Google 5.0 for Android will also support Exchange and absorbing stock Email app functions

Yesterday, we got our first taste of Google 5.0 for Android, featuring the expected Material Design visual makeover and most surprisingly, the knowledge that Google intends to make the new Gmail capable as serving as the inbox for Yahoo and Outlook emails too. As it turns out, it’s much more than even that. According today’s information courtesy of Android Police, the new Gmail won’t stop at just allowing you to manage Yahoo and Outlook accounts, but also Exchange accounts and essentially absorbs all functions of the stock Email app.

This doesn’t come particularly as a surprise given that Google has made a habit of combining apps with common purposes, a la Hangouts. This latest change puts Gmail in a realm with all the other email curating apps, though we’ll have to wait for the official app to drop before we can see exactly how good this turns out to be.

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Source: Android Police