Using Outlook for Android in business environments for email and scheduling
I am using the Gmail app on a Samsung S10e. I currently have version 2024.02.04.604829058.
I have also been having authentication problems with my outlook.com account for the last few weeks. I just added the same account using a different email alias, following the steps here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/set-up-email-in-android-email-app-71147974-7aca-491b-978a-ab15e360434c
In initial testing, the newly-set-up account is working OK to synchronise email and calendar.
However, the news in https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/outlook-and-other-apps-are-unable-to-connect-to-outlook-com-when-using-basic-authentication-f4202ebf-89c6-4a8a-bec3-3d60cf7deaef is quite disturbing. It appears that MS will stop supporting Basic authentication against outlook.com email (even using an app password, I assume). But it looks like the replacement (Oauth authentication) will only support POP and IMAP protocols. Thus, third-party email apps - even if they support Oauth - will not be able to synchronise calendar and contact info.
This is a serious loss of functionality! Can anyone at Microsoft speak about whether there will be a way to synchronise calendar and contacts on an Android device using the built-in (Gmail) technology?