Does anybody know how email works on the Apple Watch? I am wondering if everybody using Gmail is going to have a problem with push notifications on the Apple watch. On the iPhone the work around is to just run the Gmail app and that works great, but I have not seen evidence of a Gmail app for Apple watch. If push mail notifications on the Apple Watch work the same way as in the mail app on the iPhone, that would leave Gmail users the choice of either forwarding their mail or just using fetch.
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Gmail on Apple watch
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Gmail works flawlessly on my Pebble. I dont see any reason it wouldnt work just as well (until google releases a watch app) as well on the 
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That would make sense, but I am not sure there is much incentive to do it quickly. I guess we'll see.
I think it is safe to assume that Google will release a Gmail app for the
If they're using the actual Gmail app, however, you might just see notifications and no be able to do anything with them except dismiss them until Google updates Gmail to support the Watch.
naturally an app will have to be optimised for the watch to take full advantage. So people who use the Gmail app, will need google to update it.
I don't see a Gmail app, but email notifications should be the same. If Notifications are anything like every other smartwatch, it will simply sync to your IPhone and all notifications sent to your iPhone will be sent also to Apple Watch.
But they wouldn't be actionable then (e.g. no quick reply, etc) unless the app is optimized; it's just a notification.
I would assume Apple would implement actionable notifications across everything. same as actionable notifications on iOS 8. From Apple.com "When email comes right to your wrist, its more accessible and easy to manage quickly. You can read an email, flag it, mark it as read or unread, or move it to the Trash. Or open it on your iPhone, where you can type a response." It seems that the only reply that can be made is to Text messages.
The Gmail app only recently implemented actionable notifications in iOS 8; the app developer has to do their part to take advantage of the APIs to make their notifications actionable. I assume the same will be true of the Watch, where it's possible.
Gmail works flawlessly on my Pebble. I dont see any reason it wouldnt work just as well (until google releases a watch app) as well on the
Sorry, but who in this forum gives a **** about the pebble?
It's a point of reference for discussion about what smart watches can and currently do offer. Kind of silly to bar discussing it here just because it doesn't have the Apple logo etched onto it.