UnifiedPush exists and is being used by other apps. There's no reason to stay with Google anymore. I want to degoogle!

Do the developers not read the suggestions on this site?

Bruh. We use ProtonMail the NUMBER ONE reason being avoding google. And they do these kinds of shenanigans.
You know what, they don't have a public friendly issue tracker, they don't accept pull requests, they don't publish their services on f-droid. And now this.
I've recently listened to Techlore podcast, & it seemed like Andy's no different than any other corporate sc@mmers.
Believe me, PM looks like a FOSS service with GPLv3 but it technically isn't, because it doesn't follow OSF standards.

You ask HOW CAN WE IMPROVE PROTON MAIL

But you are obviously virtue-signalling and don't actually care
This GSF thing is many years old. FFS people, we are shedding dipshits like gobble and crapple and microslop, people have had enough so fix your **** or we move somewhere else

Its now 2023 and proton has not resolved this yet??!

I will be letting my subscription go to zero and finding another provider of secure mail and VPN, this is unacceptable and ridiculous.

Why would anyone use ProtonVPN or mail if it requires GSF?

This is even more important now that it's been confirmed that notifications are used for government surveillance (switching to an open source notification solution wouldn't fix this but it would be a good first step). It's ridiculous that this still hasn't had any movement despite the obvious demand and despite the fact that Proton is supposed to be a privacy oriented service.

"...Proton now officially supports GrapheneOS in their annual fundraiser."

I am using GraphenOS and the ProtonMail APK directly downloaded and installed from them & I am still receiving this error. I am wondering if this is only a "Paid" feature of ProtonMail?

As a paid user I want the fundamental notification service for my email to not be conveyed/potentially intercepted by a third party.

At least automatically polling in the background should work.
Especially as Proton now officially supports GrapheneOS in their annual fundraiser.

telegram foss app does it very well. i bet there is censoring concerns with pmail too. https://github.com/Telegram-FOSS-Team/Telegram-FOSS/blob/master/Notifications.md

After finally switching to a de-googled OS for my phone i was quite surprised that a service like ProtonMail would depend on the google services framework to function properly. Please provide an alternative for push notifications

Proton's dependence on a platform from the world's worst offender of corporate surveillance is obviously not ideal. The problem of keeping an app alive in the background without GSF has a simple fix, which is to establish a permanent one-line notification. This is done by Signal, K9-mail, and others.

I just switched my domain's email provider to Proton from a competitor in Switzerland to bring all my paid services under the Proton umbrella as a result of the merging of Proton's plans and the rebranding. As an unexpected result, I will be manually visiting the Proton Mail app and pulling to refresh dozens of times a day until this feature is implemented.

Thank you
Jay

I really like Protonmail, but this is very important. Proton's demographic is much more likely than the average Android user to be avoiding Google. If you guys implemented this, I would instantly upgrade my account to paid.

The fact that this has been talked about for years with no visible progress is concerning. Lots of other open-source apps have GSF-independent notifications; it shouldn't be too hard to take a look at what they're doing if you need some ideas.

I would very much appreciate this functionality as well. Coming from a Huawei phone and more recently a LineageOS device, the lack of push notification support without google services is an annoying issue. Many other push notifications for messaging apps do function without GSF and implementing a similar design with ProtonMail is essential for independent operation. This is especially true for privacy-conscious users who prefer devices without google services installed.

I'm really interested to this improvement. As others users, my phone don't have Google services using a clean Android Vanilla,

I'm also interested to switch my main mail address and subscrive a "Plus" account with Vpn also but a good notification service is very important.

Please advise me when this feature could be ready, I'm at your complete disposition as beta tester.

Thank you in advance and best regards from Italy!

Yes please. I'd like to receive notifications on my google-free phone.

I agree that this would be an excellent feature. There are a growing number of people who are opting for phones without the Google framework installed, and I believe a large number of these people are likely to be ProtonMail users.

As it stands, the ProtonMail Google app works perfectly without the Google framework installed, with the exception of notifications. This is no fault of ProtonMail, and is due to the fact that all notifications on an Android-based phone are handled by GSF, making it much simpler for app developers. It is however possible to use alternate methods to provide notifications.

Another app utilising notifications without a dependence on GSF is Signal.

It would be nice ProtonMail Android app is fully independant of Google Play Services.
Push notifications for the ProtonMail Android app requires Google Play Services to be installed on the devices. Since custom ROMs like Lineage OS generally don't have Google Services included, push notifications won't work with such OS-es.

I second this!!. just switched to Graphene OS, your VPN is GSF independent. It would be great if the Email client was as well.

I am running on a Huawei P40 Pro and I'm not receiving push notifications for my emails, including my paid ProtonMail account is very unfortunate. I have no issues receiving notifications from other messaging apps, such as Facebook Messenger, Snapchat etc.

As stated above, there is a growing number of devices that do not use Google Play Services.