Get context menu from top of the screen to the bottom

[bumpy_flapjack]

Hi all,

I recently switched to a new phone, re-installed AquaMail and started tweaking it back to the way I had it on my old phone before.

There is however one option that for the life of me I cannot figure out where I can change this within the settings to the way I like it:
The context interaction menu for each folder is in the top right corner of the app (the one that holds the buttons for "write new message", "refresh", etc.) [See picture 1]. I would like to get this down to the bottom of the screen, just like I have it when I have a specific message open, where the context menu then is on the bottom of the screen (the one that holds the buttons for "move to trash", "reply", "forward", etc...) [See picture 2].

I've attached two pictures with what I mean.

This is driving me crazy. I had it working on my old phone before but I simply cannot find the option to change it within the settings.

Can anyone help please?

[Kostya Vasilyev]

Sorry this isn't possible, because of a change made by Google in Android 5.0. The "buttons along the bottom" are "not part of the modern Android design".

We added a special case (our own code) on the message "view" screen, but on the other screens it's handled by Android, and so the menu bar ("action bar" as it's called) is along the top.

The FAQ has more details if you like...

[bumpy_flapjack]

Thanks.
And once again Google is fucking it all up... well, only option for me now is  to root my phone and install and older Android version. Google is forcing my hand by being completely and utterly stupid.

[Kostya Vasilyev]

Copy-pasting from the FAQ for completeness' sake:

Since 1.8, all of AquaMail’s themes are based on “material design”, Google’s relatively new design trend, used by many many other apps.

With Android 5 and newer now accounting for more than 60% of all Android devices out there, we had a lot of requests for this, so felt it was time to do it.

As a side effect of this change, Android 5 and newer no longer supports the icon bar along the bottom.

This was reported to Google by myself and others while Android 5 was still in development, and was closed as “working as intended” (i.e. won’t be fixed, and it wasn’t in 6.0 or 7.0 or 7.1).

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=77632

Please note that this does not apply to the app’s “message view” mode or tablets (two panel layout) where we are able to use our own “icon bar” implementation and place it along the bottom.

So the only “views” affected are the app’s main screen (the list of accounts) and the “message list” view.

Even though icons along the bottom on those two screens won’t be coming back … the app has capabilities that make it easier to use it with one hand and not have to reach to the top:

– Floating Action Button for compose
– Swipe down for “check mail”, works on the main screen and in message lists both
– Swipe down (on the left) for “select all messages” in message lists
– Swipe gestures don’t have to be started near the top of the screen
– Floating context bar with icons for “actions on selected messages”, positioned near the bottom.

With that in mind, please see app settings -> look and feel, and enable “floating action button” and “floating context bar”. And then app settings -> message list -> please enable “pull to select” and “pull to refresh”.