Google App for iOS Updated With Material Design, Maps Integration

[AlecZ]

Never understood the Google and bing apps myself. And with spotlight in iOS 8 and Siri, I see even less use for them.

YouTube especially. The YT app is nearly the same thing as the mobile site except that it has advertisements. Safari just loads the MP4 video directly from its URL, so there are no ads, and I think there's some throttling involved in the app. I've noticed (though not with official testing) that YouTube's Flash, HTML5, and native iOS players nearly stop loading the video if you pause, and they seem to load more slowly even when you are playing than if you load the MP4 directly.

So my setup is Click2Flash in Safari on Mac and Safari on iOS to completely avoid YouTube's video player.

 

[stewy]

Don't forget the magic + button that covers content on the lower right corner of the screen!

True! They've got nothing on GRADIENTS!

 

[Steve121178]

The Calendar app can't come soon enough! Using Google Calendar on iOS has been nothing but a massive frustration for me:

* Default iOS Calendar: Does not handle invites and does not allow me set notifications per account. Thanks, Google, for nuking Exchange support. This used to work so well.
* Fantastical: Relies on iOS syncing the calendar, adds two times to every event I create
* Sunrise: Uses a proprietary invite system, caused me quite a few problems
* Calendars by Readdle: Does not appear to handle invites
* Gmail: Allows response to invites but terrible app overall
* Inbox: Great app, currently does not handle calendar invites at all

And to add to all of that:

* iCloud calendars don't handle invites well at all, can't accept updates to events using native apps. Whole pile of cross-platform invite issues here.
* Built in 'Birthdays' calendar neglects anniversaries. Google's Birthday calendar has both but does not have any event notifications set for them.

Head, meet wall.

Head meet Acompli.

https://www.acompli.com/