Android: How to login into webpage programmatically, using HttpsURLConnection

Question

I\'m new in Android (and in Java too), so sorry if my problem is a basic proposition! I have to write an Android app, whitch signs into an aspx webpage in the background, get s

Answer 1

What you are trying to do is parse the Gmail html page. This is wrongn approach as Gmail uses javascript to build the page. Your code would have to emulate browser (execute javascript) for this to work.

If you only need read access to Gmail then use Gmail inbox feed API. This gives you access to unread messages in inbox.

If you need full access then see the Gmail IMAP access. As IMAP is a different protocol then HTTP you'd need to use separate IMAP library for java. See this tutorial.