It has been a while since I posted a lot on here and I think it is time to go back to basics and start that again. Many of you have used our app (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.maildroid), a lot of you are still using our app, some have left to other apps. When we started to develop MailDroid as an alternative email client to the stock and K9 back in late 2009 this forum was one of the most helpful forums that we posted on. We got amazing feedback, good feature requests, and kind words. Fast forward to a few years later and what we have is a lot more mail options in the Play store, less feedback on the forums, overstuffed inbox with requests, and a ToDo list so long that we got lost with it over the last year. What we have decided is to scratch our ToDo list. This list was too tremendous to tackle and we would never get to anything. We obviously have kept a few things on an internal bug list but we want to reach out to the community again for everything else. What can we do better? What can we add? What is lacking from the app? Is there anything you want in an email app that has never been seen? We know for example that:
1. Our rules engine needs a re-write and some more features (help us, what do you want?!)
2. Our navigation bar many people don't like (we are active on this one now, tell me what you want to change)
3. Do you want plugins to other apps? If so, which ones? We know we have been lacking on this one...
We had a lot of pressure to add sMIME and PGP encryption last year and that took a bulk load of time to do and required a lot of effort to speak to multiple channels to get it released globally, but it was finally done. We are also releasing a slew of fixes for that as well. This was one main thing that caused us to lose focus on our task list, but now we need to get back to the basics.
In general, I am not looking for a "your app is bad because it has ads". Yes, we have ads, we are aware, most people have been OK with it for years and it is what allows us to continue to develop this for so long. We want constructive feedback like we used to get. We will listen and will respond. We want to go back to the community since it had helped us make such a great mail client and we know that everyone out there has some thoughts. Please give constructive thoughts and comments, I don't want this to turn into a bashing thread.
1. Our rules engine needs a re-write and some more features (help us, what do you want?!)
2. Our navigation bar many people don't like (we are active on this one now, tell me what you want to change)
3. Do you want plugins to other apps? If so, which ones? We know we have been lacking on this one...
We had a lot of pressure to add sMIME and PGP encryption last year and that took a bulk load of time to do and required a lot of effort to speak to multiple channels to get it released globally, but it was finally done. We are also releasing a slew of fixes for that as well. This was one main thing that caused us to lose focus on our task list, but now we need to get back to the basics.
In general, I am not looking for a "your app is bad because it has ads". Yes, we have ads, we are aware, most people have been OK with it for years and it is what allows us to continue to develop this for so long. We want constructive feedback like we used to get. We will listen and will respond. We want to go back to the community since it had helped us make such a great mail client and we know that everyone out there has some thoughts. Please give constructive thoughts and comments, I don't want this to turn into a bashing thread.