Send Email Intent

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Intent intent   new Intent Intent ACTION SEND   intent setType  text html    intent putExtra Intent EXTRA EMAIL   emailaddress emailaddress com    intent putExtra Intent EXTRA SUBJECT   Subject    intent putExtra Intent EXTRA TEXT   I m email body      startActivity Intent createChooser intent   Send Email       The above code opens a dialog showing following apps - Bluetooth  Google Docs  Yahoo Mail  Gmail  Orkut  Skype etc   Actually  I want to filter these list-options  I want to show only email related apps e g  Gmail  Yahoo Mail  How to do it   I ve seen such example on  Android Market  application     Open Android Market app  Open any application where developer has specified his her email address   If you can t find such app just open my app - market   details id com becomputer06 vehicle diary free   OR search by  Vehicle Diary   Scroll down to  DEVELOPER  Click on  Send Email    The dialog shows only email Apps e g  Gmail  Yahoo Mail etc  It does not show Bluetooth  Orkut etc  What code produces such dialog

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A late answer  although I figured out a solution which could help others  Java version Intent emailIntent   new Intent Intent ACTION SENDTO   emailIntent setData Uri parse  quot mailto abc xyz com quot     startActivity Intent createChooser emailIntent   quot Send feedback quot       Kotlin version val emailIntent   Intent Intent ACTION SENDTO  apply        data   Uri parse  quot mailto abc xyz com quot     startActivity Intent createChooser emailIntent   quot Send feedback quot      This was my output  only Gmail   Inbox suggested    I got this solution from the Android Developers site

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This works for me perfectly fine       Intent intent   new Intent Intent ACTION VIEW       intent setData Uri parse  mailto     address        startActivity Intent createChooser intent   E-mail

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SEND TO EMAIL CLIENTS ONLY - WITH MULTIPLE ATTACHMENTS  There are many solutions but all work partially   mailto properly filters email apps but it has the inability of not sending streams files   message rfc822 opens up hell of apps along with email clients  so  the solution for this is to use both    First resolve intent activities using mailto intent Then set the data to each activity resolved to send the required data   private void share          Intent queryIntent   new Intent Intent ACTION SENDTO  Uri parse  mailto           Intent dataIntent    getDataIntent          Intent targetIntent   getSelectiveIntentChooser context  queryIntent  dataIntent        startActivityForResult targetIntent       Build the required data intent which is filled with required data to share  private Intent getDataIntent             Intent dataIntent   buildIntent Intent ACTION SEND  null   message rfc822   null               Set subject         dataIntent putExtra Intent EXTRA SUBJECT  title              Set receipient list          dataIntent putExtra Intent EXTRA EMAIL  toRecipients           dataIntent putExtra Intent EXTRA CC  ccRecipients           dataIntent putExtra Intent EXTRA BCC  bccRecipients           if  hasAttachments                          ArrayList lt Uri gt  uris   getAttachmentUriList                 if  uris size    gt  1                                intent setAction Intent ACTION SEND MULTIPLE                   dataIntent putExtra Intent EXTRA STREAM  uris                             else                               dataIntent putParcelableArrayListExtra Intent EXTRA STREAM  uris get 0                                     return dataIntent     protected ArrayList lt Uri gt  getAttachmentUriList             ArrayList lt Uri gt  uris   new ArrayList            for  AttachmentInfo eachAttachment   attachments                        uris add eachAttachment uri                      return uris      Utitlity class for filtering required intents based on query intent     Placed in IntentUtil java public static Intent getSelectiveIntentChooser Context context  Intent queryIntent  Intent dataIntent            List lt ResolveInfo gt  appList   context getPackageManager   queryIntentActivities queryIntent  PackageManager MATCH DEFAULT ONLY            Intent finalIntent   null           if   appList isEmpty                          List lt android content Intent gt  targetedIntents   new ArrayList lt android content Intent gt                  for  ResolveInfo resolveInfo   appList                                String packageName   resolveInfo activityInfo    null   resolveInfo activityInfo packageName   null                   Intent allowedIntent   new Intent dataIntent                   allowedIntent setComponent new ComponentName packageName  resolveInfo activityInfo name                    allowedIntent setPackage packageName                    targetedIntents add allowedIntent                              if   targetedIntents isEmpty                                    Share Intent                 Intent startIntent   targetedIntents remove 0                    Intent chooserIntent   android content Intent createChooser startIntent                       chooserIntent putExtra android content Intent EXTRA INITIAL INTENTS  targetedIntents toArray new Parcelable                        chooserIntent addFlags android content Intent FLAG GRANT READ URI PERMISSION                    finalIntent   chooserIntent                                    if  finalIntent    null    As a fallback  we are using the sent data intent                       finalIntent   dataIntent                     return finalIntent

