5 mo. ago • 96%

The new, rewritten Proton Mail Android app is now available to everyone!

from the team:

Hi everyone,

We're happy to announce that the new, rewritten Proton Mail Android app is now available to all Proton users on the Google Play store!

For everyone on de-Googled Android devices, you can find the APK file here.

We’ve improved performance and reliability, with up to a 5x reduction in crashes since we started rolling out the updated version. Since the first beta, we’ve added back key features:

🗒️ create and manage your contact group lists

🔑 send password-protected emails (i.e. protect your communication with non-Proton accounts)

💣 set an expiration date to your emails

🗓️ jump directly from your inbox to your Proton Calendar

🌗 switch between light and dark mode

🔒 protect the app with biometric lock

This development provides a solid foundation for delivering new features faster in the future.

We’re looking forward to your feedback, and we’re keeping an eye on our UserVoice to help us decide which features to prioritize next.

Best,

The Proton Team

34 comments

PROTON DRIVE FOR LINUX WHEEEEEN????

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- Even more than that I want them to add the windows version functionality to the skeleton that is the Linux VPN client. Seems absurd that I can't make it remember the login password
  
  Also, please give mailbridge autostart options, I really dont need to see the window at all unless the connection isnt working.
  
  20
- Vote here and leave a message to let Proton know how important a Linux client for Proton Drive is.
  
  15
  
  I already voted, thanks
  
  3
- U can use rclone for now.
  
  3
- you can use the android app trougb waydroid in the meantime
  
  -4
Proton Mail used to be available on IzzyOnDroid's F-Droid repository but I can't find it there anymore.

Will it come back? or even better, will it come to the official F-Droid repository?

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- obtanium+apk link
  
  repos are nice, but there will always be a couple of stragglers. Might as well have a work around.
  
  14
  
  Omg thank you for recommending this! This is perfect.
  
  4
  
  I know about Obtainium, thanks, but I prefer to avoid having several different sources for apps. Besides, F-Droid builds apps from source and checks for anti-features, so it's a nice to have check that the app is not doing anything sketchy.
  
  4
Why didn't they put it on F-Droid? And does Proton mail support connecting via SMTP or POP from third party clients, like every other mail service does, yet?

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- POP from third party clients, like every other mail service does, yet?
  
  The native Proton applications are needed due to the encryption of Proton Mail. 3rd party clients do not work for this reason.
  
  9
  
  At least on Windows it works with Thunderbird.
  
  -3
How about unified push support? I've never gotten push notifications from the proton app since I've been using it in 2018 because of the fact that I do not have Google Play Services installed, so I have to actually be like a caveman and manually check my email several times a day.

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- Don't worry, they're keeping an eye on it! But you see, people who are serious about their privacy are a minority and not really their focus!
  
  0
Fdroid when?

9
Sadly still no way to do a "select all" on a search.

9
Did you entirely rewrite the application and then release the update with the update log: "* Stability improvements related to message sending." ???

Edit: to cancel out the negative sentiment, good job. I personally don't really interact with the app enough to notice that it's changed, but if it needed to be done and you did it right, I commend you! Just seems a bit weird that the "what's new" message is so bland. Is it even for the most recent version? The release on GitHub has a completely different changelog.

5
Finally. Protonmail android gets buggy a lot of the time

4
A setting to arrange conversations newest on top, please.

Also, maybe someone here knows what this problem is:
I recently sent a few emails to recipients and they went to the sent folder after, as expected.
But replies to those emails from the recipients do not come into the Inbox, I can only find them in the Sent folder afterward.
What gives?

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- Are those mails hit by any of your inbox rules, which could move or mark them as read?
  
  2
  
  I don't see an option in the android app to affect rules and I don't remember ever making a rule in the web version.
  The only thing I ever changed was to flip on the "conversation view" in web version.
  
  1
Tablet support is still horrible

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Really excited to see conversation view on mobile. Thank you!

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It seems nice ... but where did the archive message button go?

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- They hid it under move to -> archive
  
  1
  
  Ugh... It's wayyyy at the bottom of the list for me (behind a dozen or so folders that I do use, but use far less regularly).
  
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