# šŸ’» Development **URL:** https://help.nextcloud.com/c/dev/11.md [Latest](https://help.nextcloud.com/latest.md) Ā· [Categories](https://help.nextcloud.com/categories.md) Ā· [Tags](https://help.nextcloud.com/tags.md) --- ## [Pausing new translation project requests on Transifex (apps are still welcome)](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/pausing-new-translation-project-requests-on-transifex-apps-are-still-welcome/247503)
**Author:** [@Anna](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/Anna)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [July 31, 2026, 9:51am UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/pausing-new-translation-project-requests-on-transifex-apps-are-still-welcome/247503 "2026-07-31T09:51:06Z")
Hi everyone, Quick version: weā€™re pausing new requests to add projects to the Nextcloud Transifex org for now. This has no effect on the App Store, and nothing thatā€™s already translated is going anywhere. If you open aā€¦ --- ## [Pinned actions enforced in Nextcloud GitHub org](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/pinned-actions-enforced-in-nextcloud-github-org/239414)
**Author:** [@nickvergessen](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/nickvergessen)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [February 2, 2026, 2:46pm UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/pinned-actions-enforced-in-nextcloud-github-org/239414 "2026-02-02T14:46:04Z")
Pinned actions GitHub added an option to enforce pinned actions and we are going to enable it end of the week. If you are using the templates from the workflow template repo, there is nothing todo (apart from a regular ā€¦ --- ## [Good tutorials to learn the fundamentals Nextcloud builds upon](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/good-tutorials-to-learn-the-fundamentals-nextcloud-builds-upon/156316)
**Author:** [@max-nextcloud](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/max-nextcloud)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [February 9, 2025, 6:33am UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/good-tutorials-to-learn-the-fundamentals-nextcloud-builds-upon/156316 "2025-02-09T06:33:40Z")
Programming languages (PHP, Javascript, Rust, Python) For improving your programming in a variety of languages there is one place I can recommend: Itā€™s a non profit community that builds and maintains an awesome set oā€¦ --- ## [Overview of all tutorials](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/overview-of-all-tutorials/155409)
**Author:** [@Daphne](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/Daphne)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [January 29, 2026, 11:43am UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/overview-of-all-tutorials/155409 "2026-01-29T11:43:27Z")
Hello Nextcloud friends, As part of the Nextcloud developer programme we are developing a series of tutorials. These tutorials will guide you through setting up your development environment, to creating your first apps. ā€¦ --- ## [Nextcloud Developer API](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/nextcloud-developer-api/56757)
**Author:** [@jospoortvliet](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/jospoortvliet)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [March 6, 2023, 12:26pm UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/nextcloud-developer-api/56757 "2023-03-06T12:26:57Z")
You can find all our documentation linked on https://nextcloud.com/developer Note that most of our documentation is in github, see the ā€˜edit on githubā€™ button in the top-right of every page: help improving it is very weā€¦ --- ## [Hello developers & designers!](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/hello-developers-designers/18)
**Author:** [@LukasReschke](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/LukasReschke)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [November 16, 2016, 8:28pm UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/hello-developers-designers/18 "2016-11-16T20:28:55Z")
This category is for topics related to hacking & designing on Nextcloud: submitting pull requests, UX design, configuring development environments, coding conventions, and so forth. Please do not ask any support questioā€¦ --- ## [Build recent maps version](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/build-recent-maps-version/251138)
**Author:** [@TheRaven500](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/TheRaven500)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [October 23, 2026, 10:48am UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/build-recent-maps-version/251138 "2026-10-23T10:48:57Z")
It is just a simple and maybe dumb question: How can i build the recent version of maps? Before i just cloned the git repository and made a ā€œmakeā€ inside and all was fine. But now it tells me ā€œthere is no rule for makeā€¦ --- ## [Process on app-certificate-requests is very slow](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/process-on-app-certificate-requests-is-very-slow/248196)
