Gmail App Returns to the App Store With At Least 10% Less Suck ⇥

Notifications work now, and that’s about the end of the good things I can say about the app. Here comes a wall of text.

It’s still the Gmail website in an app wrapper. It’s still faking inertial scrolling, and poorly at that. Opening the left-hand menu, then tapping in the right-hand half where the main view is still doesn’t slide the main view back into focus. The “Inbox” label in the upper toolbar still isn’t centred. A floppy disk still represents “save as draft”. The paperclip icon in the compose window is still too small relative to the other two icons in the same toolbar. For some reason, there’s a redundant “Save” button in the compose window, and it’s on a separate line from the “Send” button, neither of which are iOS-standard controls and don’t look like they belong anywhere on an iPhone (but they’d look right at home on an Android phone). The buttons in the message view interface look like they were placed by a drunk darts player.

A truly abysmal effort. I’m sure there are people out there who cannot use the default iOS Mail application for whatever reason (they need archives and push, for instance, or labels). But shouldn’t they get a decent experience using Google’s official Google mail application?