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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 lt String gt   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 - gt  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 lt String gt   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

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in Kotlin if anyone is looking  val emailArrray Array lt String gt    arrayOf  travelagentsupport kkk com   val intent   Intent Intent ACTION SENDTO  intent data   Uri parse  mailto       only email apps should handle this intent putExtra Intent EXTRA EMAIL  emailArrray  intent putExtra Intent EXTRA SUBJECT   Inquire about travel agent   if  intent resolveActivity getPackageManager       null        startActivity intent

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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            amp 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

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If you want only the email clients you should use android content Intent EXTRA EMAIL with an array  Here goes an example   final Intent result   new Intent android content Intent ACTION SEND   result setType  plain text    result putExtra android content Intent EXTRA EMAIL  new String     recipient     result putExtra android content Intent EXTRA SUBJECT  subject   result putExtra android content Intent EXTRA TEXT  body

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Sometimes you need to open default email app to view the inbox without creating a new letter  in this case it will help  Intent intent   new Intent Intent ACTION MAIN   intent addCategory Intent CATEGORY APP EMAIL   intent addFlags Intent FLAG ACTIVITY NEW TASK   if  intent resolveActivity getPackageManager       null        startActivity intent

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Maybe you should try this  intent setType  plain text     I found it here  I ve used it in my app and it shows only E-Mail and Gmail options

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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

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With Kotlin  works with Gmail    val i   Intent Intent ACTION SENDTO  apply       type    text html      data   Uri parse  mailto        putExtra Intent EXTRA EMAIL  arrayOf email       putExtra Intent EXTRA SUBJECT  subject      putExtra Intent EXTRA TITLE  subject    if  packageManager    null  amp  amp  i resolveActivity packageManager     null        startActivity i      If anyone find a solution to display the message too

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There is an easy solution also with ACTION VIEW    Intent intent   new Intent Intent ACTION VIEW           Uri data   Uri parse  quot mailto customer something com subject Feedback quot            intent setData data           startActivity intent

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Using intent setType  message rfc822    does work but it shows extra apps that not necessarily handling emails  e g  GDrive   Using Intent ACTION SENDTO with setType  text plain   is the best but you have to add setData Uri parse  mailto     to get the best results  only email apps   The full code is as follows   Intent intent   new Intent Intent ACTION SENDTO   intent setType  text plain    intent setData Uri parse  mailto IT RMAsoft NET     intent putExtra Intent EXTRA SUBJECT   Email from My app    intent putExtra Intent EXTRA TEXT   Place your email message here        startActivity Intent createChooser intent   Send Email

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There are three main approaches   String email      Your email address here    String subject      Your subject here    String body      Your body here    String chooserTitle      Your chooser title here      1  Custom Uri   Uri uri   Uri parse  mailto     email       buildUpon        appendQueryParameter  subject   subject       appendQueryParameter  body   body       build     Intent emailIntent   new Intent Intent ACTION SENDTO  uri   startActivity Intent createChooser emailIntent  chooserTitle      2  Using Intent extras   Intent emailIntent   new Intent Intent ACTION SENDTO  Uri parse  mailto     email    emailIntent putExtra Intent EXTRA SUBJECT  subject   emailIntent putExtra Intent EXTRA TEXT  body     emailIntent putExtra Intent EXTRA HTML TEXT  body     If you are using HTML in your body text  startActivity Intent createChooser emailIntent   Chooser Title       3  Support Library ShareCompat   Activity activity      Your activity here     ShareCompat IntentBuilder from activity       setType  message rfc822        addEmailTo email       setSubject subject       setText body         setHtmlText body    If you are using HTML in your body text      setChooserTitle chooserTitle       startChooser

