State of the Thunder 14: The 2026 Mobile Roadmap

About this episode

Alessandro discusses the 2026 mobile roadmap for Android and iOS apps, outlining priorities and design plans.

As 2025 winds down, its time to start thinking of what we want to achieve for our Android AND iOS apps next year. Alessandro walks us through the 2026 mobile roadmap, covering our urgent priorities, feature wish list, and a glimpse at our upcoming design plans for the entire Thunderbird project. Resources: Current Android Roadmap: https://github.com/orgs/thunderbird/projects/19 TB Pro Announcement: https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/04/thundermail-and-thunderbird-pro-services/ Mobile Development Matrix: https://matrix.to/#/#tb-mobile-dev:mozilla.org Thunderbird for Android GitHub Issues: https://github.com/thunderbird/thunderbird-android/issues (00:00) - (00:00) - Intro (01:47) - Thunderbird Pro in Mobile (05:49) - How we build a roadmap (07:40) - Android initiatives (12:51) - Material 3 or Material You (21:05) - Calendar Exploration Questions (31:26) - Roadmap items for our community (33:34) - iOS initiatives ★ Support this podcast ★

People in this episode

Host: Alessandro

Topics covered

• mobile development
• Android apps
• iOS apps
• 2026 roadmap
• feature planning
• design plans

Keywords

• mobile roadmap
• Android
• iOS
• Thunderbird
• feature wish list
• design plans
• 2026

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: MZLA Technologies Corporation, Mozilla

Products: Android, iOS

Books & works: Thunderbird, TB Pro

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