Who wants manager to release phone app

I’m working on that…

Here is current progress.

Basically viewing Manager on narrow screens (such as mobile phones) will shift side navigation to the top. You can use touch gesture to scroll side ways if the content extends width of the screen.

This is still very much work in progress but in the end, every screen should be mobile friendly.

We can have dedicated mobile app for Android and iOS but it would be mostly thin wrapper around mobile-optimized web interface.

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Looking good.

A huge benefit of this is that existing forum answers to questions (and guides) will not need to change because it’s very similar to the existing UI … just responsive to the device screen.

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Many thanks @lubos for the great work so far.

I suggest giving the priority to the sales invoice screen. Since its used a lot by the mobile sales teams on their mobiles and tablets.

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Tested version 22.3.47 and it works beautifully.

Needsa bit more work on forms but Kudos and thanks @lubos.

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@lubos The basic layout is good with navigation on the top is a good idea. However, the current appearance of Assets, Liabilities, P&L in one column is definitely inconvenient making the colum too long to scroll down. To see the P&L, one has to scroll long way down pass the Assets & Liabilities to reach the figure.

So, the best layout, in my opinion, would be with navigation on the top as in current view while Assets& Liabilities should be in left column & P&L in right column

Hope, this would be appreciated by most users.

@sonicgroup I do not agree. The left and right presentation will make the texts smaller and unreadable, or the statement difficult to read.

I agree with @Abeiku. @sonicgroup, this is exactly why a mobile version was resisted for so long. The physical phone screen layout just is not very conducive to accounting displays.

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A hamburger menu is easier to navigate for the desktop tabs, than the horizontal scrolling tabs from left to right.

Making manager.io mobile optimized is definitely the way to go rather than making an app. It is more versatile and it’s the same product rather than two code bases.

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Agreed. A mobile app is silly.

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That’s right, the text will be smaller. But, the whole presentation will look more organized rather than a complex view plus need to scroll long way down just to see a figure of P&L However, the text will still definitely bigger than previous one with the navigation moved to the top. It is more important that to achieve perfection, we have to accept some compromises.

@holycow & @whereskarlo , I agree with you :+1:
Why need mobile app? It doesn’t make sense to work on mobile rather than from an office environment - after all, we are doing official posting not playing game on mobile.

Equally important the receipt for payment as well.

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At this point who doesn’t want it. Howerver, it doesnt have too be the complete application on mobile. For me, I just need it to view customer reports, enter and print reciepts and check inventory items.

THat would require most other core elements of Manager such as cash & bank accounts, receipts and payments, inventory items, etc to work as well.

True but most of it would be reports and can be done through APIs. There is no need to rebuild the complete application (at least for now).

That may be what you need personally. But the application cannot be designed just for you. If a mobile version is going to be offered, it needs to address every potential need.

Kudos to Manager Team , i really appreciate your hard work & dedication.
Thanks :slightly_smiling_face:
Don’t Bother about Critics

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Looking v Interesting News
awaiting Mobile app version

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