The application is starting to show some real progress

Jul 13, 2015 07:33 GMT  ·  By

Dekko is a native IMAP email client for Ubuntu Touch and is coming along just fine. From the looks of it, developers are not only working to make it work on the phone but to also scale and properly function on the desktop as well.

Canonical is working towards converging the mobile and the desktop platforms under a single umbrella. That means that both platforms will be using the same code underneath, but there is more to it. Developers need to be able to build apps that work on a converged platform, in this case, an Ubuntu OS that has the same framework on the desktop and the phone.

Some applications are already doing this with some success, like the default browser for Ubuntu Touch that also works quite well for desktop users, or the music player, which is also converged. The idea is not to port apps from one platform to another, but to be able to build a single app that works anywhere. Dekko aims towards that, and from the looks of it, it's getting there.

Dekko is going to be the email client for Ubuntu Touch

Canonical Michael Hall said almost a year ago that Dekko is going to be native email client for Ubuntu Touch, and it looks like things are finally coming together. To be fair, this is not a project done from scratch, it's actually based on another light-weight client called Trojitá.

Developer Daniel Chapman explained that new features are landing for the email client and that users will start to see changes in the coming weeks. "Spent the last few days adding some new features to Dekko. It's still early days, but if you have Dekko installed from the core-apps ppa you will see these new additions arriving over the coming weeks. Convergence ftw!" wrote Daniel on Google+.

You can download the Dekko email client on Ubuntu Touch right now from the official store, but please keep in mind that it's still in the Beta stages.