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.
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.
Brings feat/device-sync into main: on Android, each account's address
books and calendars can sync both ways with the phone's Contacts and
Calendar apps (Settings -> Contacts / Calendar -> Sync to this
device), through a "Bulwark" Android account with a contacts and a
calendar sync adapter.
- native side: the account, both sync adapters, provider access scoped
to the account, push routing to the syncs, sync problem notices
- the sync engine in `src/device-sync`, run as a headless task
- the settings sections, sign-out and removal handling, translations
- design, limitations and verification in `docs/device-sync.md`
The account row in the sync settings counts the synced address books
or calendars from its own copy of the list, loaded when the row
appears. The chooser loads a fresh list when it opens, so a calendar
created meanwhile showed there but not in the count ("4 of 5 sync"
stayed after a sixth appeared, and turning it on or off changed
nothing) until the settings page was opened again.
Every fresh list now reaches every view of that account's collections,
so the count follows the chooser.
On Android, Settings > Contacts and Settings > Calendar get a "Sync to
this device" section with a row per signed-in account. This makes device
sync reachable:
- The switch asks for the contacts or calendar permission after a short
explanation (denied: sync stays off and says why, with a link to the
app's system settings once Android stops asking), creates the
account's Bulwark account in Android and syncs right away. Turning it
off uploads what the device changed first and asks before anything
that could not go up is lost. The switch shows Android's own state, so
sync turned off in Android Settings shows as paused.
- Which address books or calendars sync: the personal account's are on
by default, shared ones and the Trusted Senders book off; read-only
ones are marked, and a note says when another signed-in account
already syncs the same shared one.
- The address book new contacts from other apps go to, who reminds of
synced events (the calendar app or Bulwark, asked when calendar sync
is turned on while Bulwark's reminders are on), and how often Android
syncs on its own (every 15 minutes to every 6 hours, or not at all).
- "Sync now", the last sync with its result, or the error with what to
do about it ("Sign in again", "Grant access", "Review deletions"), and
a link to the account in Android Settings.
- Accounts the app signed out while they synced are listed with "Sign
in again" and "Remove from this device".
The settings search finds both sections. iOS, and Android builds without
the native module, show nothing new.
Checked: the collection listing and status tests, the settings search
and i18n tests, `npm run typecheck`, `npm test` and `npm run i18n:check`
on this commit, and on the API 32 emulator with usera on the local
server: the section, turning contacts sync on (Android account created,
152 contacts on the device, one per card) and the status after a run.
Any web page (one tap) or installed app (no tap) could fire a
`bulwarkmail://pair` link at the app, which then silently added the
sender's mailbox and switched to it, so the user might send or save mail
into an attacker's account. A `connect` link likewise opened any
server's sign-in page.
- Links that arrive from outside the app now ask first, naming the
webmail's host and whether the link adds an account. Cancel discards
the link for good; a link delivered again while the question is open
is dropped. Codes scanned or pasted inside the app still go straight
through.
- With the account registry full, a link shows the limit instead of
opening "Add account".
- A pairing link for a plain-http webmail says the connection would be
unencrypted instead of "That code isn't a Bulwark sign-in code", or
nothing at all for a tapped link.
The webmail's QR encodes a `bulwarkmail://pair?...` link, but nothing
registered that scheme: scanning it with the system camera or Google
Lens did nothing, and without a camera there was no way in at all.
- `bulwarkmail` is registered in `app.config.js` (iOS) and the committed
AndroidManifest. Links are parked in a small store and picked up by
the sign-in screen, or by "Add account" when already signed in, once
per launch.
- "Paste sign-in link" on the sign-in screen (and next to the server
step's scan hint) takes a link copied from the webmail.
- While pairing, the waiting screen names the webmail being paired with.
A sweep of src for what the earlier passes missed:
- The message export errors ("Sharing is not available on this
device", "Download failed: 404") were English; they come from the
catalog now.
- Event cards and details glued the participant count to a lowercased
"Participants"; they use the webmail's participant plural.
- Contact activity dates ignored the app language.
- Imported filter rules from an unknown tool showed the parser's
English "External" instead of the translated label.
