I am trying to use an intent to send an email from my application but the To field of the email will not populate. If I add code to fill in the subject or text, they work fine.
I think you are not passing recipient
as array of string
it should be like
emailIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL,new String[] { "someone@gmail.com" });
In Kotlin - Android
fun sendMail(
activity: Activity,
emailIds: Array<String>,
subject: String,
textMessage: String
) {
val emailIntent = Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND)
emailIntent.type = "text/plain"
emailIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL, emailIds)
emailIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, subject)
emailIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, textMessage)
emailIntent.setType("message/rfc822")
try {
activity.startActivity(
Intent.createChooser(
emailIntent,
"Send email using..."
)
)
} catch (ex: ActivityNotFoundException) {
Toast.makeText(
activity,
"No email clients installed.",
Toast.LENGTH_SHORT
).show()
}
}
Also you can use [
val emailIntent = Intent(Intent.ACTION_SENDTO)
] to invoke direct email client
//argument of function
val subject = "subject of you email"
val eMailMessageTxt = "Add Message here"
val eMailId1 = "emailId1@gmail.com"
val eMailId2 = "emailId2@gmail.com"
val eMailIds: Array<String> = arrayOf(eMailId1,eMailId2)
//Calling function
sendMail(this, eMailIds, subject, eMailMessageTxt)
I hope this code snippet will help to kotlin developers.
Couple of things:
1 - You need to set the action constant variable as ACTION_SENDTO. Intent intentEmail = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SENDTO);
2 - If you want it to be opened by only the mail then use the setData() method: intentEmail.setData(Uri.parse("mailto:"));
Otherwise it will ask you to open it as text, image, audio file by other apps present on your device.
3 - You need to pass the email ID string as an array object and not just as a string. String is: "name@email.com". Array Object of the string is: new String[] {"email1", "email2", "more_email"}.
intentEmail.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL, new String[] {"email@overflow.com", "abcd@stack.com"});
Use this
public void Email(){
// use this to declare your 'recipient' string and get your email recipient from your string xml file
Resources res = getResources();
String recipient = getString(R.string.IntegralEmailAddress);
Intent emailIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
emailIntent.setType("message/rfc822"); //set the email recipient
emailIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL, recipient);
//let the user choose what email client to use
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(emailIntent, "Send mail using..."));
``}
This will work :)
This is what android documentation says about Intent.Extra_Email
-A string array of all "To" recipient email addresses.
So you should feed string properly
You can read more over here
http://developer.android.com/guide/components/intents-common.html#Email
and here http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/string-resource.html Or use the ACTION_SENDTO action and include the "mailto:" data scheme. For example:
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);
}
This is what works for me:
val email = "recipient@email.com"
val intent = Intent(Intent.ACTION_SENDTO)
intent.data = Uri.parse("mailto:$email")
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT,"My Subject")
startActivity(intent)
private void callSendMeMail() {
Intent Email = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
Email.setType("text/email");
Email.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL, new String[] { "me@gmail.com" });
Email.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "Feedback");
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(Email, "Send mail to Developer:"));
}