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Quello che voglio segnalarvi oggi, riguarda l’aggiornamento di una importante applicazione nel Play Store. Dopo ben nove mesi di assoluto silenzio infatti, K9 Mail uno di client mail più apprezzato del panorama android si aggiorna arrivando cosi alla versione 4.4. Le novità introdotte da tale aggiornamento sono molte tra cui una nuova interfaccia in stile Holo, nuovo widget e notifiche supplementari (Android 4.1 e superiori) con tanto di nuova icona nella barra notifiche (android 2.3 e superiori). A seguire il changelog.

K-9 Mail 4.4 changelog:

Miscellaneous

• Switched to a more holo-themed user interface
• Added a split screen setting to display message list and message contents side by side
• Added dialog to show the changes since the last update of K-9 Mail
• Added screen to notify the user of database upgrades after updating K-9 Mail
• Improve integration with third-party apps

Notifications

• Added rich notifications on Android 4.1+ devices
• Changed the notification icon (Android 2.3+ only)

Options

• Removed “Manage back button” setting. The back button now always goes to the previously displayed screen.
• Added new color picker to select account colors
• Unified some account settings into “General Settings” and “Reading Mail”
• Removed “compact layout” setting

Reading mail

• Fixed inability to zoom out when viewing messages
• Added setting to automatically shrink messages to fit the screen width
• Improved display of messages decrypted with APG
• Removed “system zoom controls” setting (zoom controls will only be shown on devices that don’t support pinch-to-zoom)
• Added work-around for the auto-scroll issue of the message view on Jelly Bean
• Moved “show all headers” into the menu of the message list
• Changed colors of the quote dividers

Message list

• Added message threading (note: this is not the same as Gmail’s conversation view)
• Added a setting to display contact pictures in the message list
• Changed from chips to colored circles that also indicate the (un)read state
• Added pull-to-refresh to check for mail
• Use different background for read messages in message list

Folder list

• Improved last folder update time formatting
• Added support for wrapping long folder names in the folder list

Widget

• Changed appearance of the unread widget
• Added support for “Unified Inbox” and “All messages” to unread widget

Notable bug fixes

• Added notification on SSL certificate validation failures
• Worked around “>” getting included in URLs when linkifying text/plain emails
• IMAP: Fixed SPECIAL-USE detection of Spam folder
• IMAP: Fixed a bug that caused messages to be lost when “moved” to a non-existant folder