Work to optimize Google’s first-party apps for tablets and tablets continues today, with Gmail now opening links and other attachments in a split-screen mode.
When you click a link in an email, it will now open in a side-by-side (Chrome Custom Tab) window instead of taking over the entire screen. The dual-column Gmail view shrinks to take up the left half of the screen, with the inbox sidebar giving way to just the message body. Google Docs and YouTube links will also open in their respective apps at the right.
If you shrink the web page a little bit, Gmail will go back to its tablet UI for three columns of information. Gmail’s split-screen behavior is widely rolled out today on large-screen devices like the Pixel Fold and Tablet we checked today.
This follows multi-instance support in Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, and Slides, with the Workspace team doing a particularly good job of optimizing apps.
Meanwhile, Google this week highlighted third-party optimizations like Zoom, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Dropbox, Evernote, and Todoist.
More on Gmail:
- Gmail on the web adds icons to make navigating menus easier
- Triaging Gmail and completing Tasks in Google Calendar for Wear OS
- Gmail app is now available on Wear OS watches [Gallery]
- Gmail for Android rolling out emoji reactions, coming to iOS and web
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