Hi everyone!
I've recently bought an iPhone as a secondary device, just to satisfy my curiosity. I've been using both iOS and Android (N4) for over a month now, and while I still prefer using Android as my primary, here is one thing that's bothering me: I discovered that the native Email app on iOS detects calendar events that the Gmail app on neither OSes can detect. I've searched the Internet to see if there are specific formats that Gmail requires the event to be written in, but I haven't found anything concrete (Here is a link that asks a similar question, yet with no satisfying response.).
My question is: is there any email client for Android that detects the calendar events similar to how Email on iOS does it? Its a really useful feature, and saves a lot of time and hassle.
I've attached screenshots of the same email on both apps to demonstrate the situation.
Thanks!
Related
Hey folks,
is it at the moment (in the future?) possbile to use a fullfeatured android-system without a google account/being bound to google? I love WM 6.5, because it comparatively is independent of any cloud stuff. Windows Mobile Phone 7 is very closed and lives in the cloud. So how open is android and to what extent is it spy-/adware?
Thx
My thoughts:
I was a WM5/6 user for quite a few years (at least 4+ years). I heavily hacked my WM phones to get the functionality I craved.
After fooling around with various Android ports to my HTC Titan, I decided to give the TBD Verizon Android phone (aka Droid) a chance when it came out. Since that fateful day, I haven't had a single regret. The Droid (and Android) is absolutely amazing.
Prior to my Droid, I had a couple of almost totally unused GMail accounts. I was resigned to the idea that to get the full functionality out of my Droid, I needed to move into the Google "cloud".
I have been amazed at how well everything flows together, now that everything syncs/baselines off of my main GMail account.
I'm not sure how functional the phone will be if you don't have a GMail account. Here is my (probably inaccurate) guess of functionality degradation you will face by not using a GMail account:
1) The Google Market may not allow you to purchase any apps. App purchases are paid through Google Checkout - Which is associated with your GMail account.
2) EMail integration is obviously very well implemented with Google. When a message is sent to my GMail account, it seems like I get it just a few seconds later on my phone. You can also set up your GMail account to poll any of your already existing email accounts from other providers. While not updated as fast as your GMail account, it still operates very well, and also color-codes which email account your messages came from. If you don't want to use GMail, the K-9 Mail app can work as an alternative to the GMail app.
3) Syncing with Google Contacts and multiple Google Calendars won't be available to you. The instant syncing of contacts/calendars is *very* useful, and works totally seamlessly. Again, updating a contact (or event) on the web (or your phone) nearly instantaneously updates the phone / web, respectively. You don't have to worry about losing contacts or calendars anymore. If you already had a GMail account with Contacts & Calendars, all that information is available on your phone within a minute or so after you have powered up your Droid for the first time. (Note: I do have some moderate gripes about how contacts are displayed & grouped on GMail & Android. I hope Google will be addressing these items soon). If your Droid gets damaged and you don't have a GMail account, you will probably have to manually reenter all your contacts / appointments.
4) Other non-Google "push" apps (such as Flight Tracker Pro) probably won't work since they need your GMail address to send their integrated information to your phone to update their app status.
5) Probably a bit of other stuff, but I'm too tired to think right now.
As far as my "who is watching my activity" paranoia level is concerned, I don't have any concerns at all about Google. I haven't seen a single instance in the months I have been using my Droid where Google appeared to be targeting any overtly obnoxious advertising in my direction. (However, if you are still concerned about ads, there is a hack to Android to block all ads). If I had any concerns, I would certainly trust Microsoft less (by a few orders of magnitude) than Google.
I'm not entirely sure how Google is making a lot of money from the Android adoption, other than having more devices natively using Google for searching (which can result in their advertising revenue). But from what I have seen, it is no worse than when you are using Google on your PC to do your web searches.
