It’s time to finally get a first-class Gmail experience on Windows Phone! The first Gmail app written and designed from the ground up specifically for Windows Phone, is now here.
Why should someone use this app over the native client?
- First-class support for archiving, starred emails, and labels
- Support for inbox tabs (e.g. Primary, Social, Promotions)
- No more broken threads when replying to emails
- Server-side search functionality with support for advanced Gmail search operators
- Toast notifications support for new emails
- Support for multiple From addresses within the same account
- Proper rendering of long HTML emails
- Possible to concatenate multiple accounts under 1 unread counter (for use with a single live tile or the lock screen)
Changelog – Version 1.2:
- New: Added support for uploading photos
- New: Added ability to share photos via the built-in photo viewer
- New: Added support for forwarding attachments from existing emails
- New: Added night mode option for toast notifications
- New: Added support for local drafts
- New: Added support for wide tile (main tile; sender and subject info only)
- New: Added talk-to-text functionality for composing emails
- New: Added “Delete forever” functionality
- New: Added “Mark as spam” functionality
- New: Added “Recent search results” option
- New: Added option to always bcc self
- Bug: Toast notifications no longer randomly turn off
- Bug: When opening a new thread the last unread email is properly displayed, instead of the last thread email
- Bug: Checkboxes are now handled properly when retrieving additional pages
- Bug: Archiving/deleting all emails now properly triggers a refresh
Security & Privacy:
- The application only connects directly to Gmail servers and your password is never seen, processed, or stored by the app. The authentication process is no different than logging into Gmail through your device’s web browser.
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