Changelog

The Retool Mobile app now includes a side drawer to access frequently used apps. Users can also open Retool Mobile and automatically launch the most recently used app.

You can now configure app linking event handlers to enable users to navigate from one mobile app to another. In the App editor, configure an event handler with the **Navigation **action, the Open app method, and select the app to use.

You can now set a width-factor on containers to create more complex layouts in Retool Mobile.

We’ve added the ability to work with resources and apps that have multiple environments in Retool Mobile using our new environment switcher

We’re excited to launch a new version of the Retool Inspector! By reducing clutter and improving consistency across components, we’ve made it easy to find important properties when you need them most.

With this re-design, we're adding:

• A new add-ons section
• Progressive disclosure for list editors
• Advanced panels
• More consistent property grouping

New add-ons section​

We’ve added a new section under “Content” called “Add-ons”. These add-ons include properties that were formerly known as “Adornments”, such as prefix icons, suffix text, and tooltips.

We’ve also split some components up into their constituent parts and are adding them to “Add-ons” as well. Each of these add-ons has its own properties and corresponding Inspector view (e.g. the Label add-on below). These add-ons are also visible on the editor canvas and can be directly clicked to open up the right panel.

Progressive disclosure for list editors​

Currently, we use the list editor pattern for adding event handlers. We're now applying this same pattern to Add-ons, Validation rules, and Styles. This hides away properties that have not yet been set, but can be added on an as-needed basis. You can add any of these properties by clicking the plus button next to each list editor’s header.

Advanced panels​

Instead of showing every property in each section, we now hide less frequently used settings inside of an advanced panel. You can access these properties by clicking on the advanced button in the header of each section.

Consistent property grouping​

Each component now has the same three sections, which makes it easier to find similar properties across different components:

• Content: Data that gets piped into the component, as well as any add-ons.
• Interaction: Event handlers, validation rules, and any properties that impact the behavior of the component.
• Appearance: Properties that change the look of a component, such as layout, style, and show/hide toggles.

We're excited to see what you think! Feel free to send any feedback to jessicasun@retool.com.

A line of sight into your business operations is critical to decision-making as you scale. With Usage Analytics, Retool admins have a single place to:

• Monitor all app and user adoption.
• Gain insight into aggregate usage to effectively manage teams and apps.

Usage Analytics is available to all Cloud and Self-hosted customers on the Enterprise plan. You can access it in your Organization settings.

Usage Analytics for Self-hosted deployments requires Self-hosted Retool v2.113 or later. Check out the docs to enable Usage Analytics.

The Response block in Retool Workflows allows for synchronous webhook runs. Workflows can now return data as a webhook response at any time during a run or upon completion.

The Response block works in conjunction with the Webhook trigger and enables you to configure your own responses. You can specify the HTTP status code and a JSON response body to return, which can include any data from the workflow. For example, use a workflow to look up a customer's mailing address based on their email, use multiple blocks to return different types of data depending on execution logic, or even use a Response block as an error handler to signal that something went wrong.

Response blocks are represented as a new block type; just drag out a block, select Response in the context menu, and your webhook will now wait until the Response block is executed to return. Check out the docs to learn more.

Introducing the Smart Block, bringing the power of GPT-4 and AI into Retool Workflows.

Treat the Smart Block like a natural programming step in any series of tasks you want to automate: just drag a Smart Block onto the canvas, identify the dataset you want to pass in with your request, and complete your prompt with a set of natural language instructions. Then, just run the block and return your data for use in your automations: summarize hundreds of rows of raw product data, create entirely custom systems to classify or filter requests, or even execute AI-authored code––all in Retool.

The Smart Block is free to use and available now for all cloud organizations. To learn more, read the full announcement, or check out the docs.

Offline mode in Retool Mobile enables users to continue performing read and write actions whenever the internet connection is lost.

Reads: Screens and parts of the app that users have visited while online are cached and available when the device is offline.

Writes: Users can continue performing write actions with cached data. Once the connection is restored, Retool Mobile syncs the changes back to the server.

You can now run Retool Mobile apps on Zebra Android devices to utilize Zebra scanners and hardware sensors.