This page contains information on skins for my app android email widget. Here is a list of available skins for free download. Below are instructions on installing, updating or creating skins. If you’ve created a skin and want to share it, please get in contact with me or post a link to it in the comments down below so i can add it to this list.

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

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Use this Android Application to put a widget with your recent emails of a certain email folder on your homescreen. You can use it with every synced email folder for an Exchange, POP3, IMAP or GMail Account.  You can find many custom skins on my Skin Site. The following environments are supported by this app/widget:

For “only with root” please see the description (Installing as system app) below!

By touching the widget you can open emails (GMail only with internal viewer) or the email app. Additionally it displays a small icon to indicate wether a mail is read / unread (K9 does not support this feature). You can use it as 3x(1-4) or 4x(1-4) widget. Different widget configurations are supporte.

Update Version 5.4:

• Added support for Enhanced Email
• Messages can now be opened from widget for K9 provider (PLEASE UPDATE TO LATEST K9 mail!)
• Added internal viewer for GMail provider
• Resizing of widget now supported (depends on launcher)
• For GMail provider the widget now displays messages instead of conversations
• Fixed: GMail provider now displays messages from inbox only if “only unread” is selected

Follow me on Twitter @invalidobject_ to get infos on recent develeopment.

ATTENTION: The App doesn’t work on Android 2.2 / Froyo (except for HTC) for the build in mail app out of the box, because of the strict permission system (technical details here). You can bypass this by installing the app as a system app. For this root access is required, explanation below. You can also use K9 or Enhanced Email.

GMail support only works out of the box until GMail V2.3.4.1. On the current version c.2.3.5 Google locked down GMail. Please see this post.

Please feel free to contact me for any feature-requests, bugs, ideas, questions or other feedback through the comments below. If you have any problems, send me a mail with the detailed logfile (option in the app menu, file is located under /sdcard/emailwidget_log.txt) for support.

Installing app as a system app

PLEASE NOTE: The following is at your own risk. I will not be responsible for any damage or malfunction of your device! Please also mind, that rooting might void your warranty.

You only need to do this, if my app tells you that android has blocked access to your mails (see screenshot below). If this does not appear but you cannot choose a mail folder, then your phone stores mails in a non standard and non compatible mode.

Option 1 (via File Manager):

Required:

• Root access + Super Manager (it’s free)

1. Install the app emailWidget from the market
2. Be sure not to put a widget of the app on a homescreen
3. Start Super Manager
4. Go to Settings and activate root support (Enable ROOT functions)
5. Go back and open the File Explorer
6. Move to directory /data/app
7. Find my app Email Widget (look out for the app icon) and select it
8. Use the “cut”-symbol from the commands below (the scissors)
9. Now hit Menu->Switch System R/W->R/W (this makes System folder writeable)
10. Go to /system/app and paste my app in it (the command icon which looks like a sketch sheet)
11. Now reboot

Option 2 (via shell):

Required:

• Root access + busybox (I used oneclicklagfix from the market)
• Better Terminal Emulator

1. Install the app emailWidget from the market
2. Be sure not to put a widget of the app on a homescreen
3. Start Better Terminal Emulator
4. Type in the following commands (without the content in brackets)
5. su (get root)
6. mount -oremount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock4 /system (remount the system-filesystem read/write)
7. cd /data/app (go to the directory /data/app)
8. busybox mv de.foobarsoft.emailwidget.apk /sdcard (move app to your sdcard, app gets uninstalled)
9. cd /sdcard (go to the directory /sdcard)
10. busybox mv de.foobarsoft.emailwidget.apk /system/app (move app to system-folder, app gets installed as system app)
11. Maybe you have to restart your phone.

Now you should see the app in you app-folder again. Select a mail folder now and add the widget to your homescreen. It should work now. For Froyo Users: Please see the comment below.

Note: Some devices require to enable modifying the system-directory by putting the device to a mode called S-OFF. This is the case if you start your device after the steps above and the directory /system/app does not contain the emailwidget-apk. You can find information on putting your device to S-OFF here.