Well, I hope it becomes easier. That could be through better documentation and tutorials and better plugins and a lot of other ways. Doesn’t mean it has to become simpler or dumbed down.
And to think that those other ones will not become smarter and better and that we in bubble land will always have the best solution for the best price and we should avoid making it better for new users sounds short sighted.
Software always becomes cheaper and better over time.
For example I just found convertify that’ll put it into IOS and Android files you can just upload, for $129. When I first started looking it was almost $1000. Eventually this stuff will be close to free, if not free.
There are many threads in this forum are asking about how to push an app to the app store, many of them not answered in any sort of satisfactory way. I don’t think keeping things hard benefits anyone and is the opposite of what software is for.
We all want things to get easier and more efficient (That’s the point of this thread) and Bubble has consistently gotten better, easier, and more powerful over the years.
In the Go To Page action, I’d love to see two additions:
Path
It’s weird that we actually can’t go to a path without using a link and reloading the page. Adding a multi-level path to the Go To Page action would solve this.
(using plugins is an option, but Bubble doesn’t recognize that the path has changed in those cases, so you can’t use it for SEO purposes such as Meta Title/Description)
Maintain parameters
The Go To Page action resets all parameters unless you specify that they should change. A Maintain parameters checkbox that simply kept all parameters in the URL at their current value would be handy.
Editing positions is extremely difficult, especially on smaller items.
The red line between objects is handy, but it disappears the second you start moving the box.
With objects that are only a few pixels from each other, editing is nearly impossible. Overlapping red distances, its just really hard to manipulate.
Zooming in using ctrl + in your browser or mac’s built in magnifier isn’t effective because when you click on objects, it opens the controls for it, moving the cursor to that box.
I think a position editing mode would be so incredibly helpful. Where you can easily move boxes around, compare them between each other, measure distances, do general look and feel type tweaks, but with the ability to magnify the page, see how it looks rendered… Sort of like the responsiveness editor.
The app I’m working on took a only half day to build out all the functionality but I’m spending days moving these objects around, squinting, and generally screwing around getting it to match the XD file I was provided. It just shouldn’t be this hard.
There should be a way to alter distances by typing in numbers. It’s 61 from one object to another? Should be able to change that to for example, 45.
Text disappearing because the box is ‘too small’ is problematic.
And where it says ‘Current Cells’ Data’s blah blah’ - its just too long and ultimately not helpful because they all start with ‘current something’. I’d greatly prefer if it showed the name we gave the component. Way more useful.
Example:
All those boxes contain data, but I can’t see it without clicking on them. Hovering and getting some data would be so helpful.
I think this would solve all of the alignment issues:
If when you clicked an object, like you see here (not double click, which brings up its window) if a different window opened up somewhere very close that showed the object’s name, its position and size, and let you enter new positioning information that would be powerful. If it also showed distance to all the objects around it somehow with lines that stayed while you used the arrow keys to adjust your box, that would be a godsend. If you could zoom in that would be so very helpful.
The Conditions on a Workflow or Element could be ‘Stacked’ on top of eachother instead of one long paragraph. Allowing you to:
Simply read the conditions
Re-order the statements (drag and Drop)
Copy and Paste a single statement (can only do the whole paragraph at the moment)
Very clearly switch And/Or statements with a Dropdown
@gf_wolfer Love this suggestion - +1. My “only when” statements look just like that all over my app - And I don’t care how straightforward it is, it is incredibly daunting to look at that giant jumble of conditionals when you’re trying to track down issues!
I’d like to push this onto the suggestions list. A way to manipulate group parents/children from the sidebar would be super handy. I dunno about ya’ll but I have lots of nested groups, especially when trying to get responsive RGs working nicely. I found this excellent suggestion from the past:
Lock an element inside a group. Sometimes when you drag an elemenet, is virtually impossible to not “lose it” outside of the group it belongs to, especially if it’s big. An option that keeps the element inside the group it belongs to would be handy.
Easier filtering on date. If you want to filter a certain day you have to change minutes and hours. It would be nice if you just can have the following statement.
Datum is in Date/TimePicker Start’s current day.
