Android Hotmail App - Setup And Sync Emails With Official Microsoft App For Google Android

This is official Microsoft Hotmail app for Google Android phones. Once you setup this app on your Android phone then you can sync up your Hotmail emails at predefined frequency or on push. Receive instant notifications of new emails, reply to urgent emails, compose and send emails anytime and from anywhere. Read how to setup your Hotmail account on your Android phone and stay in touch on the move.

Android Hotmail App : This app comes with wide range of settings and you can do almost everything which you are doing with Hotmail using desktop. You receive a notification for new emails, you can compose new emails, reply to received emails with CC and BCC options, you can delete emails, mark emails to "read" or "unread" and so on.

Android Hotmail Setup : When you launch this app first time you would be prompted to accept the terms of service. Once you accept the terms you would be taken to next screen as shown below.

Android Hotmail Setup

You can do the setup of your Android Hotmail app using this screen. Enter the email address and password of your Hotmail email account and tap the next button. This would register your Hotmail account with this app. This way you can register as many Hotmail accounts as you want by entering email address, password and pressing next button. Once you finish registering your Hotmail account then probably you would see a email notification icon in notification area of the phone as shown in screen shot above. Once you finish the setup of your Hotmail ids then press the back button of your Android phone and launch the Hotmail app again.

Android Hotmail Inbox : After you do the one time setup as explained in earlier section above then whenever you start the Hotmail app then it does not ask you again your Hotmail credentials. When you start the app next time it would launch with "Home" tab as active tab and you can see the all Hotmail accounts you have setup with the app. You can add more Hotmail ids here by tapping to "Add Hotmail Account" button.

Tap the "All Emails" tab to see all the emails from various registered Hotmail accounts together. This tab is handy to check quickly all received emails.

Android Hotmail - Inbox 

When you press menu button of your phone then you would see two menus as shown in screenshot above. As name indicates "Sort by" menu can be used to sort the emails by Date, Sender or Subject. Compose menu is used to start composing new email.

You can select one or more emails by tapping the check box against each email. Then you can mark those selected emails as "read' or "unread" by tapping appropriate button. You can delete selected emails by tapping "delete" button.

Android Hotmail - Composing New Email :  When you tap the "Compose" menu then you would see a screen for composing a new email.

Android Hotmail - Compose Email

When you start typing email id in "To" text box, it starts giving you suggestions based on your contacts. Press the menu button of your Android phone to see additional features available while composing an email. "Toggle Bcc" menu is used to show or hide "Bcc" text box for composing an email. Tap "Add recipient" menu to select the options from "Contacts", "Group" or "Search Contacts". As name suggest you can add attachments to your email by tapping "Add attachment" menu.

Android Hotmail Settings : When you tap the specific Hotmail account tab of this app then you can see the emails only for that specified account. When this tab is in focus and you press the menu button of your Android mobile phone then you would see more menu options than shown in earlier screenshot above.

Android Hotmail Settings

The menu "Account Settings" is one of the important menus because it allows you to fine tune the behavior of this app. Settings screen provides settings menus "Email", "Folders", "Contacts", "Quite Time", "Synchronise at" and "General settings". It also provide two action menus "Refresh data" and "Remove Account".

How To See Custom Hotmail Folders Other Than Inbox : If you tap "Change Folder" menu shown in screenshot above then you would be able to switch the folder from Inbox to "Drafts", "Outbox", "Sent Items" or "Trash". These are the folders which you can switch to by default settings. If you want to access your other custom Hotmail folder other than these defaults then you have to work some more.

To display other custom folders first tap the "Account Settings" menu and "Folders" option. This would display the screen with folder list showing all the available folders of your Hotmail account. Select the folders that you would like to access from Android Hotmail app. Once this is done then you can see these selected additional folders also when you tap the "Change Folder" menu. Now you can see and select additional other folders to access from Android Hotmail app.

Android Hotmail - Read And Reply Emails : When you tap any of the emails displayed in "All Emails" or specific account tab then it would be opened in separate screen to read.

Android Hotmail - Read Email

You can swipe the email by your finger to pan it horizontally or vertically. Panning email would also display the magnifying glasses as shown in screenshot above. Tap these magnifying glasses to zoom in or zoom out the email content.  You can tap "Hide Images" or "Show Images" toggle button to display or hide the images in email. Press the menu button of your Android phone to see menus which you can use while reading email.

Android Hotmail - Email Menus

You can use these menu options to perform various operations on the email. Operations which you can perform are - "Delete", "Forward", "Reply", "Reply All, and "Mark Unread".

You can download this app from Android market or app store of your choice. Once installed and setup you will be just finger touch away from your Hotmail emails.

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