Email intent android app

Question

I want my app to be apear on email intent when I want to share something by email. I mean when any app use intent share by email only I want my app to apear on there. I want what to add in android manifest.xml.

Here is my Code:

Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
intent.setType("text/html");
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL, "emailaddress@emailaddress.com");
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "Subject");
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "I'm email body.");

startActivity(Intent.createChooser(intent, "Send Email"));

Possible duplicate of [Send Email Intent](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8701634/send-email-intent) — Satan Pandeya, Sep 20 '17 at 08:52

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 20 '17 at 08:45

Specify ACTION_SEND and ACTION_SENDTO in your activity declaration in AndroidManifest file.

   <activity
        android:name=".MainActivity"
        android:label="@string/app_name">
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN"/>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.SEND"/> 
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.SENDTO"/>

            <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER"/>
        </intent-filter>
    </activity>

not working when trying to send email chat from whatsapp ! my app doesn't appear on there — Moudou, Sep 22 '17 at 01:14

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 20 '17 at 08:51

You need to implement logic for receive data from external app, following is the simple example for handle that,

In your manifest, you need to define internet filter in which activity you want to handle a data like following way,

<activity
            android:name=".view.ActivityHandleShare"
            android:theme="@style/Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.SEND" />
                <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
                <data android:mimeType="text/plain" />
            </intent-filter>
        </activity>

And after that, you can handle data in activity like following,

 private void handleSharingData() {
        // Get intent, action and MIME type
        Intent intent = getIntent();
        String action = intent.getAction();
        String type = intent.getType();
        if (Intent.ACTION_SEND.equals(action) && type != null) {
            if ("text/plain".equals(type)) {
                handleSendText(intent); // Handle text being sent
            }
        } 
    }

Now finally when you share data with your given format you will able to open your application when share using intent(Note: I have explained example only for text/plain for image or multiple image you can take help from following url https://developer.android.com/training/sharing/receive.html)

not working when trying to send email chat from whatsapp ! my app doesn't appear on there — Moudou, Sep 22 '17 at 01:14
I think when you are try to send chat from whatsapp it will open specific email Client with package name. — Dhaval Solanki, Sep 22 '17 at 02:13

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