FYA

This is a pretty serious one: there are no proper E-Mail apps for Android tablets. Yes, I know there is K9, but K9 is only good for phones. Seeing that the K9 people also develop the proprietary (and for-money) Kaitan Mail, which is for tablet and high-resolution phones, I have little hope of seeing K9 being upgraded any time soon to being usable on tablets.

The only alternative I have seen so far is the stock Jelly-Bean(and after) Mail program, which looks decent on my screen and which I use right now. But it also lacks so many crucial features, that I am not happy with it at all. Just to name a few:

Next weekend we are going to have a small hackathon in Berlin to port/fix/implement disk encryption on various Android devices.

Android has full disk encryption since 4.0, but it only works when using regular filesystems, e.g. ext. If you have a device that doesn’t offer proper block devices, because the hardware doesn’t do wear-leveling et cetera, you will probably have YAFFS2 as a file system or something similar that does this on software side. Unfortunately this prevents standard encryption (luks, dm-crypt…) from working. But there is some outdated code floating around that is supposed to implement this, which we will try to update and integrate with current CyanogenMod. More details on the issue can be found here, here and here (in parts).