The Mobile Productivity Tools group at Symantec is proud to announce the release of TouchDown for iOS version 8.0.
Almost ten months ago we embarked upon a journey to take the TouchDown products from their current forms and rethink the user experience and simplicity. The first candidate for revamp was the iOS version for obvious reasons. With that in mind, the User Experience, Development, QA and Product management groups have worked hard over the months to bring you this new and improved version.
You will notice in this version that the product has been simplified to a great extent.
- Gone are some of the arcane and mostly unused and non-functional settings.
- The tabs that took up real estate space at the bottom are gone, and instead to switch between views, you can swipe out from the left side of the screen or tap the left most button on the toolbar to reveal the navigation bar.
- We have removed the clutter of buttons on the toolbar (and in some cases two toolbars on the same screen) and moved them under a new Action Bar which appears when you tap the right most button on the toolbar.
- The email view (as well as the compose view) now shows attachments in the same screen. If your email has attachments you will see a paper clip to the right of the subject line. Tapping the paperclip there would let you toggle the attachment list view. You can tap on attachments to download and subsequently open them. When there are additional tasks you can do to attachments, you can now click the elliptical button on the right side to pull up an action sheet with available actions.
- The email compose screen has been improved in several ways, including the way it scrolls automatically when you type.
- When composing an email, you would also notice the new Done button at the top of the keyboard which you can use to dismiss the keyboard so you can send the message or discard it.
We hope that you enjoy using this major update as much as we enjoyed building it. I would also like to congratulate to the members of our UX, Development, QA and Product Management groups that worked hard to make this release happen.
While we believe we have nailed most of the issues in this release, we do recognize that there could still be some areas of improvement. If you have any issues with the new version, support is here to help, please feel free to write to our excellent support team at TouchDown-iOSsupport@symantec.com.