I agree with you. It's so weird that they host their VPN app on F-Droid but not their email app. It seems like it wouldn't take too much effort on their part to add Proton Mail to F-Droid.
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I remember reading a discussion somowhere and it seems they won't add ProtonMail app to the F-Droid as it relies on Google Play services for push notifications.
If that's the case, it makes me wonder why they designed it this way. Their main selling point is privacy, yet they are so closely aligned with Google's services? Seems very questionable, especially since other email clients such as K-9 provide notifications just fine on Android.
This is the sort of thing that gives me second thoughts as a paid subscriber about using Proton's services at all.