Backing up data on your Google mail account in Android

Question

I want to have my application periodically save a zip file to the cloud.

Since I don't want to set my own cloud solution, I thought of doing something similar to what the application SMS Backup does. It saves your Gmail credentials and when a new sms arrives it saves it to your Gmail under a specified Label and also marks it as read.

Now, I know how to send email from Java programmaticaly. My question is how to access Gmail only features such as assigning labels to the message and marking it as read. I imagine there must be some facilities built in to Android to allow you to manipulate the GMail account linked to the phone am i right?

Answer 1

In the latest versions of Android, Google provides a much more elegant and integrated solution in the form of the built-in data backup which apps can use. Documentation here: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/data/backup.html

Answer 2

I imagine there must be some facilities built in to Android to allow you to manipulate the GMail account linked to the phone am i right?

Sorry, GMail has no public API in the SDK.