i'm also interesting about using Gmail APK (maybe lauching activity with parameter...) or to access to Gmail and Google login service with some API or class...
any idea? On Dec 9 2009, 12:51 pm, Christoph <chris.schue...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hello Forum, > > most other smart phones display the unread email count as a small > number in the lower right hand corner of the email application icon. I > like that. After realizing that this is not supported by theGMail > app, I started looking around the market for a widget that achieves > this. All I found was a commercial widget, which did not satisfy me > (the count did not get instantly updated when the unread mail count > changed). > > Therefore I want to develop a widget, which accomplishes exactly that. > > Many of you probably have more experience in android development than > I do, so I would be happy to hear your opinions. > > I see two ways to realize this: > > 1) Somehow hook into a content provider of theGMailapp and extract > the unread mail count directly from there. Unfortunately theGMailapp > is not part of the SDK and closed source. Therefore I have no idea how > to find out about the internal workings of the app and how to extract > the unread mail count directly from there. > > 2) The second approach is much more indirect and has more overhead, > but it will work nevertheless. I will let the user provide google > username and password and log into the google imap server directly and > find out how many unread mail there are. A port of the JavaMail > library for the android OS should make this quite simple. The question > remains when to update the mail count. What should trigger the update? > A periodic time-out? Well, my first idea would be to update it when > the widget is first started and then every time a new mail > notification comes in. However I don't know whether this is possible. > Can I tell my application to react to notifications, which where > produced by another application (GMailapp in our case) ? > > I really think there should be a free unreadgmailwidget, which > accomplishes this! I would be happy to receive feedback. > > Cheers, > > Christoph -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
