February Recap: New courses, AI integrations, PIN emails fixed

NoCodeAndy
Sat, 08 Mar 2025 00:34:34 +0000
Archived Announcements

Hello Gliders!

February was another very busy month.

We published new courses on Udemy and Glide University; added AI capabilities with Pinecone, OpenGraph and Gemini integrations; fixed PIN email deliverability issues; and started Classic Apps migration tests. (More to come on that soon.)

On the community side, we saw a bunch of new member contributions, including more tutorials, prompts for AI custom components, and project demos.

Read on for all the details.

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Free Course: How To Build An App Without Code

Our new course on Udemy takes you through the fundamentals of no-code development to solve business problems with custom software. You’ll learn how to structure your apps with data; design professional user interfaces; automate workflows with AI; and integrate with external tools.

https://www.udemy.com/course/build-an-app-without-code/

Now Available: Experts Accelerator Sessions

We held our first Experts Accelerator cohort last fall with 100+ up-and-coming Glide Experts. Each week we had special guests join us to share their insights.

Those sessions are now available in an on-demand Glide University course.

P.S. This course pairs perfectly with our Glide certifications!

Community Challenge: Field Apps

Field apps let you capture, track, and manage data while on the job site. They’re used by teams in construction, agriculture, production, sales, service, support, and more.

Kudos to @mstam2, @aditya_pandu_perdana, and @Haqyw1 for taking on the challenge to build and share their Glide app demos. I’ll be in touch about your rewards.

Community Challenge: Build a Field App Archived Announcements

This month we’re challenging you to build a field app in Glide. Field apps let you capture, track, and manage data while on the job site. They’re used by teams in construction, agriculture, production, sales, service, support, and more. Use Case Glide’s journey started with mobile apps, and adaptive, mobile-first interfaces continue to be core to Glide. In fact, with the launch of Workflows, field apps built in Glide have never been so powerful. For example, an HVAC technician may…

Fixed: Deliverability issues with PIN emails

Our engineers have been hard at work to address the deliverability issues with PIN emails. Those should be resolved as of this week, and your users should now receive PIN emails without issue.

February Changelog

Features added

Call API now has advanced error handling options and returns response status

Added Pinecone integration for new, advanced AI capabilities

Added Google Gemini AI integration for code execution and advanced reasoning

Added OpenGraph.io support for extracting website metadata

New Spinner component available to indicate loading or waiting

New Multiple Texts column that allows multiple roles for each user

More accessible and theme-relevant color palettes for Charts

Allow the Query column to query a single row

Ability to send PIN emails from your Microsoft Outlook account

Bugs fixed

Fixed issue with duplicating apps built on Google Sheets

Fixed issue with Discord integration incorrectly reporting errors

Fixed issue with Array loops crashing when its value is not defined

Fixed issue with hover state overriding focus on text inputs

Fixed keyboard navigation in dropdown choice components

Make and Zapier no longer listed as experimental integrations (they’re stable!)

Popups in the Map component now close automatically

More clearly indicated “camera only” options for input components

Offline mode should now render buttons as disabled where appropriate

Various UI improvements for layouts, colour, and styling

More from Glide and the community

Top 5 tools and platforms for building AI agents

The ultimate guide to AI for sales

@John_Romano wants help building an AI publishing assistant

@Robert_Petitto shared a live build of a raffle prize selection system

Bob also showed us how to pull website data into Glide via OpenGraph

@iPomidor built Wallet for managing personal finances

@MattLB shared a prompt template for calling actions from the AI custom component

@MaximeBaker has a new AI custom component prompt for leaderboards

@Gideon_Lahav_Busines shared a new tutorial for dates and dynamic calendars

Plus tutorials for compressing images and searching + filtering in Big Tables

Have something to add?

Share what you’re working on in Project Showcase

Share helpful tutorials, tips, and tools in Community Resources

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