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Introducing the Gmail app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch

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Re: Introducing the Gmail app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch

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Post by daniel02216 »

Pewpewarrows wrote: post #14
cwilson wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've overheard lots of discussion from iOS developers lately on this becoming a new trend. As certain apps increase in complexity the old Facebook home screen style becomes much less scalable, and this new method seems to be the answer. My guess is we'll see at least another half dozen popular apps take on this style as well.

For us users that don't own an iOS device, what is this sliding panel effect you're discussing?

On the blog post, check out the image labeled 'Swipe right to view labels'.

Also, it's Facebook for iPhone's profile picture: https://www.facebook.com/iphone

Re: Introducing the Gmail app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch

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Post by nyrb »

I was hoping to see the native Gmail app that can support multiple accounts, but it is currently not. Oh well. I'll stick with Mail for now.

It look like the native Gmail itself is a browser and navigate to Gmail Mobile website. Thus is the reason why the native app only can hold one account at a time.

Re: Introducing the Gmail app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch

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Post by Lewisham »

I'll echo other comments here that this looks like it needs a bit more work.

* Notification error on startup: ridiculous

* Laggy scrolling (how?)

* No support for Send As, which is actually what is really missing from the iPhone Mail app.

It's almost there. It needs a bit more love.

Re: Introducing the Gmail app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch

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Post by OiNutter »

sidwyn wrote: post #2

Interesting how they decided to copy the sliding panels from Facebook for iPhone. I wonder if it will become a standard on iOS.

Yeah, would be a nice UI feature if it didn't cut off some of the labels, including Google's own "Important and unread" (at least I think it's that, the end is cut off...)

Think I'll just keep this app around for those odd times when I have to find an email from a week ago.

Re: Introducing the Gmail app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch

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Post by digitalclubb »

Searching for mail or finding 'labelled' archived content on the default mail client was a real pain and this app answers those questions but as previously mentioned..

No multiple accounts? I have several Gmail accounts that I need to manage on the fly, and it is indeed quite 'laggy' when you have images or heavy content in the email body (which it doesn't scale down!)

All in all, it's a step in the right direction and about time this app came to market - let's just hope they resolve the issues and tweak the overall user experience.

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