AMA: Apps + Marketplace Edition

[Taylor_Savage]

Hi everyone!

Lots of exciting announcements today on the Airtable Platform! For more information specifically about how this launch impacts developers - including updates to the Blocks SDK and how to submit an app to the marketplace - check out our post here.

We’ll be hosting a live Ask Me Anything (AMA) session in this thread on Thursday 9/17 at 10am PT, where a number of folks from our platform engineering team will be online to answer any developer-focused questions you might have related to building Apps and submitting to the Marketplace.

Feel free to begin posting questions here in advance! We’ll do our best to get to everything we can on Thursday.

See you there!

[kuovonne]

Thank you for publishing the read format for lookup fields! While this is such a small thing in the scope of all the news, it is really nice to have and easy to see the implications.

The other changes are so wide sweeping that they need time to digest.

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Also, the name “marketplace” implies that there would be apps for sale. However, the marketplace currently does not sell apps; it makes them widely available. Any financial transaction need to take place off platform. Care to comment on the the “marketplace” name and the ability to sell?

[Widgetic]

We’d like to second that. While Airtable might not get involved with the billing infrastructure, it would be helpful to allow us, authors, to make it clear for potential buyers what plans the app offers, and what each plan might cost.

Eg.
Free - x features
n/month - x+y features

[Justin_Barrett]

kuovonne:

Thank you for publishing the read format for lookup fields!

Where is this located?

[Jeremy_Oglesby]

@Justin_Barrett

github.com

Airtable/blocks/blob/master/packages/sdk/CHANGELOG.md

# Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/). This project
doesn't currently follow semantic versioning, but will once it reaches 1.0.0.

Not every commit needs to result in a change to this file (e.g. docs and chore commits). Every
commit that affects the code in a way that consumers might care about should include edits to the
'Unreleased' section though. Breaking changes should be prefixed with `**BREAKING:**`.

## [Unreleased](https://github.com/airtable/blocks/compare/@airtable/blocks@1.0.0...HEAD)

No changes.

## [1.0.0](https://github.com/airtable/blocks/compare/@airtable/blocks@0.0.55...@airtable/blocks@1.0.0) - 2020-09-14

-   **BREAKING:** The cell value format for lookup fields (`FieldType.MULTIPLE_LOOKUP_VALUES`) is
    now `Array<{linkedRecordId: RecordId, value: CellValue}>`
-   **BREAKING:** Remove `Record.primaryCellValue` and `Record.primaryCellValueAsString`, as well as

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[kuovonne]

Justin_Barrett:

Where is this located?

It’s a bit in the weeds of the sdk changelog.

[Richard_Sinn]

ICYMI - we’ve also linked to the breaking changes in a post here: Custom Blocks update: Apps, SDK v1.0.0, and more

[kuovonne]

Does Airtable have plans for a developers partner program?

[LukaszWiktor]

How can I register as an Airtable app developer? What’s the process to publish an app in the Marketplace?

[kuovonne]

I don’t think there currently is a method of registering as an Airtable app developer. (Hence my question about a developers partner program.)

Anyone with an Airtable account can just start developing. The instructions for publishing an app in the marketplace is here.