Create an animated digital stopwatch in appsheet

AppSheet AppSheet Q&A
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Hi, I need to create a stopwatch in Appsheet. I have tried to do it with SVG, but it does not update in real time. I need it to show the seconds and minutes passing and to activate and restart with two buttons.

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Hi @CaroC

AppSheet does not provide an internal timewatch to use, so a real-time stopwatch is not possible to build.

However, if you “just” need to keep track of minutes and hours, you can workaround it with:

  • apps script that will update as often a possible the time spent

  • a set of actions to update the value at each user’s action on the app

EDTI: To stick to your initial requirement with seconds and minutes, I’m afraid this is not possible with AppSheet

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hi

if it were me, I would try this;

  1. a gif that shows the time that exceeds the time I am trying to measure.

  2. a table with start and end time columns

  3. when you press the start button, the gif will appear

4.add “finish - start” account “virtual” (duration type)

  1. when you press the finish button (hide the “gif” and show “virtual”)

note: if the gif and finish formats are the same, I think I have theoretically made a stopwatch.

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Ok, thanks

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Thank you for your response, I will give it a try