Comments on: App Review: Sparrow for iPhone

By: s2knet

s2knet — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 13:48:32 +0000

Re: speed issues - i found it prohibitively slow when I cached 1000 messages in the settings. At 50 or so it seemed fine (I cant tell if its caching 1000 per account or overall but i have a lot of accounts config'd which cant help)

By: Brady

Brady — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 17:54:25 +0000

Jailbreak and there is a Push for Sparrow tweak. LOVE IT.

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 22:19:26 +0000

It's a really nice app, but am I the only one who finds it incredibly slow at checking for new mail and switching folders? Seriously, it takes around 30 seconds to load new email for me, connected to a fast Wifi connection.

By: RodrigoCR

RodrigoCR — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 00:22:09 +0000

Does anyone knows why this app has a similar interface to the facebook app, or to the Path app? even gmail app has the menu to the left, is this an specific api for ios graphic interfaces?

By: Kyle Cronin

Kyle Cronin — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:35:39 +0000

This is correct, the accounts and data are completely separate from those in the OS. My guess is that it's not possible for apps to access the mail data in the OS so they had to come up with their own system. It's kind of a pain, especially for people like me that have 2-factor authentication on their Gmail accounts (I had to generate an application-specific password) but it's a fixed cost - once it's set up, it works fine.

By: Stuffe

Stuffe — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:28:40 +0000

I would be interested to understand more about how the accounts work. What from I understand this is a wholly independant mail client with no hooks into the generic mail program, and as such is has no knowledge of your existing accounts and subsequent configuration. As such things like sync for read/unread etc are dependant on your mail server, and not a function of the OS via iCloud etc. This has pros and cons, and is a slight change from the approach of say the makers of replacement calendars which rely on the incumbant accounts and data store and operate effectively as a replacement front-end only, thus allowing you to retain push notifications against the data with the built-in calendar application being responsible for maintaining the server links.

By: Kyle Cronin

Kyle Cronin — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:08:46 +0000

If you're curious, you can see which parts I did first based on the times in the screenshots :)