Gmail for iPhone Adds Auto-Expanding Compose Boxes
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Posted October 26, 2009 at 12:44pm by iClarified
Google has improved Gmail for iPhone by adding auto-expanding compose boxes to make scrolling easier.
----- When composing a message on my phone, I really want to see as much of my draft as possible and make use of all the available screen space. One of my biggest gripes is a fixed-size compose box that restricts me to only a couple lines of visible text when my screen still has room to display more lines.
Today we launched auto-expanding compose boxes in Gmail for iPhone. This makes composing longer messages much easier since you're able to see more of the text you've typed. Just keep typing until you get near the bottom and then the compose box will magically expand by a few lines! As an added bonus, for all those iPhone users out there, auto-expanding compose boxes take away the need to press and hold to scroll with the magnifying glass! Instead, you can flick to scroll, much like you would normally do to scroll up and down a webpage. -----
Well, this is all welcome and good, but I can´t point it out enough:
We need a real Gmail-app for iPhone with all the good features we love about Gmail (read, e.g. threaded conversations)!
I´m a bit tired of using a variety of mail-apps to get the most out of this. Every Gmail-app on App Store use Gmails web-interface, but they are not exactly fast in loadtimes. I´ve paid for a few, but I´m not entirely satisfied - yet!