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by projektfu 1525 days ago
I like Fastmail's app but I have different Fastmail for work and home. I don't want to connect them and I don't want to switch between them in one app. For now I have Fastmail for work and I use Apple Mail for home, but in the past I have used K9 Mail for this sort of situation.

I wonder why it's not permitted to have multiple instances of an application with different configurations.

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It is possible, with a work profile, (though I'm not sure how one sets up their own profile without a corp-managed device): https://support.google.com/work/android/answer/6191949?hl=en
I don't use Android anymore but I used to do this with Shelter : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.typeblog.s...
An app like Shelter: https://f-droid.org/packages/net.typeblog.shelter/

It's an alternative to Island, except it doesn't have analytics (Insular is a fork of Island w/o that, but Shelter is a newer and better app imo)