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Intent emailIntent   new Intent Intent ACTION SENDTO  Uri fromParts  mailto   email  null    if  emailIntent resolveActivity context getPackageManager       null        context startActivity Intent createChooser emailIntent   Send Email          else       Toast makeText context   No apps can perform this action    Toast LENGTH SHORT  show

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Finally come up with best way to do  String to    test gmail com   String subject   Hi I am subject   String body  Hi I am test body   String mailTo    mailto     to              amp subject     Uri encode subject              amp body     Uri encode body   Intent emailIntent   new Intent Intent ACTION VIEW   emailIntent setData Uri parse mailTo    startActivity emailIntent

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If you want to ensure that your intent is handled only by an email app  and not other text messaging or social apps   then use the ACTION SENDTO action and include the  mailto   data scheme  For example   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             I found this in https   developer android com guide components intents-common html Email

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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

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Following Code worked for me    import android support v4 app ShareCompat                          final Intent intent   ShareCompat IntentBuilder                          from activity                           setType  application txt                            setSubject subject                           setText  Hii                            setChooserTitle  Select One                            createChooserIntent                            addFlags Intent FLAG ACTIVITY CLEAR WHEN TASK RESET                           addFlags Intent FLAG GRANT READ URI PERMISSION    activity startActivity intent

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None of these solutions were working for me  Here s a minimal solution that works on Lollipop  On my device  only Gmail and the native email apps appear in the resulting chooser list   Intent emailIntent   new Intent Intent ACTION SENDTO                                  Uri parse  mailto     Uri encode address      emailIntent putExtra Intent EXTRA SUBJECT  subject   emailIntent putExtra Intent EXTRA TEXT  body   startActivity Intent createChooser emailIntent   Send email via

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This code is working in my device   Intent mIntent   new Intent Intent ACTION SENDTO   mIntent setData Uri parse  mailto      mIntent putExtra Intent EXTRA EMAIL    new String     mahendrarajdhami gmail com     mIntent putExtra Intent EXTRA SUBJECT       startActivity Intent createChooser mIntent   Send Email Using

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This is the proper way to send the e-mail intent according to the Android Developer Official Documentation Add these lines of code to your app  Intent intent   new Intent Intent ACTION SEND    common intent  intent setData Uri parse  quot mailto  quot        only email apps should handle this  Optional  Add the body and subject  like this intent putExtra Intent EXTRA SUBJECT   quot Your Subject Here quot    intent putExtra Intent EXTRA TEXT   quot E-mail body quot      You already added this line in your question intent putExtra Intent EXTRA EMAIL  new String    quot donotemail-stack-overflow unitmeasure-app xyzed quot      This will be the recipient s address  meaning the user will send you  the developer  an e-mail

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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

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UPDATE Official approach  public void composeEmail String   addresses  String subject        Intent intent   new Intent Intent ACTION SENDTO       intent setData Uri parse  quot mailto  quot        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            Ref link OLD ANSWER The accepted answer doesn t work on the 4 1 2  This should work on all platforms  Intent emailIntent   new Intent Intent ACTION SENDTO  Uri fromParts               quot mailto quot   quot abc gmail com quot   null    emailIntent putExtra Intent EXTRA SUBJECT   quot Subject quot    emailIntent putExtra Intent EXTRA TEXT   quot Body quot    startActivity Intent createChooser emailIntent   quot Send email    quot      Update  According to marcwjj  it seems that on 4 3  we need to pass string array instead of a string for email address to make it work  We might need to add one more line  intent putExtra Intent EXTRA EMAIL  addresses      String   addresses

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use Anko - kotlin  context email email  subject  body

