Opening an email client on clicking a button

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I am designing an app in which i need to open an email client on clicking a button. The email client should be opened with a pre-defined subject and 'to' address. Is there a way to attain this? Please provide me the solution and a code example if possible...

Possible duplicate of [How to open Email program via Intents (but only an Email program)](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3312438/how-to-open-email-program-via-intents-but-only-an-email-program) — mixel, May 16 '16 at 10:19
Please have a look at [this](https://stackoverflow.com/a/54602382/413306) answer to get ONLY email clients — Ayyappa, Feb 09 '19 at 01:41

yanchenko · Accepted Answer · 2013-08-14T20:19:19.560

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Goes like this:

Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
intent.setType("plain/text");
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL, new String[] { "some@email.address" });
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "subject");
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "mail body");
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(intent, ""));

Alternatively, you could use IntentFactory.getSendEmailIntent(String mailTo, String mailCC, String subject, CharSequence body, File attachment).

edited Aug 14 '13 at 20:19

answered Apr 29 '10 at 04:55

yanchenko

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When i click the button its displaying that NO APPLCATIONS CAN PERFORM THIS ACTION.... Whats the solution??? – Rahul Kalidindi Apr 29 '10 at 07:01
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This does not work reliably today - it will allow user to choose Facebook Messenger for example, instead of GMail. Please see: https://stackoverflow.com/a/15022153/1735603 (accepted answer in thread is wrong as well, beware) – Firzen Jun 03 '19 at 14:59
This solution did not work for me in 2020 DEC. My working solution from official doc: https://stackoverflow.com/a/62877003/2155858 – Rajeev Jayaswal Dec 19 '20 at 13:54

mixel · Answer 2 · 2020-06-06T08:08:14.480

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To show only email clients use this code:

Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
Uri data = Uri.parse("mailto:recipient@example.com?subject=" + Uri.encode(subject) + "&body=" + Uri.encode(body));
intent.setData(data);
startActivity(intent);

If you already chose default email client then it will launch it. Otherwise it will show a list of available email clients.

edited Jun 06 '20 at 08:08

answered May 16 '16 at 10:18

mixel

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this works perfectly...i am astonished why it worked without permissions ? – anshulkatta Aug 20 '17 at 07:33
@anshulkatta Because it does not perform any action requiring permissions. It just opens activity that can send email. – mixel Aug 20 '17 at 14:45
How do you encode the subject and body in case they contain characters that would break things? – Tyler Jun 05 '20 at 21:08
@mixel After some testing, you need to do `URLEncoder.encode().replace("+", "%20")` otherwise the email will have pluses instead of spaces. – Tyler Jun 09 '20 at 18:57
This is working fine. – Salman Hameed May 12 '23 at 05:52

score 7 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 08 '19 at 10:54

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If you have a e-mail address on screen, you can just use in your xml, like this:

android:autoLink="email"

answered Apr 08 '19 at 10:54

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score 5 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 13 '20 at 13:34

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Ok - now the above answer no longer works for me in year 2020. I found something mentioned on google official developer sites which worked for me.

 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);
    }

answered Jul 13 '20 at 13:34

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Not working for me on Android 10. `EXTRA_SUBJECT` and `EXTRA_TEXT` are being ignored – Mark Aug 26 '21 at 10:36
For Android 10 and higher we need to add query in manifest to make `resolveActivity` work as said in answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/65166064/10413998 – remain4life Aug 18 '22 at 17:15

score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Jun 11 '20 at 12:33

Prefer to use constants if available like for intent.type ClipDescription.MIMETYPE_TEXT_PLAIN

Kotlin:

val intent = Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND)
intent.type = ClipDescription.MIMETYPE_TEXT_PLAIN
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL, arrayOf("emailId 1", "emailId 2"))
intent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT,"Subject for email")
intent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "Description for email")
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(intent,"Send Email"))

score 0 · Answer 6 · edited Oct 29 '12 at 09:32

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You can open email client on emulator by configuring your email address with email inbuild with email. Then when call the intent will open and send mail.

edited Oct 29 '12 at 09:32

Stephan

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answered Apr 25 '12 at 12:44

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