Analysts have found an email scheduling feature while tearing down a new version of Gmail for Android
Most of the time when you send an email, you need to send it now so that it arrives as quickly as possible. Other times, however, you might have a specific time during the week when you want to send it out. They say that Tuesday morning is the best time to submit job applications, and if you’re working late on a Friday, any emails you send will be lost in a weekend’s worth emails come Monday morning. For situations like these, you can either set yourself a reminder or schedule your email to send at the best possible time.
Rather surprisingly, Gmail doesn’t have an email scheduling feature. If you’re a Gmail user and you want to schedule an email to send at a particular time you need to download a browser extension, or simply remember when you want to send it and do it manually. This rather laborious way of doing something you’d expect one of the largest email providers in the world to do automatically has irked more than enough Gmail users to raise it in the Google forums. It now looks like Google is doing something to remedy the situation.
In an APK teardown of an upcoming Android version of Gmail, the guys at Android Police found an email scheduling feature in the code. Furthermore, the code in the Android version of the app makes it highly likely that the desktop version of Gmail will also likely get the new scheduling feature, too.
Now due to the nature of APK teardowns, there is no way to confirm this update until it actually happens, and there isn’t even anyway to know when it might happen. But Google normally pushes these types of updates out to your handset automatically, so hopefully, we’ll start seeing this new Gmail feature on our Android headsets sooner rather than later. Fingers crossed, we’ll get the update on the web version of Gmail at the same time. We’ll just have to wait and see.
