android send email with an image screenshot created but not saved

Question

I want to make a screenshot of the screen without saving the image, now I do this to make a screenshot:

View view = webView.getRootView();
view.setDrawingCacheEnabled(true);
Bitmap bitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(view.getDrawingCache());
view.setDrawingCacheEnabled(false);
result = new PluginResult(PluginResult.Status.OK);

And to attach the image to the email:

i.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, Uri.parse("file:///INFINITA-PL.png"));

I do not know how to do it without path.

cant you just store it in the sdcard temporarily and attach it and then delete it when you exit the app? — Manoj Kumar, Sep 18 '12 at 08:45

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:21

The EXTRA_STREAM value has to be a Uri that can be opened by the Email process. If you don't want to save it as a file and pass that along you will need to implement a ContentProvider to make it accessible. In general this is pretty messy to do: I can echo the comments in that question (I struggled for awhile to do it without hitting the file system before giving up).

You're probably better served using a File and moving on to the rest of your app.

android send email with an image screenshot created but not saved

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