since i’ve read this community was created by mods of r/ProtonMail and chose to uncritically believe it, this is the closest we are to an officially lemmy presence, so…just to make sure this question is in every ProtonMail forum:
ProtonMail app on F-Droid when???
Exactly as stated, F-droid won’t allow apps that use Google Play Services for their notifications. It’s being worked on, but there’s not ETA for that change. Not an easy one, I may add.
Believe me when I say, I’ll be one of the first users jumping around like a kid on a Christmas morning when that happens. Not for F-droid itself (I prefer to download from GitHub with Obtanium) but to each one its own…
I’ve read somewhere that Proton Mail does not support notifications without Google Play Services… Not sure if F-Droid allows apps that use Google Play Services…
Yes, they’d need to implement another method of showing notifications.
Yes, please! I always find it surprising that it’s not on F-Droid
ProtonMail app is on the IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repo.
Direct link: https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/ch.protonmail.android
You can add the IzzyOnDroid repo to F-Droid, or Droid-ify
Ok, maybe there is a repository that doesn’t strictly follows the rules of F-droid (not having any dependency to Google). But until there is no dependency, there shouldn’t be an official app there.
Valid point.
That would be lovely. There are few email clients available on fdroid and I’ve had issues with either anti features or getting the other ones to work with pop or IMAP.
Try FairEmail, but it doesn’t seem to have ProtonMail supported out the box and I don’t know or really care how to set it up.
I tried the actual email clients available on F-Droid because I host my own email server; so I am able to open up ports for mail to go in/out from my server. Half of the clients didn’t even sync correctly with that (I’ve been configuring email for ages). I long for proton mail to offer me my backup email address on my phone.
