OX6:OX Mobile Web Interface
Information and Installation of Open-Xchange Mobile App (Beta)
Description
Later this year, Open-Xchange will release Open-Xchange Mobile App, which lets you access data from Open-Xchange Server 6 with your smartphone running a webkit based browser like the iPhone or Android devices. Open-Xchange Mobile App offers online and offline access to appointments, contacts and mails on the road using your smartphone. Optimized for low bandwiths Open-Xchange Mobile App offers instant and fast over the air access to your data , which are at the same time safely stored on Open-Xchange Server. The following modules are supported:
- Calendar
- Contacts
Moreover, you can use start calls by clicking on a phone number in your Open-Xchange contacts on your Smartphone or directly send E-Mails.
Features and Functions
Module Mail
- Access on all Open-Xchange standard folder: Inbox, Sent, Trash, Spam and Drafts
- Creation of new e-mails
- Answer, forward and delete e-mails
Module Contact
- Access on all Open-Xchange contact folder and contacts with details
- Integration of Google Maps® for address data
- Creation of e-mail directly from contact module
- Start call directly from contact module
Module Calendar
- Access on all Open-Xchange calendar folder and appointments with details
- Accept/Decline of appointments
- Participants and resources list from all appointments
- Planned: Additional notes for Accept/Decline function, creation of new appointments
Persistence of the Mobile App
- Offline capability
- All contacts are available offline
- All appointments are available offline
- All mails header are available offline
- All mails which are opened once are available offline
Configuration
- Number of e-mails retrieved (25,50,75,100)
- Number of days which will be checked for appointments (5,10,20,30)
- Animation for iOS-devices (on/off)
- Subscribe of contact folder
- Autologin
Themeability by CSS
- i18n for DE and EN
- Size optimized
- It is possible to create app icon on iPhone home screen
Supported devices
The OX Mobile App should work on devices running a Webkit based browser.
| Device Support | ||
| Apple iPhone | yes (iPhone OS 2.0, 2.1, 3.0, 4.0) | Official Supported from OX: 2G, 3G, 3GS, 4 and iPod-Touch 3.1.3 |
| Android | yes | Official Supported from OX: Google Nexus One (Android Froyo 2.2), HTC Desire (Sense Android 2.1) |
| Nokia/Symbian S60 5th Edition | no | SW Version 21.0.045 |
| Windows Mobile mit IE | no | |
| Windows Phone 7 | no |
Technical overview
- Based on HTML5, CSS, Javascript, Frameworks jQuery and jQTouch
- Optimized for Webkit-Browser (iPhone, Android, no iPad yet)
- Completely offline capability
Components
The Open-Xchange Mobile App (Beta) contains 2 parts. One part is dedicated to the iPhone as webclient and the other one is for most of the other mobile devices which dont have any WEBKIT powered browser installed. The OXtender is written in PHP and therefore requires that you have installed php5 on your Webserver including following modules which are need by the application:
- gettext
- json
- mcrypt
- curl
Requirements
- Open-Xchange Server >= v.6.14
- Debian Lenny or Etch, SUSE Linux Enterprise 10
- 1GB RAM
Download
Please note that everything from this page and beyond is in Beta: That means that nothing is final, changes will be made before final release, stability is not guaranteed and nothing from this site should be used in production.
Follow this link to download the Installation package and the Release Notes.
The access-data are:
- User name: oxmobileapp
- Password: first$cut
Installation on the Open-Xchange Server
- Installation on the Apache or other Webserver
- After the download of the package, you can start the installation via your favorite package manager. On Debian you can use "dpkg -i" or on SUSE you would use the "rpm -Uvh" command.
- Please add a hostaddress at the config file
- Please note: You have the possibility to deploy the OXtender as hyprid-app via cross-compiling tools like PhoneGap
Configuration
- After the installation of the Open-Xchange Mobile App (Beta), you will find an Open-Xchange configuration file in /var/www/ox6-mobile/ called config.php. Please edit this file and set the hostname etc. according to your OX 6 installation. Make also sure your locales (en_EN@utf8,de_de@utf8)on the system are correctly installed and configured. Else you wont see any translated page.
- For more details and README see the systems documentation directory (/usr/share/doc).
Reporting
Open-Xchange is interested in learning about bugs, specifically in your runtime environment. If you experience any misbehaviors, please report bugs via our public bugzilla:
Open-Xchange Bugzilla
Product: OX Mobile App
Please Note
After Installation of Open-Xchange Mobile App (Beta) on a Debian 32-bit systems Appointments may be displayed wrongly within the Mobile-GUI. Please read the SDB-Article to inform you about the reasons and solution.