**Author:** [@zomtec2311](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/zomtec2311)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [October 21, 2026, 6:32am UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/process-on-app-certificate-requests-is-very-slow/248196 "2026-10-21T06:32:55Z")
I noticed that there have been only sporadic certificates for about 2 weeks. In the last 8 days, only 2 pull requests have been merged, while since then about 17 apps are waiting in the pending list. It would be extremā€¦ --- ## [How to turn a markdown (.md) file into a fancy home page?](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/how-to-turn-a-markdown-md-file-into-a-fancy-home-page/239090)
**Author:** [@daaniel](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/daaniel)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [October 12, 2026, 12:17pm UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/how-to-turn-a-markdown-md-file-into-a-fancy-home-page/239090 "2026-10-12T12:17:24Z")
When you make a nice formatted markdown file and you use a sharing link to open it in private/incognito view, it almost looks like a website. Could this be a feature in NextCloud? There is already an online app where yoā€¦ --- ## [NC as basis for an app to manage club memberships (extension of NC user profile in an app)](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/nc-as-basis-for-an-app-to-manage-club-memberships-extension-of-nc-user-profile-in-an-app/52498)
**Author:** [@fridge](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/fridge)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [October 12, 2026, 6:15am UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/nc-as-basis-for-an-app-to-manage-club-memberships-extension-of-nc-user-profile-in-an-app/52498 "2026-10-12T06:15:17Z")
Dear Nextcloud community, I would like to write an app to manage memberships of my sports club. Basically, for each member we need to save data like name, role (e.g. trainer, player, ā€¦), email, phone number, etc. This iā€¦ --- ## [Access of \\OC in tests acceptable?](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/access-of-oc-in-tests-acceptable/250704)
**Author:** [@christianlupus](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/christianlupus)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 8, 2026, 10:05am UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/access-of-oc-in-tests-acceptable/250704 "2026-10-08T10:05:21Z")
Hello there, I am currently considering reworking my tests (of the cookbook app) and extending them in a more in-depth fashion. More precisely, I plan to introduce some migrations in the future that need to actually migā€¦ --- ## [Nextcloud Desktop for macOS appears frozen on startup while opening sync journal SQLite database on slow 4 KiB reads](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/nextcloud-desktop-for-macos-appears-frozen-on-startup-while-opening-sync-journal-sqlite-database-on-slow-4-kib-reads/250359)
**Author:** [@evanmac](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/evanmac)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [October 2, 2026, 7:20am UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/nextcloud-desktop-for-macos-appears-frozen-on-startup-while-opening-sync-journal-sqlite-database-on-slow-4-kib-reads/250359 "2026-10-02T07:20:53Z")
Hello, I am reporting a recurring issue with Nextcloud Desktop Client on macOS. The client can appear completely frozen during startup while opening/checking the sync journal SQLite database. The process is not crasheā€¦ --- ## [Multi-tenancy Global Config ā€” loading per-domain $CONFIG on a single Nextcloud instance](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/multi-tenancy-global-config-loading-per-domain-config-on-a-single-nextcloud-instance/249328)
**Author:** [@henriquemohr](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/henriquemohr)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [October 1, 2026, 2:50pm UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/multi-tenancy-global-config-loading-per-domain-config-on-a-single-nextcloud-instance/249328 "2026-10-01T14:50:22Z")
Hi everyone, Weā€™d like to share a module weā€™re developing at LibreCode: \[multitenancy-global-config\]( GitHub - LibreCodeCoop/multitenancy-global-config: Multi-tenant global config loader for Nextcloud: resolves $CONFIG ā€¦ --- ## [Is the backup app still in development? Or an alternative?](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/is-the-backup-app-still-in-development-or-an-alternative/250055)
**Author:** [@Dr.Proton](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/Dr.Proton)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [September 28, 2026, 10:01am UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/is-the-backup-app-still-in-development-or-an-alternative/250055 "2026-09-28T10:01:38Z")
I opened an issue on the rep here: Have I missed on the basic backup function for Nextcloud? And yes, I do not want to learn and teach my family members to restore single files from an backup via borg or some terminaā€¦ --- ## [Search engine with differents tags of photo](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/search-engine-with-differents-tags-of-photo/250092)
**Author:** [@Frederiiiic](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/Frederiiiic)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [September 28, 2026, 7:26am UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/search-engine-with-differents-tags-of-photo/250092 "2026-09-28T07:26:58Z")
Hi there! Iā€™m using Nextcloud til some years now, i have my photos synced with the app souvenir. To find them back easly i usually add some tags. For exemple ā€œInvoiceā€ and ā€œCarā€ in a picture of an invoice. Iā€™ve just beeā€¦ --- ## [Passwords for provisioning API](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/passwords-for-provisioning-api/250070)
