Material 3 improvements, better developer documentation, and more in our May 2024 progress report for K-9 Mail / Thunderbird for Android.

Welcome to our monthly report on turning K-9 Mail into Thunderbird for Android! Last month you could read about how we found and fixed bugs after publishing a new stable release. This month we start with… telling you that we fixed even more bugs. Fixing bugs After the release of K-9 Mail 6.800 we dedicated […]

If you’ve been wondering how the work to turn K-9 Mail into Thunderbird for Android is coming along, you’ve found the right place. This blog post contains a report of our development activities in March 2024.

A new stable release, Android 14 compatibility, Material 3, and a contributor spotlight in today’s K-9 Mail / Thunderbird for Android update.

We’re happy to announce the release of K-9 Mail 6.800. The main goal of this version is to make it easier for you to add your email accounts to the app with Thunderbird’s autoconfig mechanism. With another item crossed off the list, this brings us one step closer towards Thunderbird for Android!

A new year, a new progress report! Learn what we did in January on our journey to transform K-9 Mail into Thunderbird for Android. If you’re new here or you forgot where we left off last year, check out the previous progress report. Account setup In January most of our work went into polishing the […]

When will Thunderbird for Android be released? This is a question that comes up quite a lot, and we appreciate that you’re all excited to finally put Thunderbird in your pocket. It’s not a simple answer, but we’ll do our best to explain why things are taking longer than expected. We have always been a […]

A big Android progress report to carry us into 2024, including some awesome community contributions, Android 14, user experience improvements, improved account setup, and more!

Dear translators, thank you for all the work you’re putting into making K-9 Mail — and eventually Thunderbird for Android — more accessible by translating it to so many languages ❤️

Please join us for our upcoming Thunderbird community office hours on November 29, 2023 at 18:00 UTC. The new office hours format will feature a key Thunderbird guest to talk about the area they specialize in, and open the floor to questions from you!

More improvements to account setup, purging old code, OAuth 2.0 fixes for Yahoo and AOL, and more in our monthly Thunderbird for Android update.

During August 2023, we managed to reach a significant Thunderbird for Android milestone: the beta release of our new account setup interface!

Great forward progress on the New Account Setup, some Material 3 experiments, and more in this month’s Thunderbird for Android progress report.

Apparently our July has been so busy that we didn’t find the time to write up the progress report for June. But a late report is better than no report! Let’s check in on the development of Thunderbird for Android.

Our journey to transform K-9 Mail to Thunderbird for Android involves more than just improving the user interface and adding new features. K-9 Mail is already an important part of the open source ecosystem on Android, and because it lays the foundation for the future of Thunderbird on Android, we believe it’s important to invest in the security health of the software.