Pity they can't just get contacts working with the IOS mail client.
Even more a shame since their Web app is pretty good.
FastMail app for iOS and Android now available
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Re: FastMail app for iOS and Android now available
#12Awesome work fastmail team. I'll give it a try but, I doubt it'll replace K-9 for me.
Any plans on open sourcing the app(s)?
Re: FastMail app for iOS and Android now available
#13I've been no waiting for this for so long! I have been using K9, and I love using a FOSS email client, but having native Fastmail support is just so much better. The native AOSP email app, for example, doesn't even allow you to choose which email address to send from when replying (that, or it's so hidden that I was unable to find it.) Unfortunately, like most AOSP apps, it's been effectively deprecated in favor of t…
It was actually a really interesting development process. We already had the web app, and our main UI developer is an Apple guy, so he took on the iOS version. Meanwhile I'm primarily a Linux guy and work on FastMail's backend services, but also an Android user, so I did the Android version. What it meant is that the other guy could make supporting UI tweaks as he needed, and I could make supporting backend tweaks as…
Thanks for your work on the android app. I've just tried it and it seems great so far.
Re: FastMail app for iOS and Android now available
#14Awesome work fastmail team. I'll give it a try but, I doubt it'll replace K-9 for me. Any plans on open sourcing the app(s)?
actually, nevermind. I see (at least on android) that all this bacially is a webview of the default mobile interface. (which works quite nicely by the way...)
Re: FastMail app for iOS and Android now available
#15I have been using fastmail for a month now after switching from gmail. I quite like it, but the two drawbacks are that it's just a little bit more likely to let spam in than gmail, even with aggressive spam options enabled, and with fastmail I'm missing out on the growing gmail ecosystem (Streak, Dropbox mailbox app, others).
It's fine though, I really am happy to be paying for an email service instead of depending on Google. I am quite happy with everything else. Really easy to set up and integrate. Works well with Android's email app and Mail.app. The webmail isn't terrible but I just use it to report spam. Having an Android app now is super exciting.
Re: FastMail app for iOS and Android now available
#16Awesome work fastmail team. I'll give it a try but, I doubt it'll replace K-9 for me. Any plans on open sourcing the app(s)?
actually, nevermind. I see (at least on android) that all this bacially is a webview of the default mobile interface. (which works quite nicely by the way...)
There's more in there than just the webview: all the push channel and notification stuff, a JMAP client, a Gravatar client and cache, sharing stuff, smartwatch hooks, etc. That said, none of it is particularly interesting or difficult.
No plans to open source it at the moment, but we might if there was sufficient demand.
Re: FastMail app for iOS and Android now available
#17Wonderful! I wait for it quite a long time. it has already have good interface in safari iOS, but I prefer a handy app
Re: FastMail app for iOS and Android now available
#18I have been using fastmail for a month now after switching from gmail. I quite like it, but the two drawbacks are that it's just a little bit more likely to let spam in than gmail, even with aggressive spam options enabled, and with fastmail I'm missing out on the growing gmail ecosystem (Streak, Dropbox mailbox app, others). It's fine though, I really am happy to be paying for an email service instead of depending o…
We're talking to Dropbox about mailbox app - hopefully it will support us soon, as with everything it's a matter of engineering resources.
We're also talking to many companies about a better API for everyone - the draft spec is at http://jmap.io/ - it's based on the API that our app already uses.
Re: FastMail app for iOS and Android now available
#19Pity they can't just get contacts working with the IOS mail client. Even more a shame since their Web app is pretty good.
We're working on that as well, it's just taking a little longer than the app did, so we released the app first.
Re: FastMail app for iOS and Android now available
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
It was actually a really interesting development process. We already had the web app, and our main UI developer is an Apple guy, so he took on the iOS version. Meanwhile I'm primarily a Linux guy and work on FastMail's backend services, but also an Android user, so I did the Android version. What it meant is that the other guy could make supporting UI tweaks as he needed, and I could make supporting backend tweaks as…
Fastmail is part of the open web. So why a proprietary client, instead of joining in with K9?
It's basically our existing web client, but hooked in to Google's notification service.
What we are hoping to do (quite soon) is switch to pure JMAP for the app's communication to the server - http://jmap.io/
At that point, k9 will be able to get the same great push notification system and efficient updates by implementing a JMAP backend.