Android Gmail api：如何访问未添加到设备的gmail帐户的gmail帐户

Question

While using the Gmail apis is it possible to pass "password" from my app. What i see is that the credentials ( accountname / email and password ) are internally taken from the google accounts added to the device. (Is this understanding correct ). My requirement is to let the user add his email / and password directly in my app .can the user access a gmail account which is not added to devices gmail acccounts.

Answer 1

You can use the Gmail REST API to get basic access to any Gmail account which is not registered on the device, but you must use OAuth2 to authenticate the user.

Alternatively, you could implement a POP or IMAP client in your app, but the user needs to explicitly enable access in their Gmail account.

It might be helpful if you explain in your question why you need access to the user's email - what does your App do with access to a user's email that a normal email client doesn't?