Hi Sara,

Thank you for contacting us. With mSecure 5.5.3 we did remove the collapsible headers. The reason for that was to follow Material Design guidelines and UI tools. This also makes our app much faster to load up specially when using hundreds of records. While there are no collapsible headers, we did add the Fast Scrolling feature, which functions like other default Android apps. If you scroll the records list, a tab will appear on the right side of the screen, and you'll see letters of the alphabet which correspond to where you are at in your records list.

Demo:

Because that's a built-in UWP UI feature for Windows 10 apps and Google material design UI tools and guidelines do not provide this function or do not recommend it. We understand that some customers would like to have the collapsible headers in the Android version back. The main reason for their exclusion is for the performance increase that our app has without our custom collapsible headers. We will continue to work on fixes and improvements and if we feel that we can re-introduce the collapsible headers without detrimental performance issues, we will include them in the future.

@Richard Dos Santos

If you sort by Group, the quick scroll option will highlight the Groups. Sorting by Alphabet will highlight the letter of the alphabet the records start with. Sorting by Type will highlight the Record Type, and sorting by Date will highlight the date the records were created on.

Here's a demo of that:

I understand why some customers would want or like the collapsible headers back. Customers seem to have been sorting by Types and collapsing the headers for their record types. That way, they only saw a list of the few types of records they used and expanded the record type they wanted to use. Once the record type was expanded they could scroll to that record within the record type that was expanded. It's not really any faster than using the quick scroll when you have your sort to sort by Types though (though perhaps a bit more precise), but customers don't ever enjoy having features taken away ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 

However, our app performance has increased so much without them and without the tabs. A 2,000 record database now only takes a 2-5 seconds to load instead of the 20-40 seconds it took before. Additionally, the quick scroll let's users scroll through all the records in a second or two, and as you mentioned, users can navigate to particular groups when they want to be more specific anyway. That said, I'm hoping we can add the search as you type feature back to our search function soon to make it even easier to quickly find records in mSecure 5 for Android.