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What is Email?
- Email is messages distributed by electronic means from one system user to one or more recipients via a network.
- Previously starting Email Activity, you must know Email functionality with intent.
- Intent is carrying data from one component to another component with-in the application or outside the application.
- Send an email from your application, you don’t have to implement an email client from the starting, but you can use an existing one like the default Email app providing from Android, Gmail, Outlook, K-9 Mail etc.
- For this purpose, we need to write an Activity that launches an email client, using an implicit Intent with the right action and data.
- In this eg, we are going to send an email from our app by using an Intent object that launches existing email clients.
- In Android, you can use Intent.ACTION_SEND to call an existing email client to send an Email.
- See following code snippets:
Intent email = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
email.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL, new String[]{"youremail@yahoo.com"});
email.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "subject");
email.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "message");
email.setType("message/rfc822");
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(email, "Choose an Email client :"));
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- This project is developed in Eclipse 3.7, and tested with Samsung Galaxy S2 (Android 2.3.3).
Run & test on real device only.
- If you run this on emulator, you will hit error message: “No application can perform this action “. This code only works on real device.
Android Layout
- File: res/layout/main.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="@+id/linearLayout1"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<TextView
android:id="@+id/textViewPhoneNo"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="To : "
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge" />
<EditText
android:id="@+id/editTextTo"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:inputType="textEmailAddress" >
<requestFocus />
</EditText>
<TextView
android:id="@+id/textViewSubject"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Subject : "
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge" />
<EditText
android:id="@+id/editTextSubject"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
>
</EditText>
<TextView
android:id="@+id/textViewMessage"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Message : "
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge" />
<EditText
android:id="@+id/editTextMessage"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:gravity="top"
android:inputType="textMultiLine"
android:lines="5" />
<Button
android:id="@+id/buttonSend"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Send" />
</LinearLayout>
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Activity
- Full activity class to send an Email. Read the onClick() method, it should be self-explanatory.
package com.wikitechy.android;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.View.OnClickListener;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.EditText;
public class SendEmailActivity extends Activity {
Button buttonSend;
EditText textTo;
EditText textSubject;
EditText textMessage;
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
buttonSend = (Button) findViewById(R.id.buttonSend);
textTo = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editTextTo);
textSubject = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editTextSubject);
textMessage = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editTextMessage);
buttonSend.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
@Override
public void onClick(View v) {
String to = textTo.getText().toString();
String subject = textSubject.getText().toString();
String message = textMessage.getText().toString();
Intent email = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
email.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL, new String[]{ to});
//email.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_CC, new String[]{ to});
//email.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_BCC, new String[]{to});
email.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, subject);
email.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, message);
//need this to prompts email client only
email.setType("message/rfc822");
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(email, "Choose an Email client :"));
}
});
}
}
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Demo - android emulator - android tutorial
- See default Mobile display, fill in the detail, and click on the “send” button.
- It will prompt your existing Email client to select.
- In this case, we selected Gmail, and all previous filled in detail will be populated to Gmail client automatically.
Note
- Android doesn’t provide API to send Email directly, you have to call the existing Email client to send Email.