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You are here: Home / Tech / Android / Gmail for Android Updated: Better Sync for Better Battery Life, Custom Notifications, and more

Gmail for Android Updated: Better Sync for Better Battery Life, Custom Notifications, and more

July 28, 2011 by Paul Spoerry Leave a Comment

Gmail has been updated with custom notifications, better sync for battery life, new picture options, and new message options.

Gmail Update What's New

A new update for Android’s Gmail app just showed up on the Android Market and it’s chocked full of goodness.

Here’s what’s new:

  • Save bandwidth and battery by only syncing priority mail: You can now pick which mail to sync, this should help conserve battery life. I’m most excited for this addition because I use a lot of labels and now you can choose which ones to keep synced, and which ones you want to update automatically.
  • Custom Notifications per label: For each label you are keeping synced, you can set custom notifications. You can decide if you want to receive notifications for a given label and give that label a distinct ringtone, choose to have it vibrate, and decide if you want it to only notify you on the first new e-mail.
  • Remember ‘Show Pictures’ for senders: The Gmail mobile app will now act just like the Gmail desktop app when it comes to displaying images in an email…. in other words, you can tell it to always display images from a particular sender.
  • Better TalkBack support for accessibility: TalkBack is an accessibility screen reader that provides spoken feedback.
  • Turn off sticky message actions in landscape or all orientations: The settings section has beefed up and you can now configure general preferences , preferences for individual accounts, and message actions. You can decide if you want to always show them, show them only in landscape, or only in portrait mode,
  • Performance enhancements: They didn’t say what other performance enhancements but performance boosts are always a good thing right?  😉
The only thing missing for me is the ability to hide certain labels from the app. There’s just some mail that I keep in archives, mail that come as notifications or from mailing list that I have automatically pushed to their own labels that I really never have any intention of needing to see while on my mobile phone. Still, this is a decent list of updates. More screen shots after the break…

Android Gmail Update Notification Settings

Android Gmail Update General Preferences

Android Gmail Update Sync Settings

Android Gmail Update Label Settings

Grab the update via the Android Market on your phone or via Android Market on the web.

Filed Under: Android, GMail, Google, Tech Tagged With: Android, email, show, sync, turn

About Paul Spoerry

I’m a groovy cat who’s into technology, Eastern Thought, and house music. I’m a proud and dedicated father to the coolest little guy on the planet (seriously, I'm NOT biased). I’m fascinated by ninjas, the Internet, and anybody who can balance objects on their nose for long periods of time.

I have a utility belt full of programming languages and a database of all my knowledge on databases... I practice code fu. Oh, I've also done actual Kung Fu, and have a black belt in Tae Kwon Do.

I run. I meditate. I dance. I blog at PaulSpoerry.com, tweet @PaulSpoerry, and I'm here on Google+.

I'm currently work for IBM developing web enabled insurance applications for IBM and support and develop a non-profit called The LittleBigFund.

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