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

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?  😉