K-9 Mail for Android
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K-9 Mail for Android — Presentation Transcript
- K-9 Mail for Android Jesse Vincent jesse@fsck.com
- Hi!
- I'm Jesse
- I'm a Perl Hacker
- Also, I like to break things
- What is “K-9”?
- What is “K-9”?
- Email client
- For Android
- Why “K-9”?
- My favorite mail client
- mutt
- K-9
- + =
- Didn't it come with a mail client?
- No Search
- No “stars”
- No Self-Signed Certificate Support
- No BCC-Self
- No IMAP IDLE
- No multi-select
- No keybindings
- No IMAP Deletes
- I almost returned my new phone
- It's Open Source
- I could fix it
- “How hard could it be?”
- It's all Java
- ..the last time I used Java...
- I used Mosaic
- Applets were new
- Internet Explorer 1.0 was brand new
- Java is supposed to be “easy” for newbies
- How hard could it be?
- So I got the code
- git clone git://android.git.kernel.org/platform/packages/apps/Email.git
- Only one change REALLY mattered
- Delete from IMAP Servers
- --- a/src/com/android/email/MessagingController.java +++ b/src/com/android/email/MessagingController.java h @@ -455,13 +458,28 @@ public class MessagingController implements Runnable { for (Message message : remoteMessages) { Message localMessage = localUidMap.get(message.getUid()); if (localMessage == null || (!localMessage.isSet(Flag.X_DOWNLOADED_FULL) && + !localMessage.isSet(Flag.DELETED) && !localMessage.isSet(Flag.X_DOWNLOADED_PARTIAL))) { unsyncedMessages.add(message); } } } + for (Message message : localMessages) { + Message remoteMessage = remoteUidMap.get(message.getUid()); + // skip things deleted on the server side + if (remoteMessage != null && message.isSet(Flag.DELETED)) { + remoteMessage.setFlag(Flag.DELETED, true); + } + }
- 8 loc
- I'm done!
- Building K-9 (First time)
- No Makefile
- It's Java
- No build.xml
- “Just build the whole OS”
- No
- 10 Hours
- Worked great in emulator
- ...but not on a real phone
- For “security”
- What now?
- Submit the change to Android?
- I tried
- They hadn't yet figured out the whole community thing
- (It's gotten better)
- I like to share
- How to share?
- Fork!
- Fork the OS?!?!
- What did it take to fork?
- Google Code Project
- What's next?
- Android Developer Account
- Pay $20 to become an Android Market Publisher
- Submit a web form
- Wait <10s
- Profit!
- Oh, wait
- (It's free)
- Jesse, [...] Please inform Motorola tech of this as they have recommended your program but disavow any knowledge of how to fix it, as you are 3rd party. They did though, suggest I contact godaddy, and they did give me your email, so they weren't completely useless. ALSO, IT WOULD BE HELPFUL IF YOU SOMEHOW HAD A PHONE NUMBER ON YOUR SITE, and an easier way to contact your tech people. M. A.
- Writing end-user software is... different
- What did Google think?
- Some:
- But why couldn't you submit patches?
- Most:
- Awesome...
- ...So, there's this feature I want...
- K-9 Today
- I have co- conspirators!
- Authors (by commit count) ● 505 jessev ● 256 danapple0 ● 143 baolongnt ● 45 cketti ● 31 ismarc31 ● 17 young.bradley ● 16 brock.tice ● 5 dumbfile ● 4 tibbetts ● 2 sparrowhawk ● 1 yostinso++
- They write features
- They fix bugs
- They help users
- They make K-9 awesome
- Over 150,000 Downloads
- 1500 “Bug” Reports
- App Ecosystem
- K-9 Mail Locale Plugin
- K-9 Data Killer
- Email Popup
- K-9 features
- Updated UI
- IMAP Push
- Configurable polling
- Multi-folder sync
- “Stars”
- Multi-select
- Message Previews
- BCC-Self
- Signatures
- Multiple Identities
- CRAM-MD5 Auth
- Self-Signed SSL Certificates
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Full-text search
- Lots more!
- Getting started hacking on K-9
- Get the SDK
- (It's free)
- Linux, OSX or Windows
- http://developer.android.com/sdk
- Create an “AVD”
- android create avd --name Fone --target android- 7
- Start the emulator
- emulator -avd Fone
- Checking out the code
- svn co http://k9mail.googlecode.com/svn/k9mail/trunk/ k9
- Create a local.properties file
- sdk.dir=/home/jesse/android-sdk-linux
- Building K-9
- ant debug
- Getting K-9 to your device
- adb install bin/K9-debug.apk
- Send patches!
- googlecode.com/k9mail
- Time to get hacking!
- Come hack on K9 at Frog Cafe tomorrow!
- Thanks!
- Questions? Jesse Vincent jesse@fsck.com