Show HN: Retool Mobile

  • I really love the breadth of Internal Admin tools that are available today, however, I feel like none has an even minimal support to proper dev flows like dev/staging/production or a way to synchronize releases between our own Backend API and the admin pages.

  • you emailed me yesterday about a full-time frontend position, but made no mention of salary ranges. I'm not looking for a job right now, but if i were I'd want to know that up front so i could decide if it was worth my time. just a tip if you're trying to poach folks.

  • I've been playing around with SwiftUI recently and the developer experience and tooling make me miss my VSCode set up with copilot

    With this it looks like I could keep the same developer experience and build something quickly!

  • I’m trying to understand, and forgive me, maybe the core Retool product explains this better—how is this different from something like Capacitor/Ionic or React Native?

  • Why do these things always fail? Is it because exec suite isn’t aware they exist?

    There are quite a few low/no code solutions now, but I can’t even recall using one of these, every serious company still seems to go native.

  • Ive used retool for 5 years now and the new addition of Retool Mobile has been extremely useful for us in the past few months. The scanner and the camera components are especially useful and I think can have many potential uses in the near future for us.

  • When will retool be able to do this for native desktop apps? Especially for Windows. Otherwise, you are leaving 2+ billion active devices off the table

  • Hi! Retool on-prem user here ... is this going to be available for us too? Seems like we get everything fairly delayed which is a real bummer :/

  • I watched the demo video - there seem to be some UI jitters with the list view when you click 'update' - you can see it at 4:25-4:26.

    Is that the list going blank for a fraction of a second? If so, that is jarring - is this a limitation of React Native or what's going on there?

  • Is it me or does the person presenting look uncanny, almost like a 3D avatar?

  • What does “Zebra” mean in this context?

    > Native mobile components include a barcode scanner, camera, NFC reader, geolocation tracker, signature pad, and Zebra integration to allow you to fully enable your field teams to operate efficiently.

    The only mention of Zebra in the docs is for zebra striping table rows/lists.

    Or does it mean Zebra printer for label printing via ZPL?

    My wheelhouse is label printer integration, so I’m naturally drawn to printer vocabulary.

    If anyone is in the market for a zebra label printer design app and API based rendering, check out my app at https://label.live/

  • Well done team! Cant' wait for a map component!

  • As the founder of one of the open-source alternative [1] to Retool, I thought of doing PWA for our apps to be fit for mobile but this is next level. Congrats to the whole retool team.

    I legit think with your new workflows you are gonna kill the non open-source competition (Airplane, Superblocks) and now the question remains if being an open-source alternative is strong enough of a differentiation for the rest of us. Our case is slightly different as we bet on our open runtime and advanced workflows to serve different enterprise needs but needless to say, I wish you guys were not so good.

    [1]: https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill

  • I wonder how long before Apple blocks this. They seem to be pretty hostile to these types of apps and even limited Expo's ability to load projects on iOS if you weren't the direct developer[1].

    Curious if Retool got explicit permission to do this.

    [1] https://blog.expo.dev/upcoming-limitations-to-ios-expo-clien...

  • I'm a prolific user of all things Retool. We are automating away our more mundane tasks with Workflows, but with Mobile we're redefining how our business is running. We have more visibility over our field sales, more control in our warehouses and ambitions to do more.

  • Anyone else has problems viewing the video in landscape mode on mobile?

    As soon as I turn the phone, the video exits fullscreen mode and the part showing Ankur floats above the controls on the right side of the video player so I can't reenter fullscreen

  • This seems to be a marketing page, are docs or tech details available anywhere? I couldn't find how it actually works without creating an account.

  • This feels like the wrong use for Show HN, no?

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