How do I add Gmail to the share options, so that I can share stuff via Gmail rather than the Mail app?

you would have to set up the mail account, there is not a way to add gmail to the share area.

What is the "complication" in setting up the built-in iOS Mail app to sync to her GMail?

OK, so what you want is the ability to specify the default mail app to use when sharing. As you've discovered, iOS does not let you change the default mail app to use.

But if she's a GMail user, perhaps you should set up her iOS GMail account anyway since the GMail app really only provides mail support. If she uses a GMail Calendar, or Notes to link to her GMail account, the GMail app won't do that. Also, although she can use GMail contacts from within the GMail app when sending an e-mail, she won't have access to her GMail contacts for any other purposes. In other words:

1- Set up an iOS GMail account. That provides support for Mail, Calendars, and Notes. You can still use the GMail app for mail, but any sharing via GMail would be done through the iOS Mail app.

2- Since the standard iOS account for GMail does not provide Contacts, set up a 2nd account just for her GMail contacts according to this article:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4872?viewlocale=en_US

Sounds complicated, but it's really not and is a one-time set up.

Vance14 wrote:

You go to share from any app and you have a list of apps that you can use (Evernote, Drive, Dropbox, gmail, any SMS program you like, Pocket, Twitter, Flickr, etc, etc, etc). Just pick and go (and they are automatically added to the list when they are installed). I don't understand how iOS doesn't have this feature yet.

For apps that can share items, iOS can do these things. The only thing from your list that it won't share from is the GMail app itself, becasue the default mail sharing is via the built-in iOS Mail app. But for most other items, if you have the type of app that you can open and/or share an item with, it should be available as one of your choices.

is there any way to replace it with gmail ? ive deleted Mail from my iphone so now the icon is white /empty..

You cannot delete default apps from the iPhone

Wht not? I deleted mail app with iFile..

Now there is white empty icon with lines..

Looking for solution replace with gmail app,that I can quickly share..

You cannot delete native iOS apps unless your device is jailbroken. If it is, then it cannot be discussed here.

Why not ? Hope it isn't crime tho :-)

It violates the TOS for the forum, and voids your warranty. That is why it cannot be discussed.

I don’t know to which version of iOS you were referring when you wrote that there is not a way to add gmail to the share area, but with 8.2 Gmail app was present in my share area. However, it has disappeared since I have updated to 9.3.1 (and from the list of « other » apps as well). Maybe I miss something, but the only workaround I found was to set up my Gmail account in Mail (as you explained) so that the picture or link, etc. I want to share is sent by Mail from my Gmail account. But since I normally use Gmail as my main email app I’d prefer not to use Mail app. So I guess that since it was possible in 8.2, there may be a way to make Gmail app showing up back in the share area. Any idea about that ? Thanks.