The app was locked to portrait in app.config.js and the hand-kept
AndroidManifest.xml. Android 16 ignores that lock on screens 600 dp and
wider, so tablets and foldables rotated into layouts that were never
tested. This removes the lock in both places, keeps React state across
rotation and split-screen resizes (`smallestScreenSize` joins
`configChanges`), and fixes what broke in landscape:
- the thread pager sizes its pages from its own width and snaps back to
the open message after a rotation instead of showing half a neighbour
- compose and the thread view share one keyboard tracker; a rotation
with the keyboard open closes it, since Android sends no new keyboard
frame and the old portrait one blanked the whole landscape composer
- in a short window with the keyboard up the composer hides the format
bar and tightens its header so a few lines of text stay visible
- inputs with suggestions or context around them opt out of Android's
full-screen landscape keyboard
- month views fit whole rows to the real height, keep the month across a
remount, and the month dropdown re-measures and caps its height
- the week grid's header follows the remounted list after a rotation
- the event sheet's actions stay on screen in landscape
- every RN Modal allows all orientations, or iOS forces portrait
In the day, 3 days and week grids an event could only be started with a
long press, which few people find. Tapping an empty slot now marks it
with a "New event" block, and tapping that block opens the editor at
that hour; a second tap elsewhere moves the block. Long press still
opens the editor straight away. Tapping a day's header in the week or
3 days grid opens that day.
The editor also started events from a slot half an hour late, because
it rounded a time already on the hour up to the next half hour.
The agenda showed each day as a grey header bar above its events. It now
reads like a schedule: the weekday and date sit in a column on the left
of the day's first event (today in a filled circle), a heading marks
where each month starts and a quiet line names each week's range. An
empty today says "Nothing planned. Tap to create." and tapping it opens
a new event. In the drawer the view is now called Schedule.
Events that fill a whole day are listed as all day instead of
"00:00 – 00:00".
The month view used to be a small grid of dots with the selected day's
events listed underneath, so you only ever saw one day's events at a
time. It now fills the screen: each day is a cell with its events as
solid bars in the calendar colour and "+N" for the ones that don't fit.
Tapping a day opens it in the day view, and long-pressing still creates
an event there. Events that fill the whole day no longer show 00:00.
The dotted month stays for the month that drops down under the title.
The calendar header was crowded: four icon toggles, a separate row of
arrows and a Today button, and a small create button squeezed in next
to them. Navigation now follows Google Calendar's layout while keeping
the app's own look:
- the header shows the month; tapping it drops down a month you can
swipe through and pick a day from
- a calendar icon with today's date jumps to today
- Schedule, Day, 3 days, Week and Month are listed at the top of the
drawer, styled like the mail drawer's folders, with Refresh below
- a round create button sits in the corner like the mail compose
button; with tasks on it offers Event or Task
- a new 3 days view shows three columns of the time grid
The arrows stay in the header when free scrolling is off, since the
views can't be swiped then.
With no Trash mailbox, or when Mailbox/get came back as an error, the
Delete action fell through to destroying the email. A shared account
without its own Trash lost mail permanently on one tap.
- only move to Trash; do nothing when there is no Trash or the lookup
failed
- check that Email/set actually updated the email
- show "(No Subject)" in the collapsed text instead of a blank line
- require unlock for Delete (Android 12+)
The tap fix makes a notification open a single page, so the viewer no
longer needs to render up to the opened index. That setting mounted
about N mail panes on every list open, on iOS too. Also drop the
onScrollToIndexFailed handler, which FlatList never calls when
getItemLayout is set.
Since releases ship an `.apk.sha256` file, every in-app update checks
the downloaded APK against it. The check read the 40 MB file in base64
chunks and hashed it in JS, which took longer than the download, and it
reset the progress bar to 0 under the "Downloading" label, so the update
looked like it downloaded twice, the second time slowly.
The file is now read and hashed natively through expo-crypto (the JS
hasher remains as a fallback), and the bar stays full under a
"Verifying…" label while the check runs.
The "Sync with address book" toggle under Content & Senders was off until
the user turned it on, so senders trusted on the phone stayed in the
local allow-list and never reached the "Trusted Senders" address book the
other devices read. A setting the user never chose now counts as on;
only an explicit opt-out, or a server without contacts, turns it off.
Widgets had 22dp corners, rounder than the launcher's own widgets and
the app's cards. They now use 16dp, the Pixel launcher's widget radius,
on the surface, its frame and the picker previews.
The widgets drew every sender as initials, while the app and the
webmail show the contact's photo or the sender's logo first. The
widget avatars now follow the same order: an embedded contact photo,
then the logo of a non-personal sender domain when sender favicons are
on, then the initials.
A widget draws from the stored snapshot and cannot load anything while
it draws, so the pictures are fetched when the snapshot is built and
kept in it as small data URIs. Logos have a cache of their own (a week
for a logo, a day for a domain without one) that survives being
offline, and pictures over 40 KB or in a format Android cannot decode
stay out.
The app had six ways to turn a name into avatar initials, and none of
them was the webmail's. The webmail's Avatar skips punctuation and
symbols in front of each name part ("Sofia" Russo is SR, not "S), takes
two letters of a single name and the first letter of the address
without one. Senders, accounts (sidebar and sign-in), contacts, compose
suggestions and the home-screen widgets all use that now.
The picker previews still showed the layouts from before the fixes in
this series (Month's arrows, the Vacation switch, the old task rows and
triage header). Redrawn from the sample data at each widget's default
size, light theme, with the rounded corners and frame the launcher
draws.
The triage card kept its preview to two lines however tall it was
resized, leaving most of a large card empty, and Latest message showed
no preview at all. Both now use the room they have for the start of
the message.
Folder counts showed only its "Folders" heading when there was no
folder to list, which looks broken; it now says there are no folders to
show. A finished task past its due date still read "Overdue" on the
Tasks widget; it shows its date instead.
The Month widget drew back and forward arrows, and the Vacation widget
an on/off switch. A widget cannot page through months or switch the
vacation reply, so both only opened the app, which the rest of the
widget already does. The arrows are gone; the switch becomes a chevron,
and the Active/Inactive pill under the title still says which state
the reply is in.
Most widget buttons were 32dp tall (Archive, Delete, Reply and Next on
the triage card, Accept, Maybe and Decline, Send wishes, Mail my free
times), Up next's were 36dp and the round compose/new buttons in the
headers 28-32dp, all under the 48dp a finger needs, so taps landed
beside them and did nothing.
Button and Fab take a transparent tap area around what they draw
(`slop`), and the layouts give up the same amount of padding or gap
next to them, so the widgets look the same but the buttons take a 48dp
tap.
Linus Rath
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