Roundcubemail: separate mobile interface is needed

[rcubetrac]

_Reported by piratepraveen on 28 Apr 2014 08:48 UTC as Trac ticket #1489838_

On android phones, K9 mail can do email pretty well, but Firefox os is pathetic. Their default email app does not work and they don't care about it. I have no hope it will ever work. So I'm forced to use their mobile browser to check emails. I won't be alone in this boat I'm sure, all people checking mails via mobile browsers are affected.

It needs really a lot of patience to get it to work on the mobile browser. You need to zoom in to see the list of mails and then try a few times to open the threads, then try ten times to open the individual message, in between it will zoom in and out when you click, and finally when it
opens your browser crashes. You have to start over and you need to be a believer and pray for
this to actually work.

So we should have a mobile interface,

which has only minimal screen size requirements. All menus should be foldable and should be placed at the bottom or as a drop down list. gmail mobile interface would be a good place to look for possibilities.

If someone can provide a time estimate, I'm willing to run a crowd funding campaign to get this feature developed (along with #1369135).

_Keywords: mobile_
_Migrated-From: http://trac.roundcube.net/ticket/1489838_

[rcubetrac]

_Comment by @thomascube on 27 Nov 2014 18:53 UTC_

A responsive theme is planned for version 1.2. We already have a volunteer who started working on the design and UX part of it. As soon as there's more progress on this, we'll keep this ticket updated.

[rcubetrac]

_Milestone changed by @thomascube on 27 Nov 2014 18:53 UTC_

later => 1.2-beta

[rcubetrac]

_Comment by marclaporte on 8 Jan 2015 15:46 UTC_

I propose to move to Bootstrap. The two main options are:
http://www.google.com/search?q=Bootstrap+vs+Foundation

Both are excellent. Bootstrap has more mind share:
http://trends.builtwith.com/docinfo/Twitter-Bootstrap
http://trends.builtwith.com/docinfo/Foundation

Beyond responsive design, this will make theming easier as designers know these tools. And tons of free and paid themes are available.

Thanks!

[rcubetrac]

_Comment by kaystrobach on 22 Jan 2015 08:54 UTC_

any chance to see some progress or join forces?
we use roundcube for a project with quite some users in an academic / edu environment and would like to have a mobile friendly interface as well ...

[rcubetrac]

_Comment by marclaporte on 17 Feb 2015 02:52 UTC_

This Android app has between 50,000 and 100,000 installs:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=smalltownboys.rc

So I predict huge popularity for the mobile version of Roundcube. I'd sure like to touch base with the unnamed volunteer :-)

Thanks!

[rcubetrac]

_Comment by kaystrobach on 12 May 2015 08:02 UTC_

is there any progress on that issue, i would like to see something like that and would provide testing etc.

[rcubetrac]

_Comment by marclaporte on 12 May 2015 21:51 UTC_

Here is a way to help:
https://roundcube.net/news/2015/05/03/roundcube-next-is-coming/

Thanks!

[rcubetrac]

_Milestone changed by @thomascube on 29 Jul 2015 07:02 UTC_

1.2-beta => 1.3-beta

[rcubetrac]

_Comment by jure on 5 Aug 2015 12:54 UTC_

I understand this thread is for mobile skin.
But what is your opinion on native Android app?
Is there any AJAX API that would simplify such approach?

I came to the idea, because:

• today is almost not possible to use IMAP/SMTP on public hotspots
• there's no app for roundcube that would allow offline message composing.

Penny for your thoughts? :-)

Rgds,
Jure

[julmot]

:+1:

As this issue is still open, is there any help necessary?

A mobile optimized roundcube should:

• be based on AngularJS 2 (will probably be stable when this will be released)
• be based on SCSS
• contain JSDOC comments
• contain karma + jasmine + Sauce Labs (cross browser) tests
• contain ESLint
• should additionally be designed in a prototype first, to make sure it fits usability requirements and has a good user experience

Prerequisite

• RESTful API available to make AJAX requests

To answer the first question about time estimate, from my point of view this would take at least 3 months for a high quality realization (for a single developer).

[alecpl]

We do not plan working on this on current code base. We have Roundcube Next for this.

[sophie-h]

Is there hope that you would pull a bunch of small css adjustment to the Larry skin to make RC work on small screens? If this is the case, I would give that a try.

[julmot]

@qua-bla to whom is your question?

[sophie-h]

@julmot to folks that can pull i.e. RC project members

[lahcejopa]

Are there any plans to make that happen either in the form of the skin or a standalone mobile app or this feature request just died/got abandoned with a WONTFIX tag?

[sophie-h]

I hoped for a sign from the RC team. Looking at #5093 there is stuff
happening to the skins.

I will spend a day this week to see if it is realistic to get all the
"position absolute" mess (these skins were created before css flexboxes
were available) usable for mobile via media queries. I will report if I
gave up.

A bit annoying that I have to setup a working dev-layouts version of
RC. I will start working on 1.2 first since the basic problems should
be identical.

[sophie-h]

Okay, this is impossible since there is JS stuff going on setting html style attributes. Creating another skin is also not an easy solution since skins currently can be delivered depending on the device form. I'm out.

[basdds]

Any updates on roundcube for mobile browsers in release 1.3? I've used some mobile skins working flawlessly with roundcube by now...

But native support for mobile browsers would be a milestone for the project imho!

[th3penguinwhisperer]

Yet another user who would like to see a responsive RoundCube. On my smartphone I can't even see the subjects. I don't get this feature is already postponed for 2 years. Is RC still being worked on or abandoned as well by the devs?

[alecpl]

Work is in progress (https://github.com/roundcube/elastic) Hopefully will be part of 1.4.

[th3penguinwhisperer]

@alecpl Cool! Really looking forward to finally have this as part of Roundcube!

[xshadow]

@alecpl Would love to see that too

[HighlyFavoredBA]

@alecpl: Is Elastic still expected to be ready in 1.4?! Is 1.4 going to have a 177 by 49 area for logo banners?! I don't see a banner image in the current Elastic dev files. Should 1.4 be ready by spring 18? :--)

[alecpl]

The Elastic skin has been merged into the Roundcube repo.

There's no banner in Elastic. All you can do is to replace the "watermark" image. I think 1.4-beta will be released sometime in 2018-Q2.