App update — Core 1.3.7 → 1.3.10: you build the screens, menus and tiles now

Four releases have landed since we last posted, and between them they change what this app is: you build its screens and its navigation now, rather than choosing from what we laid out.

You build the screens

Widget screens. The home screen used to be the only place widgets could live, in the only arrangement you got. Now you compose named screens — a "Community" sidebar, a staff dashboard, a getting-started page — each with its own widgets, order and audience rule, in Customize → Widget Screens. Point a menu item at one and it becomes a tab or a launcher tile, including the screen the app opens on.

Every nav element is a row, across four zones. The top icons, the tab bar, the launcher, and the strip across the top of the launcher are all sections you fill yourself. Add, remove, reorder, relabel, recolour, restrict by role — and drag a row from any zone into any other. Built-ins like Courses and Bookmarks can be removed and brought back, and a plugin update can't resurrect one you deliberately took out. Five free tab slots, no fixed core tabs.

A visual "+" picker replaces the old add-item form: every screen, add-on tile and widget screen drawn with the real icons and labels members will see. You pick a destination by recognising it, not by remembering a route.

Widgets that show your actual content

• Courses, Blog and Spaces are one full-featured widget each — any source (everything, a topic, what the member is enrolled in, or a hand-picked set) with any layout (hero, carousel, list, tiles).
• Four tile widgets — Tiles, List, Buttons and Chips — sharing one appearance contract, so a setting means the same thing everywhere. Tiles crop where you tell them to, tint themselves from their own artwork, and can carry a glyph.
• Content blocks — headings, rich text, images and banners, video and audio, galleries, spacers, a Call to Action card, a Members widget and a blockquote.
• A Community Menu widget — your website's sidebar, in the app, with real icons and unread counts.
• Point a link at your content by picking it, not by typing an address — a page, post, course, space, and now a Fluent Cart product. Rename it and the link keeps up; delete it and the row quietly goes.

The builder previews all of it with your real content, and reacts as you type.

Chat

• Reactions work exactly like the web — tap to add or remove, hold as many as you like. They sit inside the bubble and wrap instead of running off the edge, and reply, react and the message menu open on a long-press beside it.
• Reading back no longer throws you to the bottom. Reacting to an older message used to snap you to the end, and a message arriving from someone else pulled you down mid-read. Only your own actions move the list now.
• Blocking sticks. Block someone from a conversation, leave, come back — it stays blocked. It used to look undone while the server still refused every send.

Deep links across the whole community

A link to a space, a course, a lesson or a shared post now opens the app at the right place — from an email, a text, anywhere your site's address appears. Previously only member and notification links worked. Copy link comes with it, so a post shared between members opens in the app rather than a browser.

Greek — Ελληνικά

A third language alongside English and Spanish, and a complete one: every app string, every bundled module, and the server side too, so REST errors and push notification bodies arrive in Greek rather than dropping back to English mid-screen. Members pick it in Settings → Language.

Sign-in and sign-up

• Sign-in, sign-up and password recovery are styled and worded separately — own branding, own copy.
• Members agree to your terms when they sign in, with both pages linked. It appears only once you've published them.
• A closed sign-up can hide itself instead of showing a "Registration Closed" card — or keep the card, if it's a pause you mean to explain.

Also worth knowing

• Feed Links — the link row your web portal shows above the main feed, now in the app.
• The Courses tab switches between cards and a list, like Spaces, with you setting where it starts.
• The Spaces tab matches your website exactly, its display rules now yours to set.
• A web page in the tab bar behaves like a real tab.
• The pull-to-refresh scenes are drawn rather than painted — all ten, sharp at any size and aware of light and dark.
• Fixed: a reply answers whoever it replied to; a course in a space group shows up in that group; notifications open the post rather than the sender; videos play on hosts that check which site is asking; names with an apostrophe no longer show raw code; birthdays keep their date.

If you build your own app

• A Publishing tab collects the whole store listing in one screen — names, descriptions, keywords, categories, age rating, screenshots and release notes — reading what's already live and writing your changes back.
• All your apps on one screen, with build, submit, OTA, update-core and full release running across the fleet.
• Store screenshots and Play graphics rendered and uploaded from the dashboard, at the exact sizes each store demands.
• An App Review account, found or created and filled in where Apple needs it, plus a Video Test Kit so the demo recording never touches a real member.
• One App Store Connect key does everything Apple asks for — no Apple ID, no password, no 2FA code.

Plugin updates are available now — update TBC Community App and your add-ons on your site as usual. The app-side changes ride along with the next app-store release, which we'll post about when it clears review.