Group Share for Gmail (Free)
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About Group Share for Gmail (Free)
Group Share for Gmail allows you to quickly share via email with one of your Gmail contact groups.
Important! If you're not seeing all your groups, go into the app Settings and enable "Show Invisible Groups" - they should then be visible.
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New in v3.1 / v3.1.1!
"Force Gmail Sharing" setting added; this is useful if default apps have meant nothing happens when you click on a group.
New "Hide/Show Group" function on long-press menu. New "Show Hidden Groups" setting.
Google required update to new libraries; this means only Android 4.0 (ICS) and higher is now supported.
New in v3.0!
"Keyboard" feature added! This will let you easily forward emails to a group!
It allows you to input groups directly into a field (e.g. the To: field of an email you're composing), without leaving Gmail.
To use this, enable the keyboard in device input settings (ignore the warning - we aren't evil, promise), and then switch to the Group Share for Gmail input device when you're in the desired field.
Select a group and it will populate the field with the list of email addresses. It'll auto-switch back to your previous input method (or will prompt you to select one if you're on android 2.x or below).
Clipboard support! Long press a group and select Copy to Clipboard, then Paste the email addresses wherever you wish (e.g. a To: field).
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A simple example - you're out in the wilds somewhere and typing is tricky. You want to email some photos from your phone to your family.
You already have a Gmail contact group set up with the relevant family email contacts.
On your phone, you select the photo(s) in the gallery you wish to share with them, perform "Share".
Choose Group Share for Gmail, and you are presented with a list of your Gmail contact groups.
Select one, and Gmail is started with the appropriate contact email addresses filled in and your attachment(s) made.
No trying to type email addresses one by one. A big timesaver!
You can also simply run the app directly and choose a contact group to send an email to.
Set an option to use Bcc: instead of To: (so recipients don't see each other's email addresses).
This Free version is ad-supported. Please buy the ad-free version if you like it and want to support us.
Note : if you enable "Display contact count" in the options, and the counts don't seem to reflect the number of contacts in a group when you view the contact list, there are two reasons this can happen.
Firstly, some contacts may be "joined" into a single displayed contact (but are counted multiply in the list).
Secondly, Facebook contacts are included in the count but aren't displayed in the list for a group (FB security restricts other apps viewing FB contacts).
Permissions :
READ_CONTACTS - so it can read who is in which group.
WRITE_CONTACTS - so it can modify and create new groups.
GET_ACCOUNTS - so it can get the list of configured gmail accounts to select from.
INTERNET and ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE - required for the AdMob in-app advertising to work.
Important! If you're not seeing all your groups, go into the app Settings and enable "Show Invisible Groups" - they should then be visible.
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New in v3.1 / v3.1.1!
"Force Gmail Sharing" setting added; this is useful if default apps have meant nothing happens when you click on a group.
New "Hide/Show Group" function on long-press menu. New "Show Hidden Groups" setting.
Google required update to new libraries; this means only Android 4.0 (ICS) and higher is now supported.
New in v3.0!
"Keyboard" feature added! This will let you easily forward emails to a group!
It allows you to input groups directly into a field (e.g. the To: field of an email you're composing), without leaving Gmail.
To use this, enable the keyboard in device input settings (ignore the warning - we aren't evil, promise), and then switch to the Group Share for Gmail input device when you're in the desired field.
Select a group and it will populate the field with the list of email addresses. It'll auto-switch back to your previous input method (or will prompt you to select one if you're on android 2.x or below).
Clipboard support! Long press a group and select Copy to Clipboard, then Paste the email addresses wherever you wish (e.g. a To: field).
******
A simple example - you're out in the wilds somewhere and typing is tricky. You want to email some photos from your phone to your family.
You already have a Gmail contact group set up with the relevant family email contacts.
On your phone, you select the photo(s) in the gallery you wish to share with them, perform "Share".
Choose Group Share for Gmail, and you are presented with a list of your Gmail contact groups.
Select one, and Gmail is started with the appropriate contact email addresses filled in and your attachment(s) made.
No trying to type email addresses one by one. A big timesaver!
You can also simply run the app directly and choose a contact group to send an email to.
Set an option to use Bcc: instead of To: (so recipients don't see each other's email addresses).
This Free version is ad-supported. Please buy the ad-free version if you like it and want to support us.
Note : if you enable "Display contact count" in the options, and the counts don't seem to reflect the number of contacts in a group when you view the contact list, there are two reasons this can happen.
Firstly, some contacts may be "joined" into a single displayed contact (but are counted multiply in the list).
Secondly, Facebook contacts are included in the count but aren't displayed in the list for a group (FB security restricts other apps viewing FB contacts).
Permissions :
READ_CONTACTS - so it can read who is in which group.
