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I'm sad to see it go as well. It's my main mail client on Android. The GP on this thread is completely ridiculous. "You're not using Kotlin and instead use Jav

I'm sad to see it go as well. It's my main mail client on Android. The GP on this thread is completely ridiculous. "You're not using Kotlin and instead use Java" is the most ridiculous thing on such an issue I've ever seen. Email clients battery usage is a really hard to get right. Especially since Fairmail gives you so many options on the synching behavior. So much so that a lot of iOS email clients actually store mail credentials on a third party server and sync your emails there to send push notifications. That's an absolutely security nightmare and yet that's somehow ok. Really sucks to have it pulled and even more disturbing to see people here justify it. I can't help but wonder if the person above is a google employee.

crowbahr 4y ago
Java vs Kotlin is a maintainability issue. The reason it's pulled isn't java vs kot: It's refusing to use the modern APIs that are required for it to function on Android 11+. My outline specifically mentions the use of illegal calls which will literally just crash on later android versions. He even has his call stack pasted as a comment.
- yorwba 4y ago
  > The reason it's pulled isn't java vs kot: It's refusing to use the modern APIs that are required for it to function on Android 11+. That's not a reason to pull an app. It's a reason to tell users of Android 11+ that the app isn't compatible with their device, but everyone else should still be able to install it.