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Works on All android Versions  String   TO     quot email server com quot        Uri uri   Uri parse  quot mailto email server com quot                buildUpon                appendQueryParameter  quot subject quot    quot subject quot                appendQueryParameter  quot body quot    quot body quot                build        Intent emailIntent   new Intent Intent ACTION SENDTO  uri       emailIntent putExtra Intent EXTRA EMAIL  TO       startActivity Intent createChooser emailIntent   quot Send mail    quot      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  quot subject quot   subject       appendQueryParameter  quot body quot   body       build   val emailIntent   Intent Intent ACTION SENDTO  uri  emailIntent setData Uri parse  quot mailto  adress quot     emailIntent putExtra Intent EXTRA SUBJECT  subject   emailIntent putExtra Intent EXTRA TEXT  body   emailIntent putExtra Intent EXTRA EMAIL  TO  ContextCompat startActivity this Intent createChooser emailIntent   quot Send  mail    quot   null

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Use this   boolean success   EmailIntentBuilder from activity           to  support example org            cc  developer example org            subject  Error report            body buildErrorReport             start      use build gradle    compile  de cketti mailto email-intent-builder 1 0 0

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The following code works for me fine   Intent intent   new Intent Intent ACTION SEND   intent setType  message rfc822    intent putExtra Intent EXTRA SUBJECT  subject   intent putExtra Intent EXTRA EMAIL  new String    abc gmailcom     Intent mailer   Intent createChooser intent  null   startActivity mailer

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I am updating Adil s answer in Kotlin   val intent   Intent Intent ACTION SENDTO  intent data   Uri parse  mailto       only email apps should handle this intent putExtra Intent EXTRA EMAIL  Array 1     test email com     intent putExtra Intent EXTRA SUBJECT   subject   if  intent resolveActivity packageManager     null        startActivity intent    else       showSnackBar getString R string no apps found to send mail   this

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This is what I use  and it works for me     variables String subject    Whatever subject you want   String body    Whatever text you want to put in the body   String intentType    text html   String mailToParse    mailto       start Intent Intent variableName   new Intent Intent ACTION SENDTO   variableName setType intentType   variableName setData Uri parse mailToParse    variableName putExtra Intent EXTRA SUBJECT  subject   variableName putExtra Intent EXTRA TEXT  body    startActivity variableName     This will also let the user choose their preferred email app  The only thing this does not allow you to do is to set the recipient s email address

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Edit  Not working anymore with new versions of Gmail  This was the only way I found at the time to get it to work with any characters   doreamon s answer is the correct way to go now  as it works with all characters in new versions of Gmail   Old answer     Here is mine  It seems to works on all Android versions  with subject and message body support  and full utf-8 characters support   public static void email Context context  String to  String subject  String body        StringBuilder builder   new StringBuilder  mailto     Uri encode to        if  subject    null            builder append   subject     Uri encode Uri encode subject             if  body    null                builder append   amp body     Uri encode Uri encode body                         String uri   builder toString        Intent intent   new Intent Intent ACTION SENDTO  Uri parse uri        context startActivity intent

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when you will change your  intent setType like below you will get  intent setType  text plain      Use android content Intent ACTION SENDTO to get only the list of e-mail clients  with no facebook or other apps  Just the email clients  Ex   new Intent Intent ACTION SENDTO     I wouldn t suggest you get directly to the email app  Let the user choose his favorite email app  Don t constrain him   If you use ACTION SENDTO  putExtra does not work to add subject and text to the intent  Use Uri to add the subject and body text   EDIT  We can use message rfc822 instead of  text plain  as the MIME type  However  that is not indicating  only offer email clients  -- it indicates  offer anything that supports message rfc822 data   That could readily include some application that are not email clients    message rfc822 supports MIME Types of  mhtml   mht   mime

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This is quoted from Android official doc  I ve tested it on Android 4 4  and works perfectly  See more examples at https   developer android com guide components intents-common html Email  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

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Please use the below code                    try                        String uriText                                mailto emailid                                          subject     Uri encode  Feedback for app                                           amp body     Uri encode deviceInfo                       Uri uri   Uri parse uriText                       Intent emailIntent   new Intent Intent ACTION SENDTO                       emailIntent setData uri                       startActivity Intent createChooser emailIntent   Send email using                          catch  android content ActivityNotFoundException ex                        Toast makeText ContactUsActivity this   No email clients installed    Toast LENGTH SHORT  show

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Try    intent setType  message rfc822

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