[android-developers] Email-dependent app

I'm trying to design an app which monitors how often users check their
email inboxes and also which has behaviour which depends on the rate
of these checks- i.e. punishing for overfrequent checks.

As I'm new to Android programming, I'm not quite sure if this is
possible as it would need to be dependent on another process which I'm
not in control of (the default Email process/application that is used
in Android). As far as I know, the email service runs in the
background but when you check your inbox/open the application it runs
in the foreground.

Can you have behaviour dependent on a foreground process like this? Is
there another way of doing this?

Thanks.

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