There are a number of electronic mail apps for Android on the Play Retailer. A number of builders of the most important desktop electronic mail purchasers have developed variations for cellular units. Nonetheless, there may be one specifically from Mozilla that, after greater than twenty years, was nonetheless misplaced from the ecosystem. That simply modified with the discharge of an official Thunderbird app for Android.

After a protracted wait, Thunderbird receives an official app for Android

The title Mozilla in all probability sounds acquainted to you, as it’s the developer of the favored Firefox internet browser. The nonprofit basis can also be liable for different helpful open-source instruments. Along with Firefox, Mozilla affords Thunderbird as a reasonably standard electronic mail consumer. The first focus of the app was desktop computer systems and laptops. Now, Mozilla is altering its technique by releasing an official model of its electronic mail consumer for Android.

Apparently, Firefox has had a cellular app for years, so it’s intriguing that it took so lengthy for Thunderbird to have one. Anyway, the wait is lastly over. Mozilla had already launched a beta model of the official Thunderbird app for Android in early October. Evidently the whole lot went effectively through the beta, because it didn’t take Mozilla lengthy to roll out a steady model for everybody.

App developed on the Okay-9 electronic mail consumer code

It’s noteworthy that Thunderbird isn’t precisely a growth from scratch. Its builders constructed it on the open-source code of Okay-9, a veteran electronic mail app that Mozilla acquired. Mozilla has been engaged on the Thunderbird app for Android since 2022 with direct collaboration from the unique Okay-9 staff. So, if you happen to have been a Okay-9 person again within the day, you would possibly see some related options. Nonetheless, the whole lot appears to be like far more fashionable, and the brand new consumer features a plethora of latest choices inherited from the desktop consumer.

If you wish to give Thunderbird a attempt, you’ll be able to obtain it from the Play Retailer proper now.