WRITE_CONTACTS - so it can modify and create new groups.
GET_ACCOUNTS - so it can get the list of configured gmail accounts to select from.
INTERNET and ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE - required for the AdMob in-app advertising to work.
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What's Changed
v3.1.2
Added link to Privacy Policy as required by Google Play appstore rules. Find it under Menu-About.
v3.1.2
Added link to Privacy Policy as required by Google Play appstore rules. Find it under Menu-About.
Version update Group Share for Gmail (Free) was updated to version 3.1.2
Version update Group Share for Gmail (Free) was updated to version 3.1.1
Version update Group Share for Gmail (Free) was updated to version 3.0.2
Name changed Name changed! Gmail Group Share (Free) now is known as Group Share for Gmail (Free).
What are users saying about Group Share for Gmail (Free)
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I use it daily and it's an indispensable tool.
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Can't change the name of a group. Can't copy and paste addresses into a group.
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Works good for group emails and does what Gmail and inbox don't do
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Great app. Works well and adds a missing Gmail feature
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Must have!!!
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Would be 5 if integrated in Gmail itself.
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Works great if you only need to email one group at a time. Does not support multiple groups in one email.
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Yay! Why Gmail doesn't have this as standard procedure I have NO IDEA.
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Excellent
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I didn't want to switch from blackberry until I got this app on my android, I was good after that, now they need it for iPhone, I can add this to my other phone then
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Works as advertised. This app gives me the great convenience of sending group emails from my phone. I didn't mind the ads, but I wanted to support this app by purchasing it.
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A simple way of overcoming gmail's shortcoming on Android that you can't blind copy. This app does so easily and swiftly. Perfect.
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Works very well. Gmail should have had this built in. One thing that would improve the app; ability to switch accounts on the main screen, or from left side menu as in Google apps.
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Group email sent yesterday (approximately 21 contacts) took more than 30 minutes to deliver + a few contacts in that group were incorrect, had to edit before sending.
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This app sucks! Its annoying and you can't sign out or in to your account even if your signed in to the wrong account
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I loved this, but since i changed to my new phone i can no longer find groupshare through the keyboard in my gmail (the space button)
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Nothing populated on main screen ;lenovo phab 2 pro.
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It won't display all that is in my group. I have to add manually at least 3-4 from each group. Using on Note 5.
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Great, except that I need to forward emails and cannot seem to do this. Help!
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Okay, maybe just a time saver, but I love this app because Android doesn't seem to think sharing email in groups is something we should be able to do easily, but this app makes that happen. Thank you!
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GMail and Inbox are sorely lacking this feature
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A real weakness of Gmail for not having the group mail ability - Group Share does it well, thank you Group Share!
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Sometimes i need to send something to a couple groups. I need to select mlre than one group at a time. I keep sending the same email 3 times to 3 groups.
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It stopped working for no reason. I'm giving you a second chance and trying to re install it again.
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Perfect app if you need to send emails to an entire group of people , as the current contacts and Gmail apps on the pixel do not offer this , thank you
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Good, simple, effective. I can live with ads. Question: I really need this for an iOS device and, incredibly, can't find one that does the job - any plans for IOS version?
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Worked fine until yesterday, now does not recognise labels/groups in Gmail.
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How if I wanna "forward" a message from may gmail to group? Thanks
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This works so well! I love how you can set up the automatic BCC!
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not working on Android N latest version
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Exactly what I've been looking for
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Excellent
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Love this app thanks so much!!!!!
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This app works fine on my phone, where I have only one gmail account. But on my tablet, which I share with another person, that person's account is selected as the Group Share user. Alphabetically, comes first is what I assume is the problem. Nothing about selecting account at install time, nor (better yet) switching accounts. Too bad. Works well under the right, but limited, circumstances. Update: Author identified where to change. In settings, an option under "Groups to Show", such as "Show system groups". I admit I missed under this category. Perhaps instead of "Account for Groups" "Change" or "Switch" Account for Groups. After all, the other choices in this category include a verb. Listing the current account with this label would also make it more obvious. Lastly, clicking on the current account on the main interface resulting in a choice would be more Google-like, in my opinion. Thanks.
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Used to work on my HTC One, now does not work on my samsung s6. I am very sad.
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This app doesn't help! Local contacts on phone does the same thing! This app made me loose a draft of a long message I typed!
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Once you see a group, why can't you see the individual files within the group? It is useless to me.
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Finally! Why is this not part of any android email app??? would love it to be integral to inbox or gmail or outlook or cloud - but at least it works here! Thank you so much
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How do I get the group to be not visible under a BCC
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Great app and I use it a lot. It would very nice if Gmail would add the app to its app list!!