On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 2:15 AM, Rahul <[email protected]> wrote: > I have working on one task and I wanted to retrieve the email messages > which are stored on Device into my application same as we can do with > SMS messages.
There is no support in the Android SDK for this. Of course, there is no support for reading SMS messages, either, which is why your application will fail for some users and may fail on some future versions of Android: http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/05/be-careful-with-content-providers.html > If we cant > retrieve email messages then any specific reason given by Google or > Android it self. Android is an operating system. The Android SDK is an SDK for the operating system. Email is an application. Gmail is an application. The Messenger app for SMS is an application. There are ~70,000 other applications on the Android Market. The Android SDK provides very little access to data from applications, as that is the responsibility of the applications themselves. Google has not elected to offer publicly documented and supported application APIs for Email, Gmail, or Messenger. This is not surprising, as only a tiny percentage of the applications developed by humanity offer APIs. It is disappointing, but not surprising. In addition, there are many other email and SMS clients, including custom ones written by device manufacturers and ones downloaded off of the Android Market. They may or may not have publicly documented and supported APIs. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy Android Training...At Your Office: http://commonsware.com/training -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
