How to send emails from my Android application

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I am developing an application in Android  I don t know how to send an email from the application

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The strategy of using  setType  message rfc822   or ACTION SEND seems to also match apps that aren t email clients  such as Android Beam and Bluetooth   Using ACTION SENDTO and a mailto  URI seems to work perfectly  and is recommended in the developer documentation  However  if you do this on the official emulators and there aren t any email accounts set up  or there aren t any mail clients   you get the following error      Unsupported action      That action is not currently supported    As shown below     It turns out that the emulators resolve the intent to an activity called com android fallback Fallback  which displays the above message  Apparently this is by design   If you want your app to circumvent this so it also works correctly on the official emulators  you can check for it before trying to send the email   private void sendEmail         Intent intent   new Intent Intent ACTION SENDTO           setData new Uri Builder   scheme  mailto   build             putExtra Intent EXTRA EMAIL  new String     John Smith  lt johnsmith yourdomain com gt               putExtra Intent EXTRA SUBJECT   Email subject            putExtra Intent EXTRA TEXT   Email body              ComponentName emailApp   intent resolveActivity getPackageManager         ComponentName unsupportedAction   ComponentName unflattenFromString  com android fallback  Fallback        if  emailApp    null  amp  amp   emailApp equals unsupportedAction           try                  Needed to customise the chooser dialog title since it might default to  Share with                 Note that the chooser will still be skipped if only one app is matched             Intent chooser   Intent createChooser intent   Send email with                startActivity chooser               return                    catch  ActivityNotFoundException ignored                   Toast          makeText this   Couldn t find an email app and account   Toast LENGTH LONG           show        Find more info in the developer documentation

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This function first direct intent gmail for sending email  if gmail is not found then promote intent chooser  I used this function in many commercial app and it s working fine  Hope it will help you   public static void sentEmail Context mContext  String   addresses  String subject  String body         try           Intent sendIntentGmail   new Intent Intent ACTION VIEW           sendIntentGmail setType  plain text            sendIntentGmail setData Uri parse TextUtils join      addresses             sendIntentGmail setClassName  com google android gm    com google android gm ComposeActivityGmail            sendIntentGmail putExtra Intent EXTRA EMAIL  addresses           if  subject    null  sendIntentGmail putExtra Intent EXTRA SUBJECT  subject           if  body    null  sendIntentGmail putExtra Intent EXTRA TEXT  body           mContext startActivity sendIntentGmail         catch  Exception e              When Gmail App is not installed or disable         Intent sendIntentIfGmailFail   new Intent Intent ACTION SEND           sendIntentIfGmailFail setType                 sendIntentIfGmailFail putExtra Intent EXTRA EMAIL  addresses           if  subject    null  sendIntentIfGmailFail putExtra Intent EXTRA SUBJECT  subject           if  body    null  sendIntentIfGmailFail putExtra Intent EXTRA TEXT  body           if  sendIntentIfGmailFail resolveActivity mContext getPackageManager       null                mContext startActivity sendIntentIfGmailFail

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Sending email can be done with Intents which will require no configuration  But then it will require user interaction and the layout will be a bit restricted   Build and sending a more complex email without user interaction entails building your own client  The first thing is that the Sun Java API for email are unavailable  I have had success leveraging the Apache Mime4j library to build email  All based on the docs at nilvec

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I was using something along the lines of the currently accepted answer in order to send emails with an attached binary error log file  GMail and K-9 send it just fine and it also arrives fine on my mail server  The only problem was my mail client of choice Thunderbird which had troubles with opening   saving the attached log file  In fact it simply didn t save the file at all without complaining   I took a look at one of these mail s source codes and noticed that the log file attachment had  understandably  the mime type message rfc822  Of course that attachment is not an attached email  But Thunderbird cannot cope with that tiny error gracefully  So that was kind of a bummer   After a bit of research and experimenting I came up with the following solution   public Intent createEmailOnlyChooserIntent Intent source      CharSequence chooserTitle        Stack lt Intent gt  intents   new Stack lt Intent gt         Intent i   new Intent Intent ACTION SENDTO  Uri fromParts  mailto                info domain com   null        List lt ResolveInfo gt  activities   getPackageManager                queryIntentActivities i  0        for ResolveInfo ri   activities            Intent target   new Intent source           target setPackage ri activityInfo packageName           intents add target              if  intents isEmpty              Intent chooserIntent   Intent createChooser intents remove 0                   chooserTitle           chooserIntent putExtra Intent EXTRA INITIAL INTENTS                  intents toArray new Parcelable intents size                return chooserIntent        else           return Intent createChooser source  chooserTitle             It can be used as follows   Intent i   new Intent Intent ACTION SEND   i setType         i putExtra Intent EXTRA STREAM  Uri fromFile crashLogFile    i putExtra Intent EXTRA EMAIL  new String         ANDROID SUPPORT EMAIL     i putExtra Intent EXTRA SUBJECT   Crash report    i putExtra Intent EXTRA TEXT   Some crash report details     startActivity createEmailOnlyChooserIntent i   Send via email       As you can see  the createEmailOnlyChooserIntent method can be easily fed with the correct intent and the correct mime type   It then goes through the list of available activities that respond to an ACTION SENDTO mailto protocol intent  which are email apps only  and constructs a chooser based on that list of activities and the original ACTION SEND intent with the correct mime type   Another advantage is that Skype is not listed anymore  which happens to respond to the rfc822 mime type