After using Android for months now, I can't ever see going back to WM6 again. WM6 was incredibly lame in comparison. Web browsing on Android is what I always hoped the WM6 platform would achieve (but never seemed to reach). Android is an amazing OS, certainly comparable to the Apple iPhone in almost all aspects, and exceeds WM6 in most aspects.
My advise would be to take the plunge and get an Android phone & GMail account set up. Try it out. If you don't like the OS (or Google cloud stuff), you can always return the phone within a couple of weeks for all the carriers, and go back to a WM6 phone.
The only thing you really need a google account for the Market. I have all syncing (mail, contacts and calendar) turned off and auto sync turned off. I believe you have to leave background sync turned on but that's it.
For everything else I use a hosted exchange account.
if you can live without google voice and google talk, then yeah. It is a fully functional OS. Market is not essential to core functionality and you can always install apks directly from sdcard as well as switch your search engine to whatever you prefer.
Hi All,
First off, I would like to state I tried with my limited capabilities to search for the topic on both Google and XDA and didnt turn up anything useful.
I have been a winmo user for the last 3+ years, but recently switched to Blackberry after relocation to UAE since they have the most lucrative data bundles. I think its a very handy utility device but i miss the fun factor of WinMo and trying out new things so last week I went ahead and bought an HD2.
Now coming to my question, the thing i noticed was the lack of integration of the different applications with the underlying OS. If some of you have used a blackberry you would be familiar with the 'universal inbox' and integrated notifications from LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter (among other social networking applications) with the messaging architecture of the OS. I am looking for something similar for Windows Mobile, Facebook and twitter applications which provide updates/notifications on the home screen if not a single inbox.
Pardon me if its something trivial, but i'm coming back to Windows mobile after a 8 mth gap and probably need to re-learn a few things
Is it possible to look up contacts from the GAL with the email client?
Thanks
moosic said:
Is it possible to look up contacts from the GAL with the email client?
Thanks
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Maybe this thread could be about all Exchange issues / tips ?
Would be cool.
I don't have answers to the OP here just some points:
1. I read either on here or another forum that your customized folders in Exchange did not show up on Captivate. Can anyone deny / confirm?
2. I don't see why contact GAL lookup won't work, it worked on my Aria. But then again also my Exchange customized folders showed up just fine on Aria.
3. Dialing from Calendar entry on Captivate no worky? Really? Sounds unlikely but can anyone confirm / deny?
You are able to do lookups within the email client on the gal. Simply press the search button, this will take you to a lookup field.
My folders all synced with my exchange account. Its more like a fake sync.it pulls when selected.
I have not been able to lookup phonenumbers through the gal.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App
The default email client leaves a lot to be desired when dealing with Exchange support. Yes, you can have customized folder but navigate them isn't that easy. For example, I have more than a dozen folders under my inbox folder, they all showed up as tabs along side the Inbox. There is no way to configure which folder to sync and which doesn't.
The calendar also showed my meetings wrong. I have a few repeating events with a few exceptions, e.g. I delete a few meetings in certain weeks. After sync, the calendar on my phone ignores all those exceptions/deleted meetings.
I'm going to investigate other Exchange support apps. The stock app really stinks.
bwolmarans said:
Maybe this thread could be about all Exchange issues / tips ?
Would be cool.
I don't have answers to the OP here just some points:
1. I read either on here or another forum that your customized folders in Exchange did not show up on Captivate. Can anyone deny / confirm?
Customized folders do show up, along the top bar of the main email client window. Swipe or tap to change folders.
2. I don't see why contact GAL lookup won't work, it worked on my Aria. But then again also my Exchange customized folders showed up just fine on Aria.
Compose or reply to an email. Below the TO and CC fields are four buttons. One is SEARCH. That does a GAL lookup.
3. Dialing from Calendar entry on Captivate no worky? Really? Sounds unlikely but can anyone confirm / deny?
Works just fine for me.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Some other tips.
