Android: Is there a universal way to send the MMS on any android devices?

Question

This code works on the plain google devices with native android system. But there is no MMS app in the list on htc sense devices and I don't know about Motorola Blur etc.:

    final Intent emailIntent = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_SEND);
    emailIntent.setType("image/png");
    emailIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, uri);
    context.startActivity(Intent.createChooser(emailIntent, context.getString(R.string.send_intent_name)));

This code works on the htc sense but not from the Chooser, what I really need:

    Intent sendIntent = new Intent("android.intent.action.SEND_MSG");
    sendIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, uri);
    sendIntent.setType("image/png");
    context.startActivity(sendIntent);

But I don't know how to combine this code samples together and I don't know how to determine Htc Sense ui programmatically. Is it right way to support different type of devices?

Thank you for answers.

Answer 1

Sense, especially the older versions are a pain. There webview control also has a bunch of problems. Depending on volume of messages you might try using a webservice like amazon's simple notification service to send sms messages: http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2011/11/amazon-simple-notification-service-now-supports-sms.html Its not an android solution, but it might work.

Answer 2

You could detect whether there's a responder for the HTC Intent, and then branch:

intent = new Intent("android.intent.action.SEND_MSG");
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, uri);
intent.setType("image/png");

resolves = getActivity().getPackageManager().queryIntentActivities(intent,
        PackageManager.MATCH_DEFAULT_ONLY);

if (resolves.size() > 0) {
    // This branch is followed only for HTC 
    context.startActivity(intent);
} else {
    // Else launch the non-HTC sense Intent
    intent = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_SEND);
    intent.setType("image/png");
    intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, uri);
    context.startActivity(Intent.createChooser(intent,
            context.getString(R.string.send_intent_name)));    
}

Answer 3

You may use it like this:

Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
i.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
i.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL, new String[]{""});
i.setType("video/3gp");
i.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, Uri.parse("file://" + attachmentFilePath));
startActivity(i);