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by stusmall 4146 days ago
The two apps you mentioned are open source. You could just grab them, build them and load them. Here are links to some of the code you'll need: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/Emai... https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/Cale... https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/Exch...

I've never built them outside of a whole platform build so you might (read: probably) will hit issues. This could be a fun project for someone and it sounds like there is demand.
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_lce0 4146 days ago
The f-droid store provides exactly what you described:

https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=aosp&fdid=or...

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zenocon 4145 days ago
That's good info, but I think you missed the part where parent commenter lamented:

> I don't want to spend my whole life on this.

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acomar 4145 days ago
You can get them with cyanogenmod as well, but there's a deeper issue. There's been an outstanding series of bugs with 4.4.3 and 4.4.4 that have prevented exchange from actually connecting running. I haven't been able to even bring up the old email app since upgrading to 4.4.4.
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