**Author:** [@bartli](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/bartli)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [September 27, 2026, 5:38pm UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/passwords-for-provisioning-api/250070 "2026-09-27T17:38:12Z")
ā–¶ Summary of the issue you are facing: Can the provisioning API be used with APP Passwords? I tried but got error messages. If I use the admins interactive password, the API does the job. Is this intentional behaviour? ā€¦ --- ## [Rethinking App Store Guardrails & Developer Tooling for App Submission](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/rethinking-app-store-guardrails-developer-tooling-for-app-submission/249940)
**Author:** [@misc](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/misc)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 25, 2026, 3:26pm UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/rethinking-app-store-guardrails-developer-tooling-for-app-submission/249940 "2026-09-25T15:26:39Z")
I hope these suggestions are helpful, and inspire both conversation and action! The barrier of entry for creating a Nextcloud app has never been lower. Over the last couple years there has been a massive increase in thā€¦ --- ## [Looking for Co-Devs to verify my work](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/looking-for-co-devs-to-verify-my-work/249873)
**Author:** [@scheppi2610](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/scheppi2610)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2026, 1:43pm UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/looking-for-co-devs-to-verify-my-work/249873 "2026-09-24T13:43:35Z")
Dear Devs, during last months i developed a new app called Gantt-Projects. Now I would like to increase quality of that app. To explain the situation: I am using Claude code to generate most of the code. I frequently lā€¦ --- ## [Hardware based thumbnail generation (nvidia)](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/hardware-based-thumbnail-generation-nvidia/133337)
**Author:** [@shoaib42](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/shoaib42)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2026, 12:08am UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/hardware-based-thumbnail-generation-nvidia/133337 "2026-09-23T00:08:46Z")
Hey! Iā€™v been using nexcloud close to a year on my tiny Nvidia Jetson Nano. Been ok so far. The reason for my post is the about the preview generator. My question is how would I go about doing the following. Not generā€¦ --- ## [UI is For Users & Waffle Menus are for Diners](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/ui-is-for-users-waffle-menus-are-for-diners/246985)
**Author:** [@LibertyTalk](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/LibertyTalk)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [September 19, 2026, 10:09pm UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/ui-is-for-users-waffle-menus-are-for-diners/246985 "2026-09-19T22:09:53Z")
Dear design developers, Iā€™ve run the self-hosted Nextcloud server & desktop client since before it was even named NextCloud. In production. Every day. So my hope is this lands as feedback from someone invested in the prā€¦ --- ## [How to modify the list view behavior in the calendar app](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/how-to-modify-the-list-view-behavior-in-the-calendar-app/179454)
**Author:** [@martingwb](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/martingwb)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [September 18, 2026, 12:09pm UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/how-to-modify-the-list-view-behavior-in-the-calendar-app/179454 "2026-09-18T12:09:03Z")
Hi, I would like to ask if anyone could point me into the right direction regarding modifying the code of the calendar app to display more than one month in the list view. I tried a few things and was able to modify somā€¦ --- ## [Share via Email with OTP](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/share-via-email-with-otp/244538)
**Author:** [@modslv](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/modslv)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [September 18, 2026, 11:45am UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/share-via-email-with-otp/244538 "2026-09-18T11:45:56Z")
Hello, I am writing regarding development of modification which allows using One-Time Passcode (OTP) when sharing files via email. It was previously discussed, but those topics/issues are closed, therefore I am creating ā€¦ --- ## [Build iOS app on XCode to test on my device](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/build-ios-app-on-xcode-to-test-on-my-device/248492)
