Very clean. A lot more stuff is "sized" consistently compared to the current Gmail on Android, which makes it look a lot more professional to me. If your interface is clean enough, you shouldn't have to break things up by changing the spacing/sizing/capital-case of the elements, like the current app does. This is a nice iteration.<p>I'm happy about these recent app developments but all I really want for Christmas is a marginally newer Google Finance. It's been like ten years. The webapp still uses <i>Flash.</i>
It's nice. I just hope the email monetization features -- Social, Promos, Purchase Intent, Ads, Buy Stuff Now -- aren't as prominent as in Inbox.<p>Of course, they used to let us disable them (in the desktop site). Now they're a key feature. That's progress, I guess.
I recently moved away from Gmail because of the lack of push (via EAS) on non-Android devices. When Apple (iCloud) and MS (Outlook.com) offer push via EAS it annoys me Google killed it off unless you pay.<p>Interestingly moving away from Gmail took me totally out of the Google world. I just switched to an iPhone from a Nexus 5 as the Nexus 6 was just too big and I have very happy using no Google account/services (outside of search).<p>I wanted to try Inbox and got an invite on day 1 but have not bothered to try it yet as it would mean using Gmail again.<p>Google bring back free EAS please!<p>Also it always annoyed me how on Android they have two email apps, one for Gmail and one for other Email. Crappy experience really. The Gmail app should support other providers. I know it is coming soon but it should have from day one to be honest.
It looks good but with the beta availability of InBox, I am not sure if I will even try the new Gmail UI.<p>InBox is very nice, BTW. The web client is OK on my laptop, the iPad InBox app is nice to use, and for me the Android InBox app is such a hugely better experience than Gmail.
Can you turn off conversation view yet?<p>Conversation view is the single worst software feature ever developed for any piece of software ever made.<p>Boy I wish I could turn it off in the android gmail client.
So many horizontal bars. I wish that the top two bars could be unified and shortened.<p>The bottom bar for only three androids buttons is a huge waste, but they've painted themselves in a corner, there.
I hope you will finally be able to include images in a mail (like in the desktop webapp) not just as an attached file, or maybe I just never found how to do it in the current client ?