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Will start the chosen Email app        param context    current component context      param emails     Emails you would like to send to      param subject    The subject that will be used in the Email app      param forceGmail True - if you want to open Gmail app  False otherwise  If the Gmail                      app is not installed on this device a chooser will be shown      public static void sendEmail Context context  String   emails  String subject  boolean forceGmail         Intent i   new Intent Intent ACTION SENDTO       i setData Uri parse  mailto          i putExtra Intent EXTRA EMAIL  emails       i putExtra Intent EXTRA SUBJECT  subject       if  forceGmail  amp  amp  isPackageInstalled context   com google android gm              i setPackage  com google android gm            i addFlags Intent FLAG ACTIVITY NEW TASK           context startActivity i         else           try               context startActivity Intent createChooser i   Send mail                  catch  ActivityNotFoundException e                Toast makeText context   No email app is installed on your device      Toast LENGTH SHORT  show                              Check if the given app is installed on this devuice         param context     current component context      param packageName The package name you would like to check      return True if this package exist  otherwise False      public static boolean isPackageInstalled  NonNull Context context   NonNull String packageName        PackageManager pm   context getPackageManager        if  pm    null            try               pm getPackageInfo packageName  0               return true            catch  PackageManager NameNotFoundException e                e printStackTrace                        return false

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The best  and easiest  way is to use an Intent   Intent i   new Intent Intent ACTION SEND   i setType  message rfc822    i putExtra Intent EXTRA EMAIL    new String    recipient example com     i putExtra Intent EXTRA SUBJECT   subject of email    i putExtra Intent EXTRA TEXT      body of email    try       startActivity Intent createChooser i   Send mail          catch  android content ActivityNotFoundException ex        Toast makeText MyActivity this   There are no email clients installed    Toast LENGTH SHORT  show        Otherwise you ll have to write your own client

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I use the below code in my apps  This shows exactly email client apps  such as Gmail       Intent contactIntent   new Intent Intent ACTION SENDTO  Uri fromParts  mailto   getString R string email to   null        contactIntent putExtra Intent EXTRA SUBJECT  getString R string email subject        startActivity Intent createChooser contactIntent  getString R string email chooser

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I used this code to send mail by launching default mail app compose section directly       Intent i   new Intent Intent ACTION SENDTO       i setType  message rfc822         i setData Uri parse  mailto          i putExtra Intent EXTRA EMAIL    new String    test gmail com         i putExtra Intent EXTRA SUBJECT   Subject        i putExtra Intent EXTRA TEXT      body of email        try           startActivity Intent createChooser i   Send mail              catch  android content ActivityNotFoundException ex            Toast makeText this   There are no email clients installed    Toast LENGTH SHORT  show

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This is how I did it  Nice and simple   String emailUrl    mailto email example com subject Subject Text amp body Body Text           Intent request   new Intent Intent ACTION VIEW           request setData Uri parse emailUrl            startActivity request

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Use  setType  message rfc822   or the chooser will show you all of the  many  applications that support the send intent

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To JUST LET EMAIL APPS to resolve your intent you need to specify ACTION SENDTO as Action and mailto as Data   private void sendEmail         Intent emailIntent   new Intent Intent ACTION SENDTO       emailIntent setData Uri parse  mailto      recipient example com          emailIntent putExtra Intent EXTRA SUBJECT   My email s subject        emailIntent putExtra Intent EXTRA TEXT   My email s body         try           startActivity Intent createChooser emailIntent   Send email using              catch  android content ActivityNotFoundException ex            Toast makeText Activity this   No email clients installed    Toast LENGTH SHORT  show

