable has a blocks-based programming language that makes it easy for novice programmers to use, but is sophisticated enough for seasoned developers to use (you can make functions, variables, callbacks, etc.). We're in the current YC W2016 batch.ĭesigner: Allows you to create an app UI by adding different UI components to your screen, such as buttons, TextBoxes, GoogleMaps, etc. We've been working on this tool at MIT and Google for the past few years as an open source project called MIT App Inventor, and we decided to make a product (Thunkable) around it to better support our users. We made Thunkable to help anyone to build native mobile apps. Starter templates include a Google Maps demo, mobile Web site, online shopping and more.ĬEO Arun Saigal explained the project on the Product Hunt Web site: While development is done on Thunkable's Web site, users can test their creations on real devices by installing the Thunkable app on their smartphone or tablet and connecting it with the cloud service. The tool compiles the blocks of code - written in Java or JavaScript- to Scheme before being packaged as a binary. When the dragging and dropping is done, the app's functionality can be tested in an emulator-like pane. With just a few clicks, for example, a user can drag over components that set an image's properties to "visible" when a certain button is clicked. The Thunkable Code Block Editor (source: Thunkable) It uses "blocks" of code that can also be dragged over to the designer, for control features, logic, math, variables, procedures and so on. Like many similar tools (rapid application development, low-code, no-code and so on), Thunkable's template-based approach works with an IDE that lets users drag UI features such as buttons, text boxes, list views and more to a graphical app designer, with controls for adjusting various features of the components. ![]() From that project, Arun Saigal and WeiHua Li created their cloud-based dev tool for building native mobile apps, starting with the Android platform, with iOS support planned. ![]()
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