Gmail For IOS Now Takes Full Advantage Of Your IPhone 6

You haven't had many options for checking Gmail on the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus so far. Unless you're happy with Apple's stock email client, you've typically had to use blown-up versions of earlier apps. You won't have to face that dilemma any more, though; Google has released an update to its Gmail app for iOS that does justice to the higher display resolutions on new iPhones. It's a simple change, but it means that you can see more messages at once (and more of those messages) without sacrificing native Gmail features like labels and stars. Swing by the App Store if you've been jonesing for this upgrade over the past few weeks.

Mobile applications or apps are compact software programs that perform specific tasks for the mobile user. It is a term used to describe Internet applications that run on smartphones and other mobile devices. Mobile applications usually help users by connecting them to Internet services more commonly accessed on desktop or notebook computers, or help them by making it easier to use the Internet on their portable devices.

A mobile app may be a mobile Web site bookmarking utility, a mobile-based instant messaging client, Gmail for mobile, and many other applications. The Web app resides on server and is accessed via the Internet. It performs specified tasks - potentially all the same ones as a native application - for the mobile user, usually by downloading part of the application to the device for local processing each time it is used. The software is written as Web pages in HTML and CSS, with the interactive parts in Java.

This means that the same application can be used by most devices that can surf the Web (regardless of the brand of phone). It is much easier for the mobile user to conceptualize what this means in practice with the download app: click (pay) - download - install - click on icon - run.

With the Web app it’s not so easy: you visit the mobile site and it does things for you - isn’t that just a mobile site, In the real world this shouldn’t matter, but the world has become obsessed by apps - partly due to the awesome power of the Apple marketing machine and some pretty ignorant journalism.

Gmail might be one of the best things to ever happen to email. When Gmail for iPhone came out a year ago, it was a great step in the right direction. It worked pretty well, delivered push notifications, and offered a great Gmail experience for iOS. Now with version 2.0 of Gmail for iOS, we have an updated UI and one of the most requested features—support for multiple accounts. Why Gmail for iOS instead of the Mail app,

You might wonder why bother with a Gmail app at all, when Mail can handle Gmail accounts just fine. Not to mention with the unified inbox, VIP, and other improvements that came in with iOS 6, Mail certainly isn’t as bad as it was in the past. First off, the Gmail app offers real push notifications for when you get email. ] account). For Gmail, Mail checks at best every 15 minutes. Next is just better handling of email. Google is really good at email, Apple, not so much.

Things like emails getting really deleted and not just moved from the inbox, faster search (since you’re hitting Gmail servers directly), replying, getting to all your labels, all these things Mail isn’t great at. Finally is speed. Generally, Gmail has been faster than Mail. Just enter your login info and that’s all the set up Gmail for iOS needs to start. If you’ve been using Gmail in your browser, Gmail for iOS will look pretty similar.

Same color schemes, a lot of the same functions, just smaller. Starting an email is easy, just tap the red icon with the pencil in it and you have a nice compose window. Tap the Cc: Bcc: line to add people to be copied. This is another good time to check if your Gmail web settings are what you want (mine aren’t for example, I want to switch back to reply from the account the email was sent to).

For attachments, you’re limited to pictures or a Scribble. No files (of course) just like Mail really. To reply to or forward and email either tap the reply arrow at the top of the message or the big Reply and Forward buttons below the message. I found that for long emails that are part of a thread, the send and cancel buttons go off screen and you have to drag the compose area down when you’re done to tap send.