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simple try this one    public void onCreate Bundle savedInstanceState        super onCreate savedInstanceState       setContentView R layout main        buttonSend    Button  findViewById R id buttonSend       textTo    EditText  findViewById R id editTextTo       textSubject    EditText  findViewById R id editTextSubject       textMessage    EditText  findViewById R id editTextMessage        buttonSend setOnClickListener new OnClickListener               Override         public void onClick View v                 String to   textTo getText   toString                String subject   textSubject getText   toString                String message   textMessage getText   toString                 Intent email   new Intent Intent ACTION SEND               email putExtra Intent EXTRA EMAIL  new String     to                    email putExtra Intent EXTRA CC  new String    to                   email putExtra Intent EXTRA BCC  new String   to                email putExtra Intent EXTRA SUBJECT  subject               email putExtra Intent EXTRA TEXT  message                   need this to prompts email client only             email setType  message rfc822                 startActivity Intent createChooser email   Choose an Email client

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Use this for send email     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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Here is the sample working code which opens mail application in android device and auto-filled with To address and Subject in the composing mail   protected void sendEmail         Intent intent   new Intent Intent ACTION SENDTO       intent setData Uri parse  mailto feedback gmail com         intent putExtra Intent EXTRA SUBJECT   Feedback        if  intent resolveActivity getPackageManager       null            startActivity intent

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I ve been using this since long time ago and it seems good  no non-email apps showing up  Just another way to send a send email intent   Intent intent   new Intent Intent ACTION SENDTO      it s not ACTION SEND intent putExtra Intent EXTRA SUBJECT   Subject of email    intent putExtra Intent EXTRA TEXT   Body of email    intent setData Uri parse  mailto default recipient com        or just  mailto   for blank intent addFlags Intent FLAG ACTIVITY NEW TASK      this will make such that when user returns to your app  your app is displayed  instead of the email app  startActivity intent

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Other solution can be  Intent emailIntent   new Intent android content Intent ACTION SEND   emailIntent setFlags Intent FLAG ACTIVITY NEW TASK   emailIntent setType  plain text    emailIntent setClassName  com google android gm    com google android gm ComposeActivityGmail    emailIntent putExtra android content Intent EXTRA EMAIL  new String    someone gmail com     emailIntent putExtra android content Intent EXTRA SUBJECT   Yo    emailIntent putExtra android content Intent EXTRA TEXT   Hi    startActivity emailIntent     Assuming most of the android device has GMail app already installed

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This method work for me  It open Gmail app  if installed  and set mailto   public void openGmail Activity activity        Intent emailIntent   new Intent Intent ACTION VIEW       emailIntent setType  text plain        emailIntent setType  message rfc822        emailIntent setData Uri parse  mailto   activity getString R string mail to         emailIntent putExtra Intent EXTRA SUBJECT  activity getString R string app name      - info         final PackageManager pm   activity getPackageManager        final List lt ResolveInfo gt  matches   pm queryIntentActivities emailIntent  0       ResolveInfo best   null      for  final ResolveInfo info   matches          if  info activityInfo packageName endsWith   gm      info activityInfo name toLowerCase   contains  gmail                best   info      if  best    null          emailIntent setClassName best activityInfo packageName  best activityInfo name       activity startActivity emailIntent

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Try this   String mailto    mailto bob example org          cc      alice example com          amp subject     Uri encode subject          amp body     Uri encode bodyText    Intent emailIntent   new Intent Intent ACTION SENDTO   emailIntent setData Uri parse mailto     try       startActivity emailIntent     catch  ActivityNotFoundException e          TODO  Handle case where no email app is available     The above code will open the users favourite email client prefilled with the email ready to send   Source

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Intent emailIntent   new Intent Intent ACTION SENDTO  Uri fromParts               mailto   ebgsoldier gmail com   null        emailIntent putExtra Intent EXTRA SUBJECT   Forgot Password        emailIntent putExtra Intent EXTRA TEXT   Write your Pubg user name or Phone Number        startActivity Intent createChooser emailIntent   Send email         strong text

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I solved this issue with simple lines of code as the android documentation explains    https   developer android com guide components intents-common html Email   The most important is the flag  it is ACTION SENDTO  and not ACTION SEND  The other important line is   intent setData Uri parse  mailto            only email apps should handle this      By the way  if you send an empty Extra  the if   at the end won t work and the app won t launch the email client   According to Android documentation  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

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This will show you only the email clients  as well as PayPal for some unknown reason     public void composeEmail          Intent intent   new Intent Intent ACTION SENDTO       intent setData Uri parse  mailto          intent putExtra Intent EXTRA EMAIL  new String    hi example com         intent putExtra Intent EXTRA SUBJECT   Subject        intent putExtra Intent EXTRA TEXT   Body        try           startActivity Intent createChooser intent   Send mail              catch  android content ActivityNotFoundException ex            Toast makeText MainActivity this   There are no email clients installed    Toast LENGTH SHORT  show

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