Send Email Intent

Question

Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
intent.setType(\"text/html\");
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL, \"emailaddress@emailaddress.com\");
intent.putExtr         


        

Answer 1

From Android developers docs:

public void composeEmail(String[] addresses, String subject) {
    Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SENDTO);
    intent.setData(Uri.parse("mailto:")); // only email apps should handle this
    intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL, addresses);
    intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, subject);
    if (intent.resolveActivity(getPackageManager()) != null) {
        startActivity(intent);
    }
}

Answer 2

Works on All android Versions:

String[] TO = {"email@server.com"};
    Uri uri = Uri.parse("mailto:email@server.com")
            .buildUpon()
            .appendQueryParameter("subject", "subject")
            .appendQueryParameter("body", "body")
            .build();
    Intent emailIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SENDTO, uri);
    emailIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL, TO);
    startActivity(Intent.createChooser(emailIntent, "Send mail..."));

updated for android 10, now using kotlin.

fun Context.sendEmail(adress:String?,subject:String?,body:String?){
val TO = arrayOf(adress)
val uri = Uri.parse(adress)
    .buildUpon()
    .appendQueryParameter("subject", subject)
    .appendQueryParameter("body", body)
    .build()
val emailIntent = Intent(Intent.ACTION_SENDTO, uri)
emailIntent.setData(Uri.parse("mailto:$adress"));
emailIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, subject);
emailIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, body);
emailIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL, TO)
ContextCompat.startActivity(this,Intent.createChooser(emailIntent, "Send 
mail..."),null)
}

Answer 3

This works for me:

Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SENDTO);
intent.setData(Uri.parse("mailto:"));
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL  , new String[] { "me@somewhere.com" });
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "My subject");

startActivity(Intent.createChooser(intent, "Email via..."));

i.e. use the ACTION_SENDTO action rather than the ACTION_SEND action. I've tried it on a couple of Android 4.4 devices and it limits the chooser pop-up to only display email applications (Email, Gmail, Yahoo Mail etc) and it correctly inserts the email address and subject into the email.

Answer 4

Compose an email in the phone email client:

Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
intent.setType("plain/text");
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL, new String[] { "some@email.address" });
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "subject");
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "mail body");
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(intent, ""));

Answer 5

Most of these answers work only for a simple case when you are not sending attachment. In my case I need sometimes to send attachment (ACTION_SEND) or two attachments (ACTION_SEND_MULTIPLE).

So I took best approaches from this thread and combined them. It's using support library's ShareCompat.IntentBuilder but I show only apps which match the ACTION_SENDTO with "mailto:" uri. This way I get only list of email apps with attachment support:

fun Activity.sendEmail(recipients: List<String>, subject: String, file: Uri, text: String? = null, secondFile: Uri? = null) {
    val originalIntent = createEmailShareIntent(recipients, subject, file, text, secondFile)
    val emailFilterIntent = Intent(Intent.ACTION_SENDTO, Uri.parse("mailto:"))
    val originalIntentResults = packageManager.queryIntentActivities(originalIntent, 0)
    val emailFilterIntentResults = packageManager.queryIntentActivities(emailFilterIntent, 0)
    val targetedIntents = originalIntentResults
            .filter { originalResult -> emailFilterIntentResults.any { originalResult.activityInfo.packageName == it.activityInfo.packageName } }
            .map {
                createEmailShareIntent(recipients, subject, file, text, secondFile).apply { `package` = it.activityInfo.packageName }
            }
            .toMutableList()
    val finalIntent = Intent.createChooser(targetedIntents.removeAt(0), R.string.choose_email_app.toText())
    finalIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_INITIAL_INTENTS, targetedIntents.toTypedArray())
    startActivity(finalIntent)
}

private fun Activity.createEmailShareIntent(recipients: List<String>, subject: String, file: Uri, text: String? = null, secondFile: Uri? = null): Intent {
    val builder = ShareCompat.IntentBuilder.from(this)
            .setType("message/rfc822")
            .setEmailTo(recipients.toTypedArray())
            .setStream(file)
            .setSubject(subject)
    if (secondFile != null) {
        builder.addStream(secondFile)
    }
    if (text != null) {
        builder.setText(text)
    }
    return builder.intent
}

Answer 6

If you want to target Gmail then you could do the following. Note that the intent is "ACTION_SENDTO" and not "ACTION_SEND" and the extra intent fields are not necessary for Gmail.

String uriText =
    "mailto:youremail@gmail.com" + 
    "?subject=" + Uri.encode("your subject line here") + 
    "&body=" + Uri.encode("message body here");

Uri uri = Uri.parse(uriText);

Intent sendIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SENDTO);
sendIntent.setData(uri);
if (sendIntent.resolveActivity(getPackageManager()) != null) {
   startActivity(Intent.createChooser(sendIntent, "Send message")); 
}