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Thunderbird for Android – Open Source Email App for Android (fka K-9 Mail) - thunderbird/thunderbird-android

#Features

  • Thunderbird for Android branding is now available

  • Material 3 Navigation drawer

  • Updated color scheme

  • Allow migrating settings directly from an existing K-9 or Thunderbird for Android install

  • Make use of Glean SDK

  • Add basic feature setup for funding via Google Play subscriptions (we’ll use this for financial contributions)

  • Use […] for outer subject when encrypting the subject

  • Remove “Move/copy destination folders” setting

  • Remove “Folders to search” setting

  • Remove folder push class to simplify folder notifications

    • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldOP
      14·
      5 days ago

      They have been the same team for the past 2 years. I think they have done a pretty good job developing new features thoughtfully and improving the user experience. One thing I’m really enjoying about this release is that they have made it much faster to toggle between accounts.

      If they are confident adding their branding, then I take it as a show of confidence in their work.

  • LiveLM@lemmy.zipEnglish
    251·
    5 days ago

    Let’s fucking goooooo
    Was waiting for this to move off the Outlook app

    Also, for those wanting simple updates, check Obtainium

    • WreckingBANG@lemmy.ml
      1·
      4 days ago

      For anybody having trouble with K-9 Mail and Thunderbird being in the same Release section, add this to Filter APKs by Regular Expression:

      To get only Thunderbird Updates: ^thunderbird-.*.apk$

      To get only K-9 Mail Updates: ^k9-.*.apk$

    • PoorPocketsMcNewHold@lemmy.ml
      1·
      4 days ago

      Speaking off, I’m still having issues adding it, since it still get confused by the k9 original repo origin, even if i try to filter the pre-release .apk’s with the thunderbird name. My bad, still kept the k9-mail repo instead of the thunderbird fork.

      • LiveLM@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        5 days ago

        Weird, for me adding the url and checking ‘Include prereleases’ was enough

  • Nate@programming.devEnglish
    131·
    5 days ago

    Ugh they didn’t keep the same oauth flow so I have to get IT to approve it again for Outlook

    • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldOP
      6·
      5 days ago

      I’m not sure, but that could be connected to the name change K9➡️Thunderbird. They have said that they will maintain parallel releases of both (identical except for the name/branding) for the immediate future. This release appears to be the identical but may (or may not) solve the issue.

      • Nate@programming.devEnglish
        4·
        5 days ago

        Yup, should be the same release, just using a different token and therefore needs approved separately

      • 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de
        61·
        5 days ago

        What do you mean? This is perfectly modern. Material UI and minimal, outline style icon theme. That’s all the rage with web devs nowadays. Amazing.

        (Not that there’s anything wrong with that in this case, that’s the Android style after all. But personally I heavily dislike Material UI.)

        I would say that this UI is ugly though. Spacing is all over the place, the icons don’t look cohesive at all apart from the colors used (for example, rounded vs sharp corners), the yellowed paper looking background color, overuse of bold/italic/colored text (especially multiple of those at the same time), inconsistent display of the same thing (in one screenshot the mailbox name is displayed as “Gmail”, in the other as “[Gmail]”). And so on.

        But that doesn’t mean it’s “outdated”, this would have been equally as bad 10 years ago.

        (I just have a knee jerk reaction to people saying “outdated UI” because usually it’s used as a justification to replacing perfectly well designed UI with a worse version just so that it follows contemporary design trends. Cf the Windows Settings app.)

        • Blisterexe@lemmy.zip
          1·
          4 days ago

          they probably said that because its kinda ugly, but also follows the frutiger metro trend from a decade ago

        • Virkkunen@fedia.io
          1·
          4 days ago

          The app uses Material UI, sure, but it’s anything but minimalist. It feels the dev(s) tried to use and cram as much as possible from what’s available from the design without really thinking of usability. Information density HAS to be lower when using a phone, since the screens as much smaller than a monitor and you don’t have as much precision when using fingers to navigate around.