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I want to send email through my application. I need to send HTML based email just through G-Mail. I found following solutions that each of them has pros and cons.
1) Using Intent (Intent.ACTION_SEND). This is very simple way and I can see my body in HTML format but the problem is when I click on "Send email" button, so many applications like Facebook and Google+ pop up which are useless and I shouldn't show it in that list. This is its code:
String html = "<!DOCTYPE html><html><body><a href=\"http://www.w3schools.com\" target=\"_blank\">Visit W3Schools.com!</a>" + "<p>If you set the target attribute to \"_blank\", the link will open in a new browser window/tab.</p></body></html>";
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
intent.setType("text/plain");
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL, new String[] {"MY EMAIL ADDRESS"});
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "subject here");
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, Html.fromHtml(html));
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(intent, "Send email..."));
2) Using Intent (Intent.ACTION_SENDTO). This way Filters useless applications and shows me just mail clients. But it doesn't display my email in HTML format in gmail client. When i send the email some clients show the body in HTML format while others doesn't identify HTML and my link behaves like plain text. This code is like:
String html = "<!DOCTYPE html><html><body><a href=\"http://www.w3schools.com\" target=\"_blank\">Visit W3Schools.com!</a>" + "<p>If you set the target attribute to \"_blank\", the link will open in a new browser window/tab.</p></body></html>";
Intent send = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SENDTO);
String uriText = "mailto:MY EMAIL ADDRESS" + "?subject=subject here" + "&body=" + html;
uriText = uriText.replace(" ", "%20");
Uri uri = Uri.parse(uriText);
send.setData(uri);
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(send, "Send mail..."));
3) Sending mail using JavaMail API which adds so much complexity to application and I didn't test it so far.
What is your suggestion? I need a way to have advantages of first and second ways. I need when user click on button it shows Gmail client and I can show him/her html content in body part of client.
any suggestion would be appreciated. Thanks
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Something about code 2 is wrong. The code is like this:
String html = "<!DOCTYPE html><html><body><a href=\"http://www.w3schools.com\" target=\"_blank\">Visit W3Schools.com!</a>" + "<p>If you set the target attribute to \"_blank\", the link will open in a new browser window/tab.</p></body></html>";
Intent send = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SENDTO);
String uriText = "mailto:MY EMAIL ADDRESS" + "?subject=subject here" + "&body=" + Html.fromHtml(html);
uriText = uriText.replace(" ", "%20");
Uri uri = Uri.parse(uriText);
send.setData(uri);
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(send, "Send mail..."));
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You can send HTML email in Gmail. But, in the past you would have to design the email, get someone to build it, and then manipulate Gmail code to add it. Now you can create and send HTML email in Gmail by dragging, dropping and a click.
Copy the entire content of a page, either with Ctrl+A (Windows) / Cmd+A (Mac) or just use a mouse or a trackpad. Then, insert it into your Gmail's compose window and send it! The email should arrive in exactly the same shape as it was last seen leaving your inbox.
Gmail uses the HTML5 DOCTYPE.
Try the following -
Intent shareIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SENDTO,Uri.parse("mailto:"));
shareIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT,Html.fromHtml(body));
shareIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, subject);
startActivity(shareIntent);
This will only present email applications.
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