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October 19, 2004
GMailChecker midlet
Since moving to GMail one of my frustrations has been my inability to check my mail from my phone. I've seen articles about setting up POP3 access, but that was not what I wanted. When I saw that the latest new features added an Atom feed then I saw an opportunity to make a small step towards my goal. So the I set about writing a J2ME Midlet that took this feed and displayed the same information as the GMail Notifier does.
With a little searching around I found MobileAtom which turned out to be a great starting point. With some modification and some trimming of the code I arrived at GMailChecker v0.9. Unfortunately the GMail feed uses HTTPS so I have ended up using MIDP2.0 limiting the number of handsets that will run it.
While GMailChecker runs happily in the emulator, real phones are a different experience. So far I have tried and succeeded with the Nokia 7610 & 6600. Both of these sometimes report an IO Error, retrying the request then works. However, on the P900 this error always occurs and retrying then causes the midlet to crash :-(
GMail currently uses an Equifax certificate that is not present on most phones. You will therefore get asked whether you want to connect to this untrusted site.
Please let me know your experiences with other phones.
For the next release I will continue to tidy up the UI and hopefully get to the bottom of the IO Error.
GMailChecker v0.9 Jad
GMailChecker v0.9 Jar
Posted by Posted by Martin at October 19, 2004 09:52 PM
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