Adalo - 2024 and beyond

Hi James!

It would be awesome if you tell us what are the new features we have if we migrate the app. If it is better for you, you can tell more about that in our email equipocasaclick@gmail.com

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@KlicIT - yes, both from developers in our Adalo community and also from Adalo ourselves for free. Once we get past infrastructure and performance, our whole team frees up again to work on features and components and templates and bugs :slight_smile:

@Santiago Migration consists of running a script to migrate your apps from one set of infrastructure to another. Your app goes read-only for 1-5 minutes. We are also adding database optimizations to give you a further boost after migration is complete. We’re seeing 1000 record tables loading instantly :slight_smile: Email me (james.crennan@adalo.com) if you want those apps migrated–tell me which ones and please delete any apps that you no longer need.

@Gon13 You will receive 0 new features once you migrate. Your speed should at least 3x and you will gain far greater stability. Features will start rolling out once we complete the migration and get everyone’s apps running fast. Canny will become our roadmap at that point, starting with Deep Linking!

Best,
James

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This is a great step forward James, credit to yourself and your team for the hard work :blush:

Do users get notified when they are migrated over to the new infrastructure?

@james.crennan these are unbelievable steps forward and I really look forward to seeing the fruits of your labour !!

Curious to know, for those that use Xano, or alternative backend, will these infrastructure upgrades improve things on the front end (not apps with Adalo DB).

Keep up the great work and I really look forward to hearing about what’s in store :clap::ok_hand::raised_hands::fire:

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Hi all - we’ve just made another announcement over here

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have the same question actually. using xano for 2 of my apps. I think the caching feature would be great since I usually have to close my app and restart when I click the Back button.

Regarding performance with Xano - yes you will see an improvement. We’ve found that the number of JS files alone that are loaded into our builder are cause for latency, and we’ll be cutting them out with a view for speed. Caching will obviously improve things, and as I mentioned in my other announcement post, the performance of all applications whether built on Adalo or not will also be dependent on the layout complexity, how much logic is used on each screen, and so forth.

We’re leaning into this, starting with a tool that can analyze your application and assign it a performance score (0-100 with 100 being best). We’ll be releasing a guide to help increase your app speed, and have seen remarkable impact with relatively minor changes (i.e. swapping out a custom list for a simple list). My intent is to enable AI chat to guide everyone through building, or editing, with a view on performance, and creating a ‘pre-flight check’ to score your app before you publish. We just want to test, test, test to ensure we’re giving data to you backed by performance benchmarks. More on this soon.

In the meantime, we’re 20% through the infrastructure migration, which was undoubtedly the biggest, baddest blocker for most apps relating to performance speed. Certainly for stability (only a year ago, there were posts in these forums about data losses for 3 days. That’s now a thing of the past.)

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Thanks! Really looking forward to the changes.

Is it just me or the bugs in the editor’s text boxes have been fixed (after 5 years)?
Even little details like this make a big difference. Great work!

Congratulations on your appointment as the new CEO of Adalo! Your leadership marks an exciting chapter for the company, and I’m confident your vision and expertise will drive incredible growth and innovation. Wishing you great success in this new role!

Can I help somehow with it? Or suggest some stuff based on my customer’s request

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Adalo is very simple to build with and everyone wanting to use a nocode builder will not ignore adalo. But the problem is, no one can build a social media app on adalo because of the cost it comes with unless you are already a multimillion company due to the cost on actions. I can’t move from adalo and I am unable to stay in adalo due to this cost. it will be a privilege to me and many other users if billing will base on any other category other than actions. Please help us out. Thank you.

Please I am Andrews, a no code developer always wanting and praying for adalo to survive. Because, as far as Adalo is working, I can put food on my table, but my biggest headache is Adalo not providing unlimited actions in their price plan. Please help your users by doing something about it. Granting us this as users will assure our now and future work which is software development in adalo. I hope this resonates with you to consider us. Thank you for granting this request

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They’ve already said they’re working in improvements, upgrades which will include removing App Actions

All in good time

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@hommie I replied to you in my other annoucement thread, but app actions will be removed as a usage based charge (but will remain as a mechanism for your app building - just be completely free). And the logging of actions will stop, because that affects performance. When? Very soon! You won’t have to change pricing to use it.

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Hi all, sharing here that our CTO, Jason Gilmore, has just posted here about some speed updates that we’ve learned from our internal app speed testing–specifically the top 5 things you can do to significantly improve speed.

There are going to be many more updates to come as we start finalizing a number of performance improvements and tooling, which will fall under the Adalo side (which will get rolled out automatically) and on the builder side (and helping makers ensure the flexibility of the platform hasn’t led them down a path toward slow apps).

Excited for what is to come!

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Great to see the updates and improvements coming ahead - 2025 looks to be a positive year for Adalo and Software Development in general.

Looking forward to this!

I’d like to know if soon, us paying members can or will get access to market place items without having to pay for them individually? Is there a plan that you guys can work on for this? It seems many of the items I would personally need to use for an app would need quite a bit of what is in the market place but the pricing of each one can be costly. I also would love to know if we are able to eventually choose our nav bar icons. That would be nice, to see different designs/different sizes of icons and buttons.

You can just make custom nav bars, side bars, and other navigation components. Just use rectangles and small squared images - I’ve been doing that for years and it works great. I use flaticon.com to get the interface icons.