Make messages easier to read and MUCH easier on the battery by going to Menu/Display Mode and picking "Positive Mode". Wish Gmail would do this too, white background is not AMOLED friendly at all (uses MORE power than an LCD would use).
Check your signature...you may or may not want to advertise you're "using an i897 on AT&T 3G Network". Account Settings/Signature.
Check message size, it's probably set too low by default, unless you're really trying to conserve a few kb of data. Advanced Settings/Email Size.
What format are your telephone numbers in your calendar?
888 123-4567
8881234567
Don't work for me. They are in the body of the calendar entry.
Rizz67 said:
I have not been able to lookup phonenumbers through the gal.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I have not been able to lookup people by phone number (useful when you get a call from your office that you don't recognize the number) since I got rid of the first gen blackberry I had many years ago.
And that's including a year that I had the tilt (A Windows phone you'd think they could make their own stuff work together.) And I still can't with the Aria I have now (until next week Wed. when my Captivate arrives, and then I won't be able to with my Captivate. )
Sad that Exchange integration was better with the blackberry 6 years ago than it is with today's latest Android devices.
sadly the gal search only provides me the email address, not the phone number or any other gal information. Or does it for you? Am I doing it wrong?
It must be that somebody at Android and or Samsung owns stock in Touchdown / Nitro ???
It's probably due to the limitation of Exchange ActiveSync protocol.
P.S. dialing from calendar doesn't work for me either when the phone number is in event body.
foxbat121 said:
It's probably due to the limitation of Exchange ActiveSync protocol.
P.S. dialing from calendar doesn't work for me either when the phone number is in event body.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
The GAL lookup fubar is not the EAS protocol. It works on other platforms just fine. I think it is a Samsung issue - i will test later on my Moto phone and see what they return in a GAL lookup.
As for calendar dialing - I want to see some proof of someone doing this with an Exchange entry. I have tried new entries in Exchange and Google with a phone number in body and location - nothing works. URLs don't work either.
The entire calendar entry is treated as an unelectable blob.
alphadog00 said:
The GAL lookup fubar is not the EAS protocol. It works on other platforms just fine. I think it is a Samsung issue - i will test later on my Moto phone and see what they return in a GAL lookup.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I don't remember if it works in WM or not (never tried even though I've been using WM exclusively in the past). But according to posts above by bwolmarans, it didn't work for his Tilt either. Remember BlackBerry doesn't use EAS at all. You need to setup BES server in order to communicate between Exchanger server and BB.
foxbat121 said:
I don't remember if it works in WM or not (never tried even though I've been using WM exclusively in the past). But according to posts above by bwolmarans, it didn't work for his Tilt either. Remember BlackBerry doesn't use EAS at all. You need to setup BES server in order to communicate between Exchanger server and BB.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
It works fine on iPhone - they licensed EAS, and I am pretty sure it worked on my WinMo phone. I have another Android 2.1 phone I want to try it on.
As further information, I could not get my GAL to work in the stock email client. After reading another forum thread, I installed "Swift Contacts" from the market. This unlocked the GAL functionality in the stock client as well.
I need to replace my laptop by the note 10.1 . In order for me to do that I need the mail i receive to appear exactly as they are now on my LT using Thunderbird or outlook, that is in folders ( actually many) in a split mode to the left , each showing a new message or not, and the right part of the screen is showing all the messages of the folder that is touched. The same way an ordinary client with folders behaves.
I need also this arrangement to be in POP3 and not IMAP, so when the ,messages are downloaded, it stay in the folders for good.
The arrangement I have for the folders set up on my galaxy SII ( native email client or Maildroid not satisfying at all. I have to have the folders in separate page, the flip to the content in a second page.
Can someone tell me that can happens ? and what is the email client name ?
One more question please, can I backup my files/email from the note to removable disk ? I can not back up Online/On air because of the limited data plan.
I would appreciate any response to that , thanks in advance .
