We've had a few iOS updates in the last few Android Progress Reports, but with more substantial iOS news, it's time for a name change! So here's the shiny, new(ish) Mobile Progress Report! ✨
Last month, we published our initial iOS repository, made plans for Testflight and laid out our intended initial features. We also discuss initial release engineering and localization decisions. For the Android app, we made a LOT of fixes. 🔧
#Thunderbird #iOS #Android #Email
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Thunderbird for Mobile April 2025 Progress Report - The Thunderbird Blog
Last month, our growing team was working on Thunderbird for iOS (Testflight preparations and workflow decisions) and Android (lots of fixes).Philipp Kewisch (The Thunderbird Blog)
gprimola$
in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox • • •that sounds terrible!! Why spend so much resource (time, human and money) on something so closed as Apple's ecosystem?
I think you should put effort on improving interface and other features, to a point where #Thunderbird could be a strong plus for Android.
Don't get me wrong, Thunderbird mobile is good, but it can be so improved yet!
Eric Wätke
in reply to gprimola$ • • •@giorgiolucas I don’t even understand what you are trying to say—making Thunderbird on Android so people buy Android phones instead of iPhones?
As restrictive and closed down the Apple ecosystem is, the only think I would remotely call “terrible” is ignoring a quarter of the population who happen to use another operating system
gprimola$
in reply to Eric Wätke • • •@cire901 "making Thunderbird on Android so people buy Android phones instead of iPhones?"
A: That's exactly what I'm suggesting.
Regarding your second statement, it's complicated to give you a full answer here, but you are totally right.
However, you're assuming that iPhone users might be unhappy with iMail, or even willing to try another email client (given the cost of that change).
And we are talking about a very corporative market, where Outlook, Gmail and even Yahoo have difficulties over iCloud.
I, for instance, dev and enthusiast of Open Source (just "recently" "aware" of the Free movement) have been on Apple's ecosystem for the past 9 years with the whole package: Mac, iPhone, iCloud, etc, and it's the dumbest thing being on Apple and not leverage that. It's the most smooth and productive setup. Apple knows it and tailor it that way.
Thus Apple's ecosystem needs to be weaken.
(continue)
gprimola$
in reply to gprimola$ • • •@cire901 and one of the ways to that is not having yet another email client on Apple Store, which helps strengthen their apps' catalogue.
I trully believe the only way @thunderbird, #Firefox, thus Mozilla to thrive, is both strengthening and weakening Apple's ecosystem, and that means not being present there and help to strengthen where it thrives - and it's not that it thrives that much - on Android.
Eric Wätke
in reply to gprimola$ • • •@giorgiolucas I totally see where you are coming from. I don’t think that a single App has the power to do that though.
I do believe however, that an E-Mail Client that supports syncing configs across devices while allowing stuff like PGP encryption has huge market-share potential.
On iOS, there is literally nothing. Looking at corporate alone I see huge potential—handing out predefined configs without a privacy compromise would be awesome!
Eric Wätke
in reply to Eric Wätke • • •gprimola$
in reply to Eric Wätke • • •@cire901 definitelly not.
Due to that long run on Apple, I use as my primary email an icloud.com account. I've been using iMail for the past 9 years and just recently I switch to Thunderbird, and man you don't know how much it hurts to go to Thunderbird. iMail is great and Thunderbird is way behind it, no question at all!! Despite all the non-email related feature, which is another waste, iMail is on the vanguard of Apple email client, and it's just there when you get a new Mac.
The only thing that keeps me using Thunderbird now is my activism against private, corporations and US digital sovereignity.
And also bacause I'm stubborn 😂😅
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in reply to gprimola$ • • •gprimola$
in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox • • •I didn't know about connect.mozilla, sure will base touch with it!!!
Thanks!! :D
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in reply to gprimola$ • • •dfp
in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox • • •@thunderbird@mastodon.online
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in reply to dfp • • •dfp
in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox • • •Thunderbird for Android / K-9 Mail/legacy-ui-legacy — Chinese (Simplified Han script)
Hosted WeblatePoesty
in reply to dfp • • •这是因为单复数的问题,通常情况下简体中文翻译不需要单复数格式,但某些情况下原文的单复数存在不对应的情况
“Do you really want to move this message to the spam folder?” 对应 %1$d 为 1,可以得知这是在移动单封邮件下的弹出窗口消息,而使用的是翻译给出的复数格式
dfp
in reply to Poesty • • •Poesty
in reply to dfp • • •另一种办法是修改原文,将单复数格式对应字符串给分开,当然这个无法在 weblate 上操作
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