
VIDEO: The Thunderbird Mobile Team
The Thunderbird Mobile team are crafting the newest chapter of the Thunderbird story. In this month’s office hours, we sat down to chat with the entire mobile team! This includes Philipp Kewisch, Sr. Manager of Mobile Engineering (and long-time Thunderbird contributor), and Sr. Software Engineers cketti and Wolf Montwé (long-time K-9 Mail maintainer and developer, respectively). We talk about the journey from K-9 Mail to Thunderbird for Android, what’s new and what’s coming in the near future, and the first steps towards Thunderbird on your iOS devices!
Next month, we’ll be chatting with Laurel Terlesky, Manager of the UI/UX Design Studio! She’ll be sharing her FOSDEM talk, “Thunderbird: Building a Cross-Platform, Scalable Open-Source Design System.” It’s been a while since we’ve chatted with the design team, and it will be great to see what they’re working on.
January Office Hours: The Thunderbird Mobile Team
In June 2022, we announced that K-9 Mail would be joining the Thunderbird family, and would ultimately become Thunderbird for Android. After two years of development, the first beta release of Thunderbird for Android debuted in October 2024, shortly followed by the first stable release. Since then, over 200 thousand users have downloaded the app, and we’ve gotten some very nice reviews in ZDNet and Android Authority. If you haven’t tried us on your Android device yet, now is a great time! And if, like some of us, you’re waiting for Thunderbird to come to your iPhone or iPad, we have some exciting news at the end of our talk.
Want to know more about the Android development process and find out what’s coming soon to the app? Want the first look into our plans for Thunderbird on iOS? Let our mobile team guests provide the answers!
Watch, Read, and Get Involved
We’re so grateful to Philipp, cketti, and Wolf for joining us! We hope this video helps explain more about Thunderbird on Android (and eventually iOS), and encourages you to download the app if you haven’t already. If you’re a regular user, we hope you consider contributing code, translations, or support. And if you’re an iOS developer, we hope you consider joining our team!
VIDEO (Also on Peertube):
Thunderbird for Android Resources:
- Download Thunderbird for Android
- Get Support for Thunderbird for Android:
- Matrix: https://matrix.to/#/#tb-android:mozilla.org
- Mozilla Support (SUMO): https://support.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird-android
- Get Involved with Thunderbird for Android
- Code Contribution
- Localization
- Provide Support on SUMO
- Beta Testing
- Download the Beta
- Join the Android Beta Mailing List
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