The simple answer is you cannot replace your tablet with your laptop full time, as far as getting the same email experience I think again have not used it but you can get it on a w8 tablet the problem with note is when you write an email the onscreen keyboard comes up and takes ups almost 1/3 of your space even if you have an external keyboard and becomes even worst with the email app so no you will not get the same exact experience
But yes the email and gmail apps are full fledge apps which can do almost all that outlook can do only when it comes to email
samir_a said:
The simple answer is you cannot replace your tablet with your laptop full time, as far as getting the same email experience I think again have not used it but you can get it on a w8 tablet the problem with note is when you write an email the onscreen keyboard comes up and takes ups almost 1/3 of your space even if you have an external keyboard and becomes even worst with the email app so no you will not get the same exact experience
But yes the email and gmail apps are full fledge apps which can do almost all that outlook can do only when it comes to email
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thank you Samir for your detailed answer. I have the same problem with any email client on my galaxy SII, I have only one line to type. I hope as you said that the email and gmail apps can do as the outlook, because they do NOT do that on my phone. The UI is far from what I want and not comparable at all to that on my LT( see the attached pic).
But on principle, sine all I do on my LT is to email and write letters via MS office ( really nothing more) , I feel confident that I can almost replace my LT with the tablet , if only can be sure from the way that the email clients will behave on the tablet.
Thanks again.
Give touchdown a try. I set this up for staff at work, gives you pretty much what Outlook does; of course ui is a little diiferent to Outlook, but quite a full featured email client for android.
Sent from my GT-N8000 using XDA Premium HD app
wc74 said:
Give touchdown a try. I set this up for staff at work, gives you pretty much what Outlook does; of course ui is a little diiferent to Outlook, but quite a full featured email client for android.
Sent from my GT-N8000 using XDA Premium HD app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
May be there is something I did not mention before. My email accounts are not corporate , one of them is a personal gmail, the other is a business one on a domain hosted by a company.
That should not be a problem as gmail supports pop or imap and the domain one also should do the same
---------- Post added at 04:16 AM ---------- Previous post was at 04:13 AM ----------
When I mentioned full featured it was only with respect to mails and not address book calender etc and what i ment was in terms of opening attachments and so yes there are lots of things you cannot do cant have an html signature limited options with send and receive cannot make and define rules and so on
A friend of mine is getting her first ever smartphone and I want to help her transition as smoothly as possible. She will not give up her Hotmail account, so I need to find an app that will give her access to her emails, and preferably gives push notifications and allows easy attaching of documents.
I've been suckling on the Google/GMail teat for years and was mildly surprised when I 'unfroze' the native email app - it seems pretty decent. But it only gives options for attaching of pictures or videos, unlike the GMail app which has a generic 'attach file' button. Obviously I know that I could find my document using a file browser or other app and then 'share' it to the Email app, but this sort of 'well you can't do it this way, you have to do it that way' crap is what I want to avoid for my friend. I want everything to be obvious, easy and for her introduction to Android to be effortless.
Any suggestions, please? A free email app, with push, and easy file attachments of all types.
EDIT: I have just signed up for a Hotmail account so I can test apps myself. The Outlook.com app seems alright - anyone got experience using it? Any fatal flaws?
Try using [email protected] Mail Pro app. I use it since it pretty much unifies all of my email accounts in a neat way with plenty of customizations available for your taste. I especially like the fact that unlike with the built in app, I can create a unified email widget for all my accounts instead of having multiple widgets and it allows me to attach any kind of file, and has a pretty advanced editor. Try the free version first and see if you'd like to upgrade to the pro.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.onegravity.k10.free
Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk
I use Aqua Mail which works very well for me, can sync with POP and IMAP accounts. Link https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kman.AquaMail.
Thanks guys, but after testing it myself I think my friend will be happy enough with the Outlook.com app (although the interface certainly isn't to my taste, it is simple enough and does what she needs).
Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk