Hydronium: Proton Mail on Ubuntu Touch
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After seeing the Hydroxide app on OpenRepos.net for Sailfish OS, I was inspired to port it to Ubuntu Touch. A few crazy ideas later, and it's now a Rust app that runs the official Proton Mail Bridge instead of Hydroxide (alternative bridge).
So, this means you can now connect directly to Proton Mail with Dekko, or any other e-mail client you manage to get running on your UT device.
Find it in the Open Store: https://next.open-store.io/app/projectmoon.hydronium/
This thread will serve as a basic support/questions thing. For more detailed bug reports. please file an issue in the repository. I am particularly interested in any problems with the bridge itself, especially around the untested secondary mailbox password login.
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@projectmoon
so, if you run this, it generates the secondary password to be used if running Thunderbird to access Proton mail ?
But you did not try that yet ? -
@oldbutndy it works exactly like the bridge on the desktop. See Proton Mail's site for more info.
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Awesome!! I really needed this. The other app in the store was nothing more then a wrapper and did not really worked well.
Other question, there is also TooterB (Mastodon client) and Wisperfish (Signal) in the openrepos.net. Are those apps easy to port to UbuntuTouch? Maybe Wisperfish not at first because there is a Signal desktop app in the store, but the Mastodon apps in the store do not really work (wrapper that not remember your password).
But again, awesome you port this proton mail bridge app.
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Awesome!! I really needed this. The other app in the store was nothing more then a wrapper and did not really worked well.
Other question, there is also TooterB (Mastodon client) and Wisperfish (Signal) in the openrepos.net. Are those apps easy to port to UbuntuTouch? Maybe Wisperfish not at first because there is a Signal desktop app in the store, but the Mastodon apps in the store do not really work (wrapper that not remember your password).
But again, awesome you port this proton mail bridge app.
At this point, calling it a port would not really be correct. It was rewritten from C++ to Rust, and uses the official bridge instead of Hydroxide. But in any case, porting is always possible. Just a matter of how much effort one wants to put it into it. In the case of Whisperfish, there have been several attempts(ish) to port it to UT, but they never got far. The native Axolotl client for Ubuntu Touch was using the same library that Whisperfish uses (and maintains!), but development of Axolotl stalled. It would be great to have Whisperfish on UT. But I am absolutely not ready to undertake something like that, lol.
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