March 2020

🏆 Our First Challenge!

First and foremost we hope everyone’s safe & healthy right now. At times, it’s been difficult for us to prioritize work with everything going on. Our entire team has shifted to working from home (as I’m sure most of you all have by now). But as social distancing becomes the new norm, new challenges have emerged.

We can lose connections with our co-workers. We can lose connections with our friends. And we can lose connections with our favorite small businesses. But as we thought more about how Adalo could help. We realized that no-coders have a unique set of superpowers at the moment. We can create simple apps that can help connect others and help save some of our favorite local businesses.

To encourage these types of apps, we’ve teamed up with NuCode to run ‘The #NoCodeConnectsUs Challenge’. Because we’re all connected by no-code and no-code has the power to connect everyone.

Oh yeah, one final note... the more people that make enter the larger the prize. With a chance for one lucky winner to lifetime access to Adalo Pro!

Enter the Challenge!

New Features

🌎 Maps

One of our most requested features is finally here! Sorry it took us a tad longer than we wanted but we were busy making it work natively for iOS, Android, & the web!

With our maps you can create a map with just a single location or add an interactive map with multiple pins. You can also allow your users to filter your maps and add their own pins by adding location names or specific addresses.

Finally, we’ve got all the styles you could want. Google has an amazing no-code map builder that our maps work perfectly with. So you can style them to your heart's content.

Check out our help guide for the full details.

⚡ Conditional Actions

If you’re familiar with our change visibility feature where you can make any component show or hide based on a certain set of criteria, this new feature is a lot like that but for actions.

So you can now set actions to only happen under specific conditions. ‘i.e. Admin users go to this screen! All other users go to that screen!’ This makes branching & complex workflows a lot easier.

▶️ On Demand Publishing

In the past, whenever you wanted a new iOS or Android version of your app to publish, you’d have to email us and then we’d send you the new file. Now this process is completely automated.

It’s a game-changer for us and for you all. It’s now easier than ever for you to make small changes to your apps and push them out to app stores.

We’ve got a help doc for publishing to the Apple App Store and one for Google Play.

🌐 Custom Web Domains for PWAs

Just like with our web apps, you can now set your own website for your mobile app.

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👯 New Share Page

Shiny new design for your app ready to share with the world! It’s also got QR codes so it’s easy for everyone to install your mobile app to their home screens.

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💾 Download and Upload Data (with relationships!)

Want a spreadsheet of your Adalo data? Mash that download button. Want to transfer data from some other source? Upload away.

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🔀 Sorting Options in Form Drop-downs

Whether you want to make them go from A to Z or 1 to infinity, it’s all possible now.

What's Up Next?

⚡ Custom Actions

Click a button, trigger an action to happen in a different API. It’s a little bit like Zapier but inside of Adalo.

🏬 Component Marketplace

Any developers wanna join our alpha and build some custom components?? Email us at hello@adalo.com

Upvote New Features!

App of the Month

🌙 Moonifest

Easily one of the most beautiful apps we’ve seen. Shout out to Samantha for her amazing design skillz.

Her Moonifest app is your guide to manifesting using the energy of the 8 moon phases. Start with an intention and watch as you awaken your goddess energy, strengthen your intuition, and attract your desires effortlessly! It’s available on iOS & Android.

P.s. She’s a UX strategist so if you want to work with check out her website!

Start Manifesting!

Tutorials & Help Guides

Tutorials & Courses from Our Community

Patrick Ford made an incredible 2 part tutorial on how to use the Pixabay API to Dynamically Search for Images in Adalo
Sebastian Hoffman made an entire course on Udemy on how to Build Your MVP in 1 Day with Adalo!
Michael Gill’s new eBook "Maker Minions: 101 Automations for Makers, Side Hustlers, and Entrepreneurs" is coming out 4/8. Get it now for 50% off!

New Help Guides

We try our best to make everything as easy as possible, but we realize that sometimes help guides are well... super helpful! Here are some of the latest guides our amazing Customer Experience team has put together for you!

Learn how to connect your app’s database to Airtable
Crank up the volume and embed video or audio files into your app
Clicking everywhere takes a lot of time. Become a pro with all of our keyboard shortcuts ‍
Because sharing is caring, see how to make multiple Adalo apps share the same database.

See All Resources

News, Helpful Links, & Fun Stuff

No-Code News

Product Hunt’s Work From Home Maker’s Festival

Product Hunt announced their Maker’s Festival Work From Home Edition. It’s very similar to our #NoCodeConnectsUs Challenge except it’s also open for developers to code their own solutions. It would be awesome to submit your Adalo apps there as well!

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Step Up Your Design Game

The Rules Every UX Designer Should Know

From color to contrast to choosing the correct words this article’s got it all!

Why did Lyft put the search bar on the bottom?

It’s always a risky move when you break a design convention… but learn why Lyft’s designers decided it was worth it.

A world where only 0.3% of people can create software is a world missing 99.7% of its potential.