Android Send Email

Sending E-mail

Now that you’ve seen how to send SMS messages in Android, you might assume that

you can access similar APIs to send e-mail. Unfortunately, Android does not provide

APIs for you to send e-mail. The general consensus is that users don’t want an

Sending E-mail

Now that you’ve seen how to send SMS messages in Android, you might assume thatyou can access similar APIs to send e-mail. Unfortunately, Android does not provideAPIs for you to send e-mail. The general consensus is that users don’t want an

application to start sending e-mail on their behalf. Instead, to send e-mail, you have to

go through the registered e-mail application. For example, you could use ACTION_SEND to

launch the e-mail application:

Intent emailIntent=new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);

String subject = "Hi!";

String body = "hello from android....";

String[] extra = new String[]{"aaa@bbb.com"};

emailIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL, extra);

emailIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, subject);

emailIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, body);

emailIntent.setType("message/rfc822");

startActivity(emailIntent);

This code launches the default e-mail application and allows the user to decide whether

to send the e-mail or not. Other “extras” that you can add to an email intent include

EXTRA_CC and EXTRA_BCC.

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