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.

This seems to be such an obvious requirement that I could just shake my head this wasn't the approach from the beginning...

We are here because we don't trust Google... but ProtonMail app needs Google Play Services!!
Nonsense!!
Please, fix it as soon as possible. Meanwhile I won't install your app in my phone.

Any news?

This! It is vital for people in the process of de-googleing

APKMIRROR is also a possibility.

What all the others said. Being a "privacy mail" (That's why I'm a paying customer), could you please make the app available on F-droid. I just installed Copperhead OS and now I can't check my mail on my phone...

Being able to download it through F-Droid and thus being independent from the Play Store would be great.

After reading the sensible explanation
https://protonmail.com/blog/protonmail-threat-model/

and deciding to try Protonmail I was surprised to find that I have to download the mobile Proton email application from a 3rd party.
And even more surprised why Protonmail would promote directly or indirectly and any of the Google Services.

For example, Wire Messenger offers the possibility to download the APK file directly from their website.
Seems like the normal way while F-Droid is pending?

I hope you can offer a f-droid repo to download the protonmail client :)
thank you
voted!

publish a non dependent google play services apk on your site or on crashlytics.

Any news?

I agree....
I don't use fdroid, but a few minutes of work would make a lot of people happy

It's in Aptoide with a trusted download. I use both Aptoide and f-droid, but Aptoide has many more apps. They all aren't free though.

Yes please