So basically I’m attempting to make an interactive live wallaper that basically displays your unread gmail emails on your wallpaper. I’m trying to figure out how to access a person’s gmail account on their device (with their permission of course).
I came across this old question: How to get the number of unread gmail mails (on android) – which detailed how to get the number of unread emails and was hoping that would be a start. But my app was being denied the permission: com.google.android.gm.permission.READ_GMAIL. Upon further research I found this support thread: http://www.google.bg/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=1728955d050a12bd&hl=en – which basically says that at version 2.3.5 of Gmail they shut off that non-public api access to Gmail. Which broke a lot of apps at the time.. But yeah.
So basically. I was wondering if there’s a new correct way to do this? I haven’t been able to find one. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks,
The Java Mail API works really well for interacting with IMAP and POP3 mail servers and I have had success accessing GMAIL accounts with it. Looking over the API, I don’t see anything that would keep it from running on Android. I recommend that you give it a try: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javamail/index-138643.html