Google planning to shut down Inbox app
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Google’s Inbox app is shutting down in March 2019
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The app’s inevitable sunset is snoozed for six months
Pity. I preferred using Inbox over Gmail.
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Eh, I could never get it to fit in my workflow, and now I have hundreds of messages in my inbox because I couldn't figure out how to do labels properly in Inbox (among other things)...
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It seems like most of Inbox's features are in GMail now anyway.
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@e4tmyl33t Didn't they JUST release it? Christ.
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Dang, I liked Inbox. Much prettier.
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@blakeyrat don't worry, they'll make two more remakes soon enough, if their library of chat apps is anything to go by.
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@LB_ said in Google planning to shut down Inbox app:
@blakeyrat don't worry, they'll make two more remakes soon enough, if their library of chat apps is anything to go by.
Yeah, we're due for a new round of chat apps. They're not neglecting their old ones, though, as they took away all the custom colors from Messages.
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@ben_lubar said in Google planning to shut down Inbox app:
It seems like most of Inbox's features are in GMail now anyway.
Good news, they're also completely redoing GMails UI, because fuck you.
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@pie_flavor said in Google planning to shut down Inbox app:
Dang, I liked Inbox. Much prettier.
Warning! Apple fanboy!
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@kt_ wat?
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@pie_flavor said in Google planning to shut down Inbox app:
@kt_ wat?
All about looks with you iDiots. You don't understand that for the same price you can have a 1.1% faster app with a 2.3% better spam filter!
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@kt_ wat?
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@ben_lubar said in Google planning to shut down Inbox app:
It seems like most of Inbox's features are in GMail now anyway.
What would be nice would be if they'd add support for creating a Home screen shortcut that opens a particular mailbox. Maybe allow the icon to be customized (select from a handful of different styles, or use the logo for that mailbox's service -- Exchange, Google, Yahoo!, ...).
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@anotherusername said in Google planning to shut down Inbox app:
@ben_lubar said in Google planning to shut down Inbox app:
It seems like most of Inbox's features are in GMail now anyway.
What would be nice would be if they'd add support for creating a Home screen shortcut that opens a particular mailbox. Maybe allow the icon to be customized (select from a handful of different styles, or use the logo for that mailbox's service -- Exchange, Google, Yahoo!, ...).
Possible in Oreo and up for the first part. Second part is dependant on your launcher.
No screenshots as that would be doxxy.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Google planning to shut down Inbox app:
Possible in Oreo and up for the first part.
That should not be something that depends on the latest Android version. On the version of Android that I'm currently using, Maps is able to put a shortcut on the Home screen with a preset destination programmed in, so GMail should be capable of doing the same thing with a preset account/folder view.
Second part is dependant on your launcher.
The icon that Maps uses for a destination shortcut is different from the app's default icon, so it's possible to do it somehow.
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@anotherusername said in Google planning to shut down Inbox app:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Google planning to shut down Inbox app:
Possible in Oreo and up for the first part.
That should not be something that depends on the latest Android version. On the version of Android that I'm currently using, Maps is able to put a shortcut on the Home screen with a preset destination programmed in, so GMail should be capable of doing the same thing with a preset account/folder view.
Second part is dependant on your launcher.
The icon that Maps uses for a destination shortcut is different from the app's default icon, so it's possible to do it somehow.
All I know is that before I had to use widgets and those typically only supported labels (and couldn't be adjusted as far as icon).
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Is there a more general "Google is shutting down a useful service" thread? Anyway
Hangouts on Air to shutdown later this year, no replacement for podcasters
Google's Hangouts on Air service, which let users stream their Hangout calls to YouTube, will shut down later this year.
What
iswas it? A way for Youtube streamers to do a show where multiple people can speak and/or show video.Sounds pretty useful, why get rid of it? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Is there any replacement? You can manually kludge something together with Skype and OBS maybe
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@hungrier said in Google planning to shut down Inbox app:
Is there any replacement? You can manually kludge something together with Skype and OBS maybe
Which isn't all that hard, TBH. So long as you're a fan of Linux-y interfaces.
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@hungrier said in Google planning to shut down Inbox app:
Is there a more general "Google is shutting down a useful service" thread?
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@LB_
I've even posted in that thread before.
