I was very surprised that such a mature app would have such a trivial limitation, but what can you do. The GMail app is keying accounts by username only, and since my account happens to have the same username as my Google account, I’m locked out. However, when I tried adding my account I got “Duplicate account – you’re already using this username for the account It’s pretty clear what’s going on here. This is virtually the first thing everyone does when they get their phone, so no surprise there.
I’ll share my story here for the benefit of others (and future self).Īdding the GMail account was, naturally, easy and effortless. I had a GMail account and an account (also and I wanted to sync both to my Android device using the native apps, primarily GMail and Calendar (I usually prefer native apps to third party ones such as the Outlook app).But what should have been a trivial exercise ended up as a complicated, non-user friendly ordeal. TLDR – scroll to the bottom for a checklist of what you need to do Synchronizing native Android G Suite apps (GMail, Calendar, etc.) with accounts
