How to make view mobile friendly?

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Hello dear community, I have a web app looking like that, and I'm wondering how I can make it mobile-friendly. What I mean by that is that when you open that from your mobile phone, the table would shrink or just be responsible to accommodate the mobile user so they will not have to struggle. Right now, anything you open on your mobile phone you cannot use. How can I deal with that?

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hello,

I haven’t found any mean to do that.

I have a lot of apps that look like yours and when i need to have a mobile-friendly version i try to think again about interface.

Tables are the red flag … if you have a lot of columns, you’ll need to slide, and you can’t “freeze” columns to keep an eye on the desired column like in a sheet.

Sorry not to answer, i just want to share that i have the same problems.

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Hey there, thank you for joining this discussion. Yeah, that's a real problem, and it is highly unfortunate that there is no proper solution to this issue, and I also do not know what to do with that. I hope there is some way to at least optionally show a different block where it is a mobile view, but I haven't found such a setting.

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you can have different blocks, with different parameters in mobile and app view but based on the same data.

I use key-value on mobile when i can or put a new table with less columns that open a modal when clicked to view the entire data.

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Can you share your techniques on how you can show different things for mobile users versus computer users?

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I develop all my app in desktop mode.

Then i choose what to view in mobile by going in Appearance menu. You must share one element to unable the mobile view. Then you can switch to mobile view on the left near the zoom display.
When in mobile view you have all your data and requests and you can choose another way to display it than the desktop one.

I can make screenshots if you need.

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My experience build mobile apps with Retool aren't the best ones, sadly… Usually I had to review the whole interface or even the usability, what’s been working for me is to creating a downloadable report.