Google updates Gmail for iPhone X

If Apple did this properly, they could've found a way to bypass the letterbox, just like all the 18:9 android phones are doing

Why does Apple have to do things androids way? :confused:
 
With the X you need to cater for the notch at the top, you cannot just expand the layout as you could have crucial controls hidden by it.

For example Instagram's first X update did go full screen but their volume indicator was partially hidden by the notch. So in the update they did a day or so ago the whole volume indicator is now shrunken and shown in the top left area of the X.

While people here bitch about why it wasn't done, a lot more people would bitch if the top part of their apps (normally used for things like address bars and the like) is now useless.
 
With the X you need to cater for the notch at the top, you cannot just expand the layout as you could have crucial controls hidden by it.

For example Instagram's first X update did go full screen but their volume indicator was partially hidden by the notch. So in the update they did a day or so ago the whole volume indicator is now shrunken and shown in the top left area of the X.

While people here bitch about why it wasn't done, a lot more people would bitch if the top part of their apps (normally used for things like address bars and the like) is now useless.
Something something fragmentation
 
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