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    7 months ago

    Cool!

    For the branding couldn’t they just do k-9 by Thunderbird or something similar?

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      7 months ago

      This is also about the App ID, actually mainly. So they keep K9 so that users can get a popup “export your settings, uninstall and install TB Android”. As Android only allows updates with the same app ID and developer key.

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        7 months ago

        They can probably even ease that out if they implement some API in K9 to let another app request data from it - Android has a system for letting apps send data to each other securely

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          7 months ago

          IPC? I mean it can export and import settings, sending that data via the share portal and opening it for import (autodetecting the extension) is really possible.

          Not that I know how to write a single line of Android app code.