That’s really sad news because it means that we have to wait for Google adding support for third party apps to access gmails 

— ADDED LATER:

I just noticed that GMail has set the access permission to “signature”, so also rooting and installing my app as system app won’t work!!

You can find a modified Gmail.apk which has the permission restriction removed here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1199598

Now please hit “Menu->Record” and “Ok” to start a logfile recording session and then reproduce your problem, i.e. a scheduled alarm not showing up or any other false behaviour. Then go back to CatLog and hit “Menu->Stop Recording” and “Menu->Send->As Attachment->Your favorite mail app i.e. GMail” and send it to me. You can find my email adress in the market description.

If you don’t succeed please get in contact through the comments below.

After you send me the logfile you can delete it by hitting “Menu->More->Manage Saved Logs->Delete All”.

• /sdcard/media/alarms
• /sdcard/media/notifications
• /sdcard/media/ringtones

1. Go the the android market and install the app AndExplorer (its free)
2. Open a browser and go to my skin site or to the email-widget site and hit the “skin-site” link
3. Push one of the download links for a skin on the left
4. Now your browser should either download the file or it asks you which app to use to open the link, choose your browser
5. Your browser should download the file now
6. Start the AndExplorer and hit the “SDCARD” button on top
7. Go to the directory “download” or “downloads”. There you should find your downloaded skin file.
8. Long-press the file until it get’s checked
9. Now hit menu->copy/paste->cut.
10. Hit SDCARD again and go to the folder .de.foobarsoft.emailwidget (mind the leading dot!)
11. Then hit menu->copy/paste->paste

Now the file should be moved to the right spot. Open your widget configuration and go to the skin-settings. You should be able to choose the installed skin now.

Please mind: If you have downloaded skin files successfully please make sure to not unzip/unpack them.

If you have troubles installing skin files please read this detailed trouble shooting guide!

HTC like chrome skin Download htc_like_skin.zip (zip, 21.19 kB)
Simple black Download simple_black_skin.zip (zip, 26.74 kB)
Simple black with header Download simple_black_with_header_skin.zip (zip, 27 kB)
Green with black font Download green_skin.zip (zip, 25.92 kB)
Milk white with black font Download simple_white_skin.zip (zip, 26.49 kB)
IPhone like black skin with white text Download iphone_black_skin.zip (zip, 8.45 kB)
IPhone like blue skin with black text Download iphone_blue_skin.zip (zip, 10.28 kB)
IPhone like green skin with black text Download iphone_green_skin.zip (zip, 10.46 kB)
IPhone like orange skin with black text Download iphone_orange_skin.zip (zip, 9.47 kB)
IPhone like purple skin with black text Download iphone_purple_skin.zip (zip, 10.14 kB)
IPhone like red skin with black text Download iphone_red_skin.zip (zip, 10.39 kB)
IPhone like yellow skin with black text Download iphone_yellow_skin.zip (zip, 9.39 kB)
Aqua blue skin with white font Download aqua_skin.zip (zip, 12.71 kB)
Black glass skin with white font Download glass_skin.zip (zip, 9.31 kB)
Blue glass skin with white font Download glass_blue_skin.zip (zip, 8.48 kB)
Red glass skin with white font Download glass_red_skin.zip (zip, 8.38 kB)
Violett glass skin with white font Download glass_violett_skin.zip (zip, 8.36 kB)

Installing Skins

1. Create directory /sdcard/.de.foobarsoft.emailwidget/ or select the skin-option from “skinning”-menu of widget configuration (this will create the directory for you)
2. Download a skinfile (must be a zip-file with the naming convention _skin.zip)
3. Put the skinfile in the directory created above (do not unpack it!)
4. Select the skin-option from “skinning”-menu of widget configuraion. The skin should now be selectable.

Updating Skins

1. Copy the new skin-file to the skin directory (/sdcard/.de.foobarsoft.emailwidget/)
2. Open the skinning-menu from widget configuration.
3. Select option “Delete Skin Cache”
4. After that you can select skin-option and open the skin manager. The skin will get updated.

Creating own skins

1. Create an XML-Textfile and name it skin_config.xml (you can find an example file here: skin_config.xml (xml, 611 bytes)).
2. Set a skin name and description
3. Create a background png image. If you want to create a scalable background please use the background png of one of the provided skins as template and copy the nine_patch_chunk information into you skin-xml. You can also just create a background image for your desired skin size without the nine_patch_chunk, but this has to be of the correct image size.
4. Optional: Create some icon png images for refresh and config buttons.
5. Optional: Set the font color for header and text lines (RGB in hex with format #RRGGBB, #000000 = Black, #FFFFFF = White), default is black. You can use the html color picker to select a desired color.

• An Email Widget, which shows your recent emails (Exchange, POP3, IMAP) and allowes you to open them from your homescreen
• A calendar event reminder which allows you to set a vibration pattern for nagging event alerts

The first one was really a tough nut to crack, because the android core surprisingly doesn’t provide easy access to emails stored on the phone. You have to use a private api, which unfortunately isn’t documented at all. Also this api is secured on the latest android release, so it is impossible to get the app working without rooting the phone. Additionally the mail app seems not yet technically mature enough, so many device manufacturer like HTC are providing their own implementation of it. This made it even more difficult to build the app.

Thanks to the feedback of several users i was able to improve the apps and make them more feature rich. I also created a twitter account for publishing news on recent development for the apps. You are welcome to follow me there.

Link: www.youtube.com