New way of doing this would be using ShareCompat.IntentBuilder like so:
// Create and fire off our Intent in one fell swoop
ShareCompat.IntentBuilder
// getActivity() or activity field if within Fragment
.from(this)
// The text that will be shared
.setText(textToShare)
// most general text sharing MIME type
.setType("text/plain")
.setStream(uriToContentThatMatchesTheArgumentOfSetType)
/*
* [OPTIONAL] Designate a URI to share. Your type that
* is set above will have to match the type of data
* that your designating with this URI. Not sure
* exactly what happens if you don't do that, but
* let's not find out.
*
* For example, to share an image, you'd do the following:
* File imageFile = ...;
* Uri uriToImage = ...; // Convert the File to URI
* Intent shareImage = ShareCompat.IntentBuilder.from(activity)
* .setType("image/png")
* .setStream(uriToImage)
* .getIntent();
*/
.setEmailTo(arrayOfStringEmailAddresses)
.setEmailTo(singleStringEmailAddress)
/*
* [OPTIONAL] Designate the email recipients as an array
* of Strings or a single String
*/
.setEmailTo(arrayOfStringEmailAddresses)
.setEmailTo(singleStringEmailAddress)
/*
* [OPTIONAL] Designate the email addresses that will be
* BCC'd on an email as an array of Strings or a single String
*/
.addEmailBcc(arrayOfStringEmailAddresses)
.addEmailBcc(singleStringEmailAddress)
/*
* The title of the chooser that the system will show
* to allow the user to select an app
*/
.setChooserTitle(yourChooserTitle)
.startChooser();
If you have any more questions about using ShareCompat, I highly recommend this great article from Ian Lake, an Android Developer Advocate at Google, for a more complete breakdown of the API. As you'll notice, I borrowed some of this example from that article.
If that article doesn't answer all of your questions, there is always the Javadoc itself for ShareCompat.IntentBuilder on the Android Developers website. I added more to this example of the API's usage on the basis of clemantiano's comment.