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I'm concerned about the mobile-friendly options for MM. Slack has pretty good iOS apps (and others, but I've never tried them). Does MM have quality mobile apps

by emdd 10y ago

I'm concerned about the mobile-friendly options for MM. Slack has pretty good iOS apps (and others, but I've never tried them). Does MM have quality mobile apps?

sofaofthedamned 10y ago
The android app is basically a webview and not very useful.
- i_are_smart 10y ago
  On my android phone, the mattermost app does something weird to my keyboard - it replaces the right-most 1/3 of the spacebar with a key with a '->|' symbol on it that closes the keyboard when pressed. I've never seen any other app do this, and it's (of course) really annoying because it means when I try to hit the spacebar the keyboard closes instead. That's just one of a couple issues I have with the app (push notifications not really working, the chat taking 15 seconds to reload everything upon switching back to the app, etc) that have basically made it useless to me.
  - it33 10y ago
    @i_are_smart, ouch, that keyboard thing sounds really weird. Would you be open to joining our public test channel to share a screenshot? https://pre-release.mattermost.com/core/channels/public-test-channel https://pre-release.mattermost.com/core/channels/public-test... Would highly appreciate your feedback on notifications and load times as well.
    - i_are_smart 10y ago
      @it33, apologies for the slow reply here, I basically never check my messages. I'd be happy to do that once I get some time at work, or afterwards. For the sake of replication, my keyboard is "Hackers Keyboard", running on Android 5.1.1 (specifically OxygenOS 2.2.1) on a OnePlus 2.
xfkechyk 10y ago
still testing out mattermost, but ios app seems great so far. very similar experience between web/desktop/ios apps.
it33 10y ago
I use the Mattermost iOS app daily, and it works well on a good connection. The iOS app is a feature rich experience similar to web and desktop apps, so when I travel and am on a slow connection it doesn't perform as well. Here are our current mobile performance benchmarks so you can decide for yourself: https://docs.mattermost.com/deployment/push.html#mobile-performance-benchmarks https://docs.mattermost.com/deployment/push.html#mobile-perf... There's work underway to get the mobile apps working better on slow connections.
- WhitneyLand 10y ago
  You said it's feature rich, therefore has lower performance over slow connections. This is not true. Mobile app performance over slow connections is determined by app/server architecture, payload efficiency, caching strategy, etc. There are many examples of feature rich apps performing well on slow connections, and many simple apps performing poorly over a normal connection.

by emdd 10y ago

I'm concerned about the mobile-friendly options for MM. Slack has pretty good iOS apps (and others, but I've never tried them). Does MM have quality mobile apps?

sofaofthedamned 10y ago

The android app is basically a webview and not very useful.

i_are_smart 10y ago
On my android phone, the mattermost app does something weird to my keyboard - it replaces the right-most 1/3 of the spacebar with a key with a '->|' symbol on it that closes the keyboard when pressed. I've never seen any other app do this, and it's (of course) really annoying because it means when I try to hit the spacebar the keyboard closes instead. That's just one of a couple issues I have with the app (push notifications not really working, the chat taking 15 seconds to reload everything upon switching back to the app, etc) that have basically made it useless to me.
- it33 10y ago
  @i_are_smart, ouch, that keyboard thing sounds really weird. Would you be open to joining our public test channel to share a screenshot? https://pre-release.mattermost.com/core/channels/public-test-channel https://pre-release.mattermost.com/core/channels/public-test... Would highly appreciate your feedback on notifications and load times as well.
  - i_are_smart 10y ago
    @it33, apologies for the slow reply here, I basically never check my messages. I'd be happy to do that once I get some time at work, or afterwards. For the sake of replication, my keyboard is "Hackers Keyboard", running on Android 5.1.1 (specifically OxygenOS 2.2.1) on a OnePlus 2.

xfkechyk 10y ago

still testing out mattermost, but ios app seems great so far. very similar experience between web/desktop/ios apps.

it33 10y ago

I use the Mattermost iOS app daily, and it works well on a good connection. The iOS app is a feature rich experience similar to web and desktop apps, so when I travel and am on a slow connection it doesn't perform as well. Here are our current mobile performance benchmarks so you can decide for yourself: https://docs.mattermost.com/deployment/push.html#mobile-performance-benchmarks https://docs.mattermost.com/deployment/push.html#mobile-perf... There's work underway to get the mobile apps working better on slow connections.

WhitneyLand 10y ago
You said it's feature rich, therefore has lower performance over slow connections. This is not true. Mobile app performance over slow connections is determined by app/server architecture, payload efficiency, caching strategy, etc. There are many examples of feature rich apps performing well on slow connections, and many simple apps performing poorly over a normal connection.