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Using the menu icon in the app, however, is more complicated since the options change based on which tab you’re viewing. For Gmail on Android, the menu icon brings up a number of features including the ability to refresh your inbox, compose a new message, manage accounts, manage Gmail labels, search, settings and help.
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Unlike, Gmail for Android focuses on providing a simple list of your latest e-mail messages and nothing more.Īs any Android user knows, to find an app’s settings and other functions you typically tap the menu icon on your phone. If you need to view a different folder, just tap the box in the top left and select the folder or label in Gmail speak from a list. To add or manage accounts, you just tap on the account name in the upper-right corner. All you see at first glance in Gmail for Android is a list of your messages with a box on the top right showing you which account you’re viewing messages for and a box on the top left indicating which folder you’re in such as the inbox. Gmail on Android has a far simpler interface than the tab-based menu Microsoft uses, and Gmail also supports multiple accounts. Finally, to the far right is the search tab for locating people in your contacts. If you have more than one account connected to Outlook, you will have a tab for each individual account. If you need to view another folder such as your sent or junk folder, it will show up in this tab. The individual account tab lists all your current messages for a specific account and can retain up to 30 days’ worth of incoming messages. The “All Emails” tab is a unified inbox that is really only helpful if you are using multiple accounts with the app. From this tab you can add or remove multiple accounts and specify which account should be the default for replies and new messages. The “Home” tab lists all your accounts currently connected to the app. If you know what the Hotmail app is like, then you already know about the “new” app.Īt the top of the screen are four tabs by default: Home, All Emails, an individual account tab, and Search. First, let’s get one nagging question out of the way: Yes, the new Outlook for Android app is nothing more than the old Hotmail app with a rebranded name, as far as I could tell.
