Android users to get Gmail management application

PanARMENIAN.Net - Google's Gmail 5.0 app will finally provide Android users with one email management application that streamlines all their different accounts.

ReadWrite says that according to a video obtained by Android Police, the Gmail app expected with Google's Android Lollipop mobile operating system will let users read and answer email from non-Gmail accounts such as Yahoo and Outlook. It doesn't say whether it will manage other accounts as well.

If the Gmail app will manage a variety of outside email accounts, the new app could finally give Android users an obvious alternative to bouncing around between multiple email apps. And if Google extends this feature to iPhones and iPads, it could challenge Apple's barely passable default Mail application as well, ReadWrite says.

The redesigned Gmail 5.0 is the latest in a number of updates to Google applications that conform to the company's "material design" philosophy in Lollipop, an entirely new design and user interface for Android devices expected to be released in the next few weeks.