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With the Sun-setting of Google+ in March, will you be pushing an update to Mail.dll?

We would like to plan work related to upgrading Mail.dll, if you will be releasing a new version to circumnavigate Google+.

Thank you!

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Generally Mail.dll doesn't really on Google+. I think the only call we use is the one to get user's email in oauth scenario; it's https://www.googleapis.com/plus/v1/people/me endpoint. Do you know if this will be retired as well?
I cannot confirm or deny which endpoints are being removed from Google+, specifically.

However, by the looks of this documentation, it appears to me that it will be deprecated/retired:
https://developers.google.com/+/mobile/android/api-deprecation

Should we expect an update to Mail.dll?
Definitely there will be an update. We are looking for replacement right now, as it seems that this call is being deprecated.
Do you have any updates as to when we can expect this update to be useable?
New version was released just now. See download section:
https://www.limilabs.com/mail/download

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New release is going to include following changes:

1)

You should be using GoogleScope.UserInfoEmailScope instead of GoogleScope.EmailScope:

Before:

Scopes = new[] 
    { 
        GoogleScope.ImapAndSmtp.Name, 
        GoogleScope.EmailScope.Name
    }

After:

Scopes = new[] 
    { 
        GoogleScope.ImapAndSmtp.Name, 
        GoogleScope.UserInfoEmailScope.Name
    }

Right now EmailScope still works with the GoogleApi.GetEmail API, however I'm not sure if that will be true after March.

2)

Use GoogleApi.GetEmail instead of GoogleApi.GetEmailPlus:

Before:

GoogleApi api = new GoogleApi(token.AccessToken);
string userEmail = api.GetEmailPlus();

After:

GoogleApi api = new GoogleApi(token.AccessToken);
string userEmail = api.GetEmail();

For now GetEmailPlus is going to fallback to GetEmail on failure.
GetEmail uses https://www.googleapis.com/userinfo/v2/me endpoint.

3.
There is no need to turn 'Google+ API' in developer console anymore.

New version is going to be released soon.

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