- The contact field remove button and the vacation editor's
bold/italic/underline/list buttons get screen reader labels.
The bottom tabs showed their route names ("Mail", "Calendar", …) in
every language; they now use the webmail's navigation names, and an
unavailable tab says so with one translated message instead of an
English "(unavailable)" suffix. The first loading screen is
translated as well.
The Unified Inbox selection toolbar, its back and clear-search buttons,
and the drawer's close, expand/collapse and remove-account buttons get
screen reader labels. Its unknown-sender fallback, selection count and
"account(s) could not be loaded" banner are proper translations and
plurals now.
The key harvest and the translation coverage test did not look at
App.tsx, which sits next to src/; they do now.
- The custom recurrence editor and its summary were English throughout
(labels, units, weekday and month names, "on the third Thursday");
they now use the webmail's recurrence fragments and the app's date
locale. The interval and occurrence counts are ICU plurals, also in
the event details, which filled "Every {count} days" with
`.replace`.
- The iCal subscription sheet is translated with the webmail's
subscription strings, and its "last updated" time is relative in the
app language. The feed errors it shows come from the catalog too.
- The calendar share sheet asked for `calendar.share.role_*` keys no
catalog has; it now uses the webmail's sharing presets and title.
- Close, remove, refresh, unsubscribe, delete and new-task buttons get
screen reader labels, the event editor's switches are named, color
swatches read out their color, and task checkboxes and calendar rows
report whether they are checked.
The calendar i18n test now covers the sheets.
The week view's "all-day" label and its "Untitled" fallback were
hard-coded; they now use the catalog's "All day" and "(No title)" like
the scrolling time grid. The calendar's menu, tasks, view switch, new
event and previous/next buttons get screen reader labels (the view
buttons also say which one is selected), and a calendar i18n test
covers the calendar views.
The message details panel built its received line, attachment summary
and spam score by gluing strings together; each is now one ICU message
(the attachment count is a proper plural). The SPF/DKIM/DMARC results
use the webmail's translated result names, and an invitation's date is
formatted in the app language instead of always in English.
The quick reply box wrote its own "date, name <email>:" quote header;
it now uses the composer's translated "On {date}, {from} wrote:" line
so both kinds of reply look the same.
The back button, the subject and header star buttons, the sender
avatar and the More/Tag sheet close buttons get screen reader labels,
and the screens i18n test covers the viewer files.
A quick reply held by the undo-send delay could not be undone: the
undo bar lived only on the mail list, and the quick reply never
recorded the held send for it.
- The undo bar is now hosted on every stack screen through the
navigator's `screenLayout`, next to the toasts, and only the focused
screen's renders, so it shows wherever the send started and never
twice. The list's own instance is gone; archive, delete, move and
spam undo use the same bar as before. The composer gets none, since
its Undo reopens the composer.
- The quick reply records a held send through the same store action as
the composer, including the account it went out of, so Undo and
Send now reach a shared account's submission and Undo restores the
reply into that account's Drafts.
- The quick reply dismisses the keyboard after sending, which would
otherwise cover the bar.
The filter rule reorder, delete and remove-condition/action buttons,
the filter, Sieve and folder editor close buttons and the attachment
keyword remove buttons had no label. The Sieve editor's line count now
uses an ICU plural, and the settings i18n test covers every pane.
The sign-in screen showed the auth store's raw English error ("Session
expired", "Invalid username or password") as the notice title. It now
runs it through describeLoginError like every other sign-in failure,
which also learns to explain an expired session with the webmail's
login.session_expired copy. The back and close buttons of the sign-in
steps get screen reader labels, and the email placeholders use the
webmail's translated example address.
Group recipient chips, the group size in suggestions, the upload
progress and the upload/send failure fallbacks were English or glued
together from a translated word and a number; they now use ICU
messages. The close, attach, schedule and sender-options buttons, the
recipient and attachment remove buttons and the From override switch
get screen reader labels (audit U8).
