Make writing zone fullscreen

[baking333]

Hello everyone,

Hello everyone !

I’m used to write long emails and the interface is not helpful when showing only 2 to 3 lines of text (in smartphone)

This feature was implemented in other apps and it is really helpful just by clicking on an icon beside the “input text zone” which will expand the “text zone” to take full screen and can show more than a dozen lines

Here is a PoC :

Small text zone

Fullscreen text zone

Thanks !

[link2xt]

Similar proposal:

Dynamicall resizing height of MLE as needed when typing new messages

The MLE for typing new messages is very small on Android phones/tablets, ie only a couple of lines. This is fine when the message is only a few words but unfriendly when typing a longer message where you have to scroll to see what you typed earlier. I suggest the MLE dynamically resizes as needed, perhaps up to 2/3 of the available height on a phone/tablet. This would still leave 1/3 available to view older messages if needed while typing a new message.

[r10s]

note: if you turn to “landscape”, the input field is shown full screen. might be a reasonable workaround for now.

[baking333]

@link2xt : Thanks for the link.

Actually, I have searched for keywords like writing, text zone and other keywords but it seems that I did a poor job, sorry for the double proposal, but it’s really different as to dynamically resize the text zone (which is an interesting proposal too) and making it fullscreen (minus the keyboard high)…

@r10s : thanks for the suggestion !
Surprisingly, I’ve didn’t think to do that until a few minutes back when I saw your message and actually tried it, I remembered why I never put my phone in landscape to type message
Actually my thumbs can’t reach the middle part of the keyboard “g” and “v” and I can hardly type the letters “t” and “y” (I must do a small acrobatic move) and the suggestions too…

[agutierrez]

Expand the text editor

One of the things he hated most in chat applications, is his limited space in the text editor, this makes it more complicated and uncomfortable to write longer message. On many occasions I needed to write my messages in a notebook in order to have a better overview of the whole message. Therefore: I recommend: add an option to expand the text editor, as if it only shows, the editor and the on-screen keyboard. A small button could be placed above the Emoji button, which is only displayed when …

[monperrus]

Yes, writing long emails is an important use case. It DeltaChat supports full screen writing, it would be a uniquely valuable feature compared to the competition.