Gmail’s Developers has newly released all new pull down feature to refresh feature, messages and conversations can be refreshed without much effort. Just a touch and drag action with the message list will revive the page. It seems like Google is following Twitter’s footsteps in its drag and drop approach. Users accessing the facility on the iPhone 4’s Retina display are in for some visual treat. The high resolution icons and graphics ought to enhance the experience with an expansive graphical interface. Lastly, the transitions between the menus have also been made smoother. As a user taps on a message, the process of reverting to the menu and vice-versa will slide the view left or right.
Google mobile Dev team has released a numerous features which makes Gmail for mobile sharper and easier. These are the significant new features:
Pull down to refresh
You can now pull down to refresh your message list and conversation on all iOS and Playbook devices. To refresh, simply touch the message list, drag downwards and release.
High resolution icons
For those of you using Gmail for mobile on an iPhone 4 Retina display, the icons and graphics are now at a higher resolution, making Gmail for mobile sharper.
Transitions
When you tap on a conversation, tap back to the inbox, go to the menu or go back, the view will slide left or right. This new transition animation is a quick, small indication that makes the view change feel smoother.
Curious web designers often ask us how we implement certain features. In this case, we used a combination of up to eight different CSS3 transitions and Javascript to get things to look just right.
As always, go to mail.google.com on your mobile browser to check out the latest updates to Gmail for mobile.
Source: Gmail Blog
