Last night Gmail 5.0 apparently began to
rollout, bringing Material Design goodness
and even support for email accounts from
other providers including Yahoo, iCloud Mail,
Outlook and basically any account that
supports IMAP/POP or Exchange.
Having the ability to place all your accounts
under one roof is a welcome change, and
means that you no longer need to juggle
multiple email clients. Of course the existence
of Inbox (which doesn’t support other account
types) kind of gets in the way of this “one
email-app to-rule them all” philosophy — but I
digress.
As for the Material Design changes in Gmail
5.0? Gone is the gray coloring that was pretty
everywhere in the previous version of Gmail,
and the usual (for MD) splash of red coloring
has also made its way to the header and
status bar, as well as the circular button for
composing new emails. Another big change is
the redesigned navigation drawer, which
looks sharper and has a new interface for
switching accounts that works better (and is
faster) than before.
As for the way emails work, unread messages
are now bolded. Once you’ve read the
messages they are then unbolded. You’ll also
notice that the emails themselves now have
circular images, instead of the old square
pics. Those are some of the biggest changes
you’ll find here, but the bottom line is that
Google has revamped the entire Gmail look
and feel in order to fit in with Android 5.0
Lollipop and Material Design.
If you are interested in picking up the app,
you can grab it for manual installation from
GappsEarly , or you can wait until the full
rollout on Google Play. For those that have
tried the latest version of Gmail, what do you
think of the new look?
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