It's nice to have a google service free app for android. I use a alternative mobile OS (SailfishOS with F-Droid store) where I'm running without these services. It would be nice if the app has polling (like Threema for example).

1. Add an option to "permanently dismiss" the "ProtonMail won't run unless you update Google Play services." The message is highly misleading as (a) it does work, I just don't get push notifications, and (b) I don't have google play services enabled at all so there is nothing to upgrade.

2. Add an option for periodic polling of the server and let us choose: poll once an hour, 15/5/2/1 minutes

Please listen to this. This is a serious matter. Please provide the .APK on your website. I am not using GAPPS and I am not alone here. To be private you have to provide the .APK on your website everything else is just a joke.

I concur to the fore mentioned messages re the goo.gle services dependency.
Please, we all need to have this issue solved. F-Droid would do just fine.
Thank you.

Any news about this request?

+10 for security and privacy

+10 for security and privacy!!

I don't understand anyone who want Protonmail to use the same tools as Google. Google is a complete security breech and invasion to our privacy. If someone wants these added "conveniences" they should go back to Google. Protecting our privacy isn't always convenient. I chose Privacy over convenience. This is why i chose Protonmail. Protonmail...please don't compromise our privacy and security to be competitive, cutting edge, or convenient. If you can make our email more convenient without compromising privacy than do so. Otherwise, i vote to maintain security and privacy as your number one goal.

Remove google dependency and give us f-droid or direct apk download (with update notification)

This is the main reason I use Tutanota...

What if the user can download the app directly from the official site of protonmail.com

I can live without the notifications and check my email "manually"
I can live with downloading the APK install file from your secure website but would prefer F-Droid

But please don't insult your users by keeping this Google dependency.

https://protonmail.com/blog/search-risk-google/

+1 My android is de-googled and Protonmail is near useless without notifications. Whatsapp works, my old email app works, come on Protonmail, there needs to be another way.

I would vote this up, but it is closed. I completely agree with the last comment and don't consider this done. I use protonmail because i do not want to use google. So i do not want to use google services either.

you can use raccoon to avoid google play store http://raccoon.onyxbits.de/

Protonmail needs to remove the dependency on Google Play Services to be taken as a serious privacy orientated email solution. Until this happens unfortunately Protonmail is not ready for mobile use.

PLEASE add an option to periodically poll protonmail servers directly.

Users who are serious about privacy disable all google services, even on stock android builds.

You are currently punishing your most privacy-conscious users by denying them new mail notifications (arguably a major piece of functionality for a mobile app).

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@anonymous - There is an APK (a few minor revisions old) available in admin's response to:

https://protonmail.uservoice.com/forums/284483-feedback/suggestions/12843543-android-apk-download

You are not google free until you remove the dependency on google cloud messaging for mobile notifications. Those of us with no google services on our android can not get notifications, which significantly limits the use of mobile email, if we have to go check it all the time.

Make an option to periodically poll protonmail servers manually!

:( hate having to use ff for my mail please put it on fdroid

you know, if you don't want to deal with f-droid (is it really harder than creating protonmail to begin with?), you could just place a link to *your .APK as a download that you can host yourselves, and I could install it on my phone myself. Then you don't have to deal with any other hosts.