Enhanced Gmail and Calendar Web App for Android

By Brian Hart#AC
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Have you had a chance to check out Google's web app for Gmail and Calendar on your Android device lately? Google is touting it as "a new and improved experience when you access Gmail and Calendar through the browser" of your Android device. Improvements include things like the user interface to make messaging on the go even easier, along with a "Floaty Bar" that makes common actions, like archive and delete, just one click away.

The reasons given for using the web app model are good ones: Google can introduce new upgrades and iterations of the product far more quickly, not requiring a whole new download for you, the user, each time there is a change. This should also equate to more frequent improvements. Also, Google can much more efficiently share code across multiple platforms, like in the case of a 90%+ code share between Android and iPhone.

If you haven't tried it already, what are you waiting for? Watch the video above, then give it a go on your Android phone. Then, let us know what you think!

[googleblog.blogspot.com]

Brian Hart#AC
Brian Hart#AC
9 Comments
  • The new Gmail Android web app is a nice improvement and I applaud Google for pushing the envelope in mobile web development with HTML5, AJAX and Gears. I'm disappointed though, that Google still doesn't provide the ability to add labels to messages in this or any of their other mobile web versions of Gmail. I like Gmail's use of labels instead of folders but with no way to apply them on the phone the web app is severely crippled.
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  • I use it more than the built-in app. Very nice. And you can access your Google Docs (read-only), Reader, Photos and everything else you normally get from the desktop web version.
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  • Great. What I really need is the ability to save my emails and texts to my google calendar. I have not seen this feature yet. Is it there and I missed it? If it is not there I hope somebody fixes that. I will play a bit more and see. http://pioneerbailbonds.com
  • I still just prefer the app on the phone ... i wish they would upgrade the calendar though
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  • it is better but still not great
    the app is a bit better but it still misses a lot of functions reply with a different email
    canned responses
    easier label management, switch between inboxes etcetra Duplex
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