Google’s official Gmail app has had a sordid history. It launched so broken it had to be pulled from the App Store, and when it relaunched, it came without push notifications… a pretty big oversight in an iOS email client. Gmail finally got push notifications, but the app overall still felt a little clunky.
Enter version 1.3. Google says the latest update to their official Gmail app for iOS makes a bunch of under the hood changes to improve animation, scrolling and responsiveness.
Google describes the update:
You’ll notice that many events in the app are just a little bit faster and smoother. Buttons respond to presses a little more quickly, scrolling is smoother and new views transition faster. With this update, we tried to make it a little better with every touch.
We’ve also added one popularly requested feature – when viewing a picture attachment, you can now use a long press (touch and hold) to save it to your photo library.
You can download Gmail for iOS version 1.3 on the iOS App Store.
Source: iTunes
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
3 responses to “Gmail for iOS 1.3 Gets Faster Scrolling, Animations & Attachment Saving”
“when it relaunched, it came without push notifications… a pretty big oversight in an iOS email client.”
Funny how that didnt stop you from touting the amazing all form n no Notification Sparrow App as the greatest email client of all time.
Wow! Gmail for iOS 1.3. Shall I downgrade from iOS 5.1 errrrr…. Nah
It still kicks the native mail app’s butt with one simple and indispensible feature, attach a file while composing. How come Apple still hasn’t included that?