**Author:** [@CMigliorini](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/CMigliorini)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [September 16, 2026, 7:10am UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/build-ios-app-on-xcode-to-test-on-my-device/248492 "2026-09-16T07:10:16Z")
Hello, Iā€™m willing to submit a PR for the iOS app. I use XCode 16. I would like to test my modifications on my own device. Project opens, dependencies load, but build fails with Showing Recent Messages /nextcloud-ios/Nā€¦ --- ## [Betrio ERP for craftsmen and a probably simple App Store question](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/betrio-erp-for-craftsmen-and-a-probably-simple-app-store-question/248467)
**Author:** [@SchreinereiReinhardt](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/SchreinereiReinhardt)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [September 14, 2026, 3:28pm UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/betrio-erp-for-craftsmen-and-a-probably-simple-app-store-question/248467 "2026-09-14T15:28:01Z")
Hi everyone, Iā€™m AndrĆ©, a carpenter from Germany and the developer of Betrio, a small ERP app for Nextcloud. Betrio actually started just for our own company. Weā€™ve been using it for quite a while now for customers, prā€¦ --- ## [Nextcloud 33 large-folder performance improvements and picker fixes ā€” looking for maintainer feedback](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/nextcloud-33-large-folder-performance-improvements-and-picker-fixes-looking-for-maintainer-feedback/249112)
**Author:** [@Josh\_D](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/Josh_D)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [September 12, 2026, 4:54pm UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/nextcloud-33-large-folder-performance-improvements-and-picker-fixes-looking-for-maintainer-feedback/249112 "2026-09-12T16:54:49Z")
Hi everyone, I run Nextcloud 33.0.7.1 and have a folder containing roughly 26,500 entries. Browsing it was very slow, and I also encountered freezing and problems choosing a destination when moving folders. I developedā€¦ --- ## [Question about FilesMetadata code in Nextcloud 34.0.4](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/question-about-filesmetadata-code-in-nextcloud-34-0-4/249187)
**Author:** [@jhon2323](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/jhon2323)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 11, 2026, 3:11pm UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/question-about-filesmetadata-code-in-nextcloud-34-0-4/249187 "2026-09-11T15:11:48Z")
The Basics Nextcloud Server version: 34.0.4.1 Operating system and version: Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS Web server and version: Nginx Reverse proxy and version: None PHP version: 8.3 Database: PostgreSQL Is this the fā€¦ --- ## [Import von Kontakten mit UID](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/import-von-kontakten-mit-uid/249122)
**Author:** [@mtmayr](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/mtmayr)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 10, 2026, 4:54am UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/import-von-kontakten-mit-uid/249122 "2026-09-10T04:54:56Z")
Liebes Nextcloud Team, Ich verwende seit 10 Jahren Nextcloud-Kontakte mit einer externen Datenbankquelle. Diese Datenbank exportiert mir regelmƤƟig eine VCF-Datei, die ich dann in verschiedene AdressbĆ¼cher importiere. Wā€¦ --- ## [How are ratings in the app store calculated ā€“ and shouldn't old ratings deteriorate?](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/how-are-ratings-in-the-app-store-calculated-and-shouldnt-old-ratings-deteriorate/141254)
**Author:** [@nursoda](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/nursoda)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [September 9, 2026, 11:07am UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/how-are-ratings-in-the-app-store-calculated-and-shouldnt-old-ratings-deteriorate/141254 "2026-09-09T11:07:40Z")
Up until tonight, I saw only three ratings (with text) in the app I maintain. The three visible were ā€œgoodā€. Nevertheless, the overall app rating was ā€œneutralā€. So I asked two of my dev team members to also rate it ā€œgoodā€¦ --- ## [Best ways to handle the migration of old releases in the appstore](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/best-ways-to-handle-the-migration-of-old-releases-in-the-appstore/248950)
**Author:** [@mdw](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/mdw)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 5, 2026, 10:47pm UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/best-ways-to-handle-the-migration-of-old-releases-in-the-appstore/248950 "2026-09-05T22:47:17Z")
I have an app in the appstore since all the way back in 2018. There are more than 100 releases over the years, all of which have been uploaded automatically by the build system. For a long time the pipeline simply pushedā€¦ --- ## [New tutorial: Develop your first Vue.js ExApp](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/new-tutorial-develop-your-first-vue-js-exapp/248833)
**Author:** [@edward](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/edward)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 1, 2026, 10:36pm UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/new-tutorial-develop-your-first-vue-js-exapp/248833 "2026-09-01T22:36:18Z")
Hello again, Nextclouders! We are excited to release our next tutorial to help developers get started making Nextcloud ExApps, this time with a Vue.js front-end component on top of the Python base! In this tutorial, weā€¦ [Next page](https://help.nextcloud.com/c/dev/11.md?page=1)