The official Gmail app brings the best of Gmail to your Android phone or tablet with robust security, real-time notifications, multiple account support, and search that works across all your mail. Gmail is also available on Wear OS so you can stay productive and manage emails right from your wrist.
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With the Gmail app you can:
- Automatically block more than 99.9 percent of spam, phishing, malware, and dangerous links from ever reaching your inbox.
- Undo send, to prevent embarrassing mistakes.
- Turn on Google Chat to connect, create and collaborate with others.
- Get more done as a group in Spaces – a dedicated place for organizing people, topics, and projects.
- Enjoy high quality video calling with Google Meet.
- Respond to emails quickly with Smart Reply suggestions.
- Switch between multiple accounts.
- Attach and share files with ease.
- Get notified of new mail fast, with notification center, badge, and lock screen options.
- Search your mail faster with instant results, predictions as you type, and spelling suggestions.
- Organize your mail by labeling, starring, deleting, and reporting spam.
- Swipe to archive/delete, to quickly clear out your inbox.
- Read your mail with threaded conversations.
- Auto-complete contact names as you type from your Google contacts or your phone.
- Respond to Google Calendar invites right from the app.
- Add a Gmail complication and tile on your Wear OS watch to get a quick overview of your emails.
Gmail is part of Google Workspace, allowing you and your team to easily connect, create, and collaborate. You can:
- Connect with coworkers via Google Meet or Google Chat, send an invite in Calendar, add an action to your task list, and more without leaving Gmail.
- Use suggested actions — like Smart Reply, Smart Compose, grammar suggestions, and nudges — to help you stay on top of work and take care of simple tasks, so you can be more efficient with your time.
- Stay safe. Our machine learning models block more than 99.9% of spam, phishing, and malware from reaching our users.
Free or paid:
- Free
Accessibility and User Comments:
Accessible with TalkBack actions and a couple of issues
Accessibility and user comments
Surprisingly, Gmail for Android utilizes TalkBack actions, and it's quite rare to find a Google app with such a feature. Once the focus lands on a message in any folder, the following 4 TalkBack actions can be utilized:
- Add star,
- Archive,
- Delete,
- Activate.
It's worth noting that accessing the Compose button doesn't necessarily require the use of the double-tap and hold. In the Inbox folder, for instance, it can be found somewhere close to the bottom right corner of the screen, and should be located via explore by touch.
If users double-tap on a message and hold, more options will appear at the top of the screen, options which haven't been incorporated into TalkBack actions. Other than the ones which belong to TalkBack actions, they are Compose, Mark read or Mark unread, More options, and Select all. Selecting the More options item reveals the following: Move to, Snooze, Change labels, Add star or Remove star - also part of the TalkBack actions, Mark not important, Mute, and Report spam.
It's worth mentioning that the use of TalkBack actions is quite limited in Gmail for Android. For instance, while they are available inside main folders - say Inbox, once you open a threaded conversation, you can't use TalkBack actions on each conversation to take a single action or bulk actions. You should double-tap and hold to view the results at the top of the screen. Even options like Copy, Translate, Select all and Share aren't part of TalkBack actions when you are inside a message and want to manipulate text.
Anyway, once a message is opened, one should either use the "read from next" TalkBack command to start reading the contents of the message to end continuously, or find the contents of the message via explore by touch manually. However, the best approach would be to use the TalkBack "read from next" command immediately because, upon opening a message, the focus lands at the very top of the message area, ready for continuous reading. TalkBack also reads the subject line at that moment. On the other hand, locating the message area via explore by touch for line-by-line or word-by-word reading is a bit cumbersome.
As of this writing - and this has been a long-standing issue, unlike Chrome or other HTML areas, TalkBack tends to insert short pauses after each line of text in continuous reading. This makes the reading process rather unpleasant. Finally, there is no easy way to move through messages which belong to the same conversation using a screen reader like TalkBack. Threaded conversations can be disabled, but this creates other problems.
Last Tested App version and Android version:
Varies with device, Android 14
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