Is there any way to create a notification when a new e-mail arrives in my Android inbox? I would like to show an animation when I receive a new e-mail or SMS - would this be possible without writing my own e-mail client?
I'd also like to be able to customize the notifications based on who the sender is, the subject line, etc - basically, the same sort of criteria I can use to filter a message using any of the big existing clients.
Has anyone tried this before? Do you have any suggestions?
Unfortunately there aren't any documented email intent triggers for either of the default email programs (email and gmail). Unfortunately I think your only option would be to write your own email client (and maybe file a bug report/feature request) or dig up a non-standard email client that DOES trigger intents on incoming email.
The Intent documentation has information on all of the built-in intents and intent triggers and openintents.org maintains a table of many (but not all) 3rd party intents.
For notification of incomming sms, this should be possible to do with AT UR codes (specifically AT+CNMA), see this answer for more details. This is provided that you have access to a modem serial port. I know too little about Android, but the phone part is normally abstracted though the RIL (right?), but is it still possible to access the modem part?