The filter sheet, the .eml import result, the selection count, the
folder totals and the offline sync banner were English literals or
built by gluing translated words to numbers. They now use t() with ICU
arguments and plurals; filter chips go through a "{field}: {value}"
message so translators control the order. The invitation trust
warnings used keys that no catalog had, so they are now literal t()
calls and harvested.
For screen readers (audit U8) the hamburger, select-all checkbox,
filter, sort and compose buttons, the selection toolbar, search and
chip clear buttons, and the close buttons of the move, tag, template,
identity, QR and action sheets get translated labels and roles.
The share sheet asked for files.share_role_* keys that no catalog has,
so Viewer, Editor and Manager stayed English everywhere; it now uses
the webmail's sharing.preset names and its "Share \"{name}\"" title.
The per-file menu, back and clear-selection buttons get screen reader
labels, and the "sharing is not available" error is translated.
The contact list, detail and edit screens, the group screen, the
import, picker and tag sheets and the contacts drawer were written in
English, including the activity panel ("Unknown", "Upcoming events"),
alert titles and every form label and option. They now go through
t(), reusing the webmail's contacts.* keys where the meaning matches,
with ICU plurals for member, contact and import counts instead of
`contact${n === 1 ? '' : 's'}`. JSContact context, phone feature,
personal-info and gender values on the detail screen are shown with
their translated labels instead of the raw keys.
Icon-only buttons on these screens (back, edit, more, bulk actions,
remove, close, clear search) get screen reader labels, and chips,
checkboxes and collapsible sections report their state.
A settings switch had a role and a checked state but no label, so
TalkBack only announced "switch, off". A switch inside a SettingItem now
takes that row's label, and the switches outside one (filter rules,
expanded view, template and sidebar app editors, filter rule options)
get their visible label passed explicitly.
The Contacts and Content & Senders panes, the swipe behaviour row in
Layout, the device time zone option in Calendar and the identity editor
placeholders were written as English literals, so they stayed English
in every language. They now go through t(), reusing the webmail's
settings.contacts, contacts.address_books and
settings.email_behavior.trusted_senders keys where the wording matches.
Counts use ICU plurals instead of `contact${n === 1 ? '' : 's'}`, and the
address book icon buttons get screen reader labels.
The settings i18n test now parses each pane with the TypeScript compiler
and also flags JSX text, alerts and accessibility labels, and covers
the newly cleaned panes.
The calendar placed events by the calendar time-zone setting, but
"today", the now-line and the "Today" button still went by the device
clock. With the setting away from the device zone, the grid could
mark yesterday as today, draw the now-line hours off and jump to the
wrong day.
- the views, the agenda's "Today"/"Tomorrow" headers and today anchor,
the selected day, the scroll window's start and the "Today" button
use `displayNow`, `isDisplayToday`, `isDisplayTomorrow` and
`displayNowMinutes`
- a long press at an hour already hands the editor a calendar-zone
time, which it converts when it saves
- changing the setting re-buckets the days and reloads the loaded
range, since the server reads floating times and the range bounds
in that zone
With the calendar time-zone setting away from the device zone, the
event and task editors showed device-local times but saved them
labelled with the calendar zone, so opening an event and saving it
unchanged moved it by the difference between the two zones.
The calendar now works in display dates like the webmail
(`toDisplayDate` / `fromDisplayDate`): Dates whose local fields read
as the wall clock in the calendar zone. They are the identity while
the calendar follows the device.
- `getEventStartDate` / `getEventEndDate` return display dates, so the
views, the detail sheet and the editor show calendar-zone times
- the editors convert back through `eventTimeFieldsToSave` and
`buildTaskEditorChanges`: a start, end or due the user left alone is
saved exactly as stored, a changed one is converted into the zone the
event or task lives in (new, floating and formerly all-day ones take
the calendar zone), and durations count whole days as calendar days
in that zone
- `getTaskDueDate` stays the real instant for reminders; the tasks
sheet uses `getTaskDueDisplayDate`, `displayNow` and
`isDisplayToday`
- wall clocks are parsed from their digits, so one inside the device's
own DST gap still converts right
- duplicating an event keeps its wall clock in its own zone instead of
reading the device time
Linus Rath
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