How to get the number of unread gmail mails (on android)

Question

Please note there is a new way of doing this

I\'ve been trying to get the number of unread gmail mails with no luck.

I\'ve read Gmail.java and gmail4j both l

Answer 1

static final String AUTHORITY = "com.google.android.gm";
static final String BASE_URI_STRING = "content://" + AUTHORITY;
static final String LABELS_PARAM = "/labels";
static final String ACCOUNT_TYPE_GOOGLE = "com.google";

public static final String NUM_UNREAD_CONVERSATIONS = "numUnreadConversations";
public static final String CANONICAL_NAME = "canonicalName";

public static final String CANONICAL_NAME_INBOX_CATEGORY_PRIMARY = "^sq_ig_i_personal";
static String[] GMAIL_PROJECTION = {
    CANONICAL_NAME, NUM_UNREAD_CONVERSATIONS
    };

public static Uri getLabelsUri(String account) {
    return Uri.parse(BASE_URI_STRING + "/" + account + LABELS_PARAM);
}

static String[] getAllAccountNames(Context context) {
   final Account[] accounts = AccountManager.get(context).getAccountsByType(
           ACCOUNT_TYPE_GOOGLE);
   final String[] accountNames = new String[accounts.length];
   for (int i = 0; i < accounts.length; i++) {
       accountNames[i] = accounts[i].name;
   }
   return accountNames;
}


protected static int getGmail(Context context) {
    ContentResolver cr = context.getContentResolver();
    Cursor cursor =        cr.query(Launcher.getLabelsUri(BadgeUtils.getAllAccountNames(context)[0]),
            GMAIL_PROJECTION,
            null, null,
            null);

    if (cursor == null || cursor.isAfterLast()) {
        Log.d(TAG, "No Gmail inbox information found for account.");
        if (cursor != null) {
            cursor.close();
        }
        return 0;
    }

    int count = 0;

    while (cursor.moveToNext()) {
        if (CANONICAL_NAME_INBOX_CATEGORY_PRIMARY.equals(cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex(CANONICAL_NAME)))) {
            count = cursor.getInt(cursor.getColumnIndex(NUM_UNREAD_CONVERSATIONS));;
            break;
        }
    }

    cursor.close();


    return count;
}

Hope above code helps. This should work on Android 2.2+.