How to send HTML email

Question

i found a way to send plain text email using intent:

final Intent emailIntent = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_SEND); emailIntent.setType("text/plain");  emailIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL, new      String[]{"[email protected]"});  emailIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "Subject");  emailIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "Test"); 

But I need to send HTML formatted text.
Trying to setType("text/html") doesn't work.

Answer 1

You can pass Spanned text in your extra. To ensure that the intent resolves only to activities that handle email (e.g. Gmail and Email apps), you can use ACTION_SENDTO with a Uri beginning with the mailto scheme. This will also work if you don't know the recipient beforehand:

final Intent shareIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SENDTO, Uri.parse("mailto:")); shareIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "The Subject"); shareIntent.putExtra( Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, Html.fromHtml(new StringBuilder()     .append("<p><b>Some Content</b></p>")     .append("<small><p>More content</p></small>")     .toString()) ); 

Answer 2

This was very helpful to me for the HTML, but the ACTION_SENDTO didn't quite work for me as is - I got an "action not supported" message. I found a variant here which does:

http://www.coderanch.com/t/520651/Android/Mobile/no-application-perform-action-when

And here's my code which combines the two together:

String mailId="[email protected]"; Intent emailIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SENDTO,                                  Uri.fromParts("mailto",mailId, null));  emailIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "Subject text here");  // you can use simple text like this // emailIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_TEXT,"Body text here");  // or get fancy with HTML like this emailIntent.putExtra(          Intent.EXTRA_TEXT,          Html.fromHtml(new StringBuilder()              .append("<p><b>Some Content</b></p>")              .append("<a>http://www.google.com</a>")              .append("<small><p>More content</p></small>")              .toString())          ); startActivity(Intent.createChooser(emailIntent, "Send email..."));