Google Gmail app issue

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I don't use the Gmail app that comes on my Android phone, except strictly for a Gmail account that is a bit of a side-deal for me.

My main stuff is on Yahoo Mail. Yahoo's Mail app is ridiculously large and bloated, and can be a magnet for lots of advertising. Its only plus is that it gets immediate push notifications of incoming messages to the Yahoo accounts.

The Gmail app can handle Yahoo email, but like any other third party email app, only on a configured "fetch" basis (periodically going and checking the account and putting things in your Inbox on that interval).

That's fine and I can deal with that. But my beef is, even though when looking at a Gmail account in the Gmail app, things look good and are readable (as regards font size), as soon as you get into other mail accounts using it, the font becomes tiny. I mean, really a PITA to read and use.

And there doesn't seem to be anything to compensate for this, other than go to your phone's Display settings and increase the font size (or any other similar global setting that does the same thing).

But that is no solution. I guess the only thing that would really work is a dedicated sizing setting in the Gmail app for each account configured to use it.

Maybe this is intentional, meant to cast a negative light on any other party's email service (Gmail: "Yeah, we work with any type of email service, but you can see how they suck..." kind of approach).

Does anyone else see this? I already use another email app for my Yahoo stuff on Android (Aqua Mail, paid version), but my philosophy leans toward using what comes on the phone, to avoid redundancy and save space (assuming what comes on the phone can't be removed).

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I was just mulling over this problem again while at work, after having set up some relatives with new phones. One of them uses the Yahoo Mail app for their Yahoo account, and I really dislike that app.

And I was thinking, I wish they could use the Gmail app. Then I began the whole cycle of remembering that, sure, it'll work. But the darn text (font size) is too small and can't be adjusted!

I was coming to HoFo to pose a question about it, as if I hadn't already, and once I figured which sub-forum would be appropriate I ran across my own original thread on the subject, never responded to!

So obviously, not a topic of great concern. I get it.

I did find out through Google searching that it appears the Gmail app for Android, maybe around 2015 and before, did have the ability to adjust its own font size. Why that feature was eliminated I cannot imagine. They had one job to do! Oh, well. No shortage of ways to retrieve email.

Comments still appreciated.

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More on the Gmail app:

I just obtained and started using a Samsung Galaxy Tab A7 Lite, and decided to use the Gmail app for all email (for now).

Works fine, but strangely, for the non-Gmail accounts (in this case Yahoo) when you're in a message and scrolling it's a really lame experience, with a lot of jumpy movement; not smooth. The Gmail accounts are as smooth as any other scrolling action on the tablet. When you're in the message list (Inbox) with the Yahoo, scrolling is fine. Just when you go into a message (open it) it gets bad.

Any suggestions or reasoning that may be behind this? Maybe Google made it so only their email platform is treated correctly, and all others must suffer?