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 iPhone or other internet enabled devices. Open-Xchange Mobile App offers online access to appointments, contacts and mails on the road using your smart phone. Open-Xchange Mobile App provides users with a special web client, providing end users with instant access to their data, which are at the same time safely stored on Open-Xchange Server. Moreover, you can start a call clicking on a phone number in your Open-Xchange contacts on your Smartphone. The following modules are supported:

• E-Mail
• Calendar
• Contacts

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

• Konfigurierbar
• Anzahl der Mails die abgerufen werden (25,50,75,100)
• Anzahl Tage die auf Termine überprüft werden (5,10,20,30)
• Animationen für iOS-Geräte an/abschaltbar
• Abonnieren von Kontaktordnern (s.O.)
• Autologin (Nach einmaligem Einloggen mit der Einstellung

"Logindaten merken" wird man immer wieder automatisch eingeloggt bis man sich wieder abmeldet)

• Themability der Anwendung per CSS
• i18n für DE und EN, andere Sprachen brauchen nur Lang-Datei
• Größenoptimiert, ca. 100KB Anwendungslogik die nur einmalig zu laden sind
• Für iPhone können per Provisionierung (Aufruf einer URL) direkt grafische Starter

auf dem Homescreen erzeugt werden

Supported devices

Device Support
Apple iPhone	yes (iPhone OS 2.0, 2.1, 3.0, 4.0)	Official Supported from OX: 2G, 3G, 3GS, 4, iPad and iPod-Touch 3.1.3
Android	yes	Official Supported from OX: Google Nexus One (Android Froyo 2.2), Google Nexus One (Android Froyo 2.2), HTC Desire (Sense Android 2.1)
Nokia/Symbian S60 3rd Edition, Symbian S60 5th Edition	yes	SW Version 21.0.045
Windows Mobile mit IE	no

Technical overview

• Based on HTML5, CSS, Javascript, Frameworks jQuery and jQTouch
• Optimized for Webkit-Browser (iPhone, Android, S60, 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 Sercer >= 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: oxmobileweb2
• 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: OXtender for Mobile Web

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.