Community Office Hours: An Android Retrospective

If you can believe it, Thunderbird for Android has been out for just over a year! In this episode of our Community Office Hours, Heather and Monica check back in with the mobile team after our chat with them back in January. Sr. Software Engineer Wolf Montwé and our new Manager of Mobile Apps, Jon Bott look back at what the growing mobile team has been able to accomplish this last year, what we’re still working on, and what’s up ahead. Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:54 One Year Retrospective: What Worked & What Didn't 02:47 Closing the Gap with the Desktop Experience 04:00 Synchronization, Old UI & Dark Mode Challenges 05:57 The Difficulty of Rewriting Core Code 08:31 Why Move to a Monthly Release Cycle? 11:11 The "Carpaccio Method" for Development 13:27 The Struggle with "Technical Debt" 17:14 How a Lack of Documentation Slows Down Fixes 20:00 Lessons from Android for the New iOS App 23:41 Developers' Wishlist: A Modern UI & Smarter Features 26:40 Developers' Wishlist: Better Search & S