1.5.7-27-dev1.3

[Kostya Vasilyev]

http://www.aqua-mail.com/download/AquaMail-market-1.5.7-27-dev1.3.apk

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+ Updated translations

+ Fixed Exchange 2007 mail sync issue ("folder missing on the server" error).

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+ Обновил переводы

+ Исправил проблему с проверкой почты в Exchange 2007 (ошибка "папка удалена с сервера").

[stevealb]

As you look at email, I was wondering whether you would consider a design change. When receiving an email with an attachment, there's a second panel that contains the attachment and buttons to save, download, etc. While that's OK for attachments, that's also is the design for calendar invitations in exchange. So that second panel contains the calendar information and the buttons for Accept, Reject, Tentative. It also includes any text the sender might have written in the invite.

Is it possible to have the invite with any text written by sender, response buttons, and View in Calendar in one panel, and that it be the main panel? The side attachment panel is very busy, not well laid out, takes an additional swipe to get there, and the main message panel is blank.

Also, in exchange, emails can have categories just like calendar items. Would that be something you would consider adding as well? Thanks.

[Kostya Vasilyev]

I agree that attachments could be presented better, and calendar invites too -- but the two are related, even for Exchange.

There is a scenario where an Exchange invite stops being an invite, and has to be opened as an attachment. There may also be users who'd like to open an Exchange invite as an .ics attachment (there are Calendar apps which works with .ics format, including Google's own Calendar app since a month or so).

So putting it shortly: I'd like to improve both of those, but there are non-obvious edge cases.

About categories -- won't be able to work on it in the short / medium term.

[robdee]

Hi Kosta
Thanks for all the continued improvements and updates
Do you have plans to be able to back up our AquaMail settings on Google drive?
Thanks


Thank

[pyler]

I woukd like see it too.

Btw, Kostya, there is a new appcompat lib release, it allows material styled dialogs! Check it, it should not take too much time to add them.

[Kostya Vasilyev]

>> Do you have plans to be able to back up our AquaMail settings on Google drive

Not right now, the API (what apps use to interact with Google Drive) is absolutely insane.

Dropbox -- takes a few lines of code.

Drive -- "let's make it as complex as we can, hey, developers love a challenge, right?"

>> there is a new appcompat lib release, it allows material styled dialogs! Check it, it should not take too much time to add them

I don't use AppCompat, and don't think that trying to emulate every aspect of 5.0+ on 4.0+ devices is a worthwhile goal.

If Google wants Material Design to spread more, they need to work harder with manufacturers so they release system updates.

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Spent half a day recently debugging wrong scroll bar sizes on Android 5.1 (and only 5.1, not 5.0).

Tracked it down to a change made to "Update scrollbars to match Material spec"

https://plus.google.com/+KostyaVasilyev/posts/1JSKJ9hQtar

Those "non material scroll bars" in Android 5.0 were sooooo wrong, that someone had to make a change and break them?

Fuck material design. Fuck material design. Fuck material design.

And the people who came up with it.

And the people who are implementing it into Android.

And the people who made every user hungry for it.

Fuck you, "Google's best", you're like dogs who lick their balls when they have nothing better to do, but unlike dogs, you cause other people suffering and grief. Fuck you.

[robdee]

Sorry to have hit a nerve with the Google drive idea. Had no clue. So how about backing up to Dropbox or something equivalent?

[mikeone]

Sorry to have hit a nerve with the Google drive idea. Had no clue. So how about backing up to Dropbox or something equivalent?

Dropbox is already provided.

[Kostya Vasilyev]

It would be easy to add Box.com (others??? I take requests).

But Google Drive -- I did look into it, it's insane.

[Kostya Vasilyev]

We'll see if OneDrive has a "reasonable" API or an "insane" one

[pyler]

It would be crazy to have MS's OneDrive and Google Drive not.

Edit:
Well, I checked it. API are really crazy, simple uploading requires tons of code. But we may have a simple workaround. For these with installed Google Drive app, you can use simple intents to upload (action send/share) and download backup file (action pick). Only a few lines of code.

[Kostya Vasilyev]

>> download backup file (action pick). Only a few lines of code

That's the thing.

Google Drive does not support ACTION_GET_CONTENT

To get a file from Drive, one has to "connect, authenticate" -- which is pretty complex, and then the real issue is that -- during the process, the user will have to grant AquaMail read access to his Google Drive.

I don't want access to user's Google Drive, I just want the user to pick one file and return to me.

[Kostya Vasilyev]

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14063003

[Kostya Vasilyev]

@pyler -- I just tried this:

final Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_GET_CONTENT);
intent.setType("*/*");
intent.setPackage("com.google.android.apps.docs");
startActivity(intent);

And got a crash:

04-26 20:06:53.893 E/AndroidRuntime( 7300): android.content.ActivityNotFoundException: No Activity found to handle Intent { act=android.intent.action.GET_CONTENT typ=*/* pkg=com.google.android.apps.docs }

Picking files same way from Dropbox, Box.com and OneDrive works fine (Dropbox already supported by Aqua, and I just tried the other two).

Something else those apps do right, and Google Drive doesn't -- when you pick a file that has not been downloaded to the device yet, those apps first download the file, then return it to the caller app (AquaMail in this case).

With Google Drive, it returns immediately and then downloaded when opened, so there is a noticeable delay (black screen) on slow connections.

So Microsoft is better at making Android apps than Google?

[pyler]

New mail - Attach file - Google Drive (pick file, then hit Select). File is downloaded without screen problems and correctly attached.

So use this "picking" intent instead.