One feature I’ve struggled with in switching to Android was being able to duplicate Apple’s VIP email notifications. I get a TON of mails, and need to be able to have just the important mails show up on my lock screen.
Samsung’s applications have a feature called “Priority Senders” that can work the same — with NILS (https://play.google.com/
The problem? My old Samsung Galaxy S3 was left at Kitkat, and Google changed permissions on external cards – so my apps that stored data on the external card couldn’t reach it.
I upgraded to Cyanogenmod, but Samsung apps don’t run on non-Samsung images. I’ve tried a handful of third-party email clients and apps; some of them have promising features, but some require sending mail via IMAP to a third party.
My company’s moved to Office365 and allowed Microsoft Outlook. Outlook for Android includes a feature called Focused Inbox that has separate notifications. Now, I can teach Outlook that my priority contacts should go into the focused inbox and get lock screen notifications.
One quirk – Outlook for Android includes a calendar and address book feature, but Gmail doesn’t “see” the contacts and calendar items unless I add the account to the Android mail client. I’ve added the account to Android, but one of the features Outlook supports is two-factor authentication. If Office365 support is blocked to the native apps, I’ll need to find another solution for integrating calendar items and contacts into one place.
