Arduino Cloud Gets a Dark Mode, Temporary Trash Can for Easy Undeletion, and More in New Update
No more blinding white at o-dark-hundred, no more fat-fingering what you're deleting, and less tab-swapping, Arduino promises.
The Arduino team has announced new updates to the Arduino Cloud browser-based development platform, bringing aesthetic improvements like a new dark mode and functionality gains like a way to undo deletions — plus a completely overhauled Thing page.
"We've been working on some updates to Arduino Cloud that honestly make the whole experience better," the Arduino team says of the newly-launched version of its cloud platform. "Dark theme? Finally. A way to undo deletes? Yes. And we completely rebuilt the Thing Page so you don’t have to jump between a million tabs anymore. As always, we're committed to continuously improving Arduino Cloud based on your actual, ever-evolving needs. These updates represent our vision for a more intuitive, forgiving, and powerful platform – but they are also the result of essential feedback and collaboration from the community."
Perhaps the most visible of the new features is also the least impactful, at least on everything except your eyes: the inclusion of a new dark theme, in place of the usual bright white and gray appearance. "Okay, this one’s been requested forever, and we finally did it," the Arduino team says. "We didn't just flip some colors around and call it done. We actually went through and redesigned the visual experience to make sure it looks good and stays readable when you're coding at 2 AM."
The same update also brings a "Trash" entry in an updated side-bar, designed as a temporary holding area for deletions before they are removed completely. In addition to Sketches, the Trash also holds Dashboards, Things, and Triggers, allowing any deletion to be rapidly reversed. Things, too, have had an overhaul, with the so-called "Thing Page" getting a complete rewrite. "A Thing should be the center of everything in Arduino Cloud. It’s the hub," the Arduino team explains. "Everything else connects to it. And we wanted the whole system to actually feel like that instead of like a bunch of features bolted together.
"So we rebuilt the whole Thing Page from the ground up. Our design team spent a lot of time trying to make sure you can find your stuff easily. We wanted the interface to support a navigation that feels natural, friction-less. And we wanted the powerful features to just make sense, without needing to read documentation. Now everything's in one place. You can associate Devices, open the Cloud Editor, set up Triggers, and manage everything connected to your Thing without leaving the page. No more tab chaos. No more 'Wait, where was I?'"
The updated Arduino Cloud is live now on the official website, for both paying and free-tier registered users.