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My app is really progressing now, much of it due to you guys and your willingness to help out so thanks alot. As to my problem, I want my app to email a user each day as a kind of reminder additional to notifications. However I can't find a way to do this without user intervention, I am aware I can use a send intent but I want it to be automated without the user needing to do anything other then select the option in the settings to enable email reminders. I don't actually know if this is even possible but I'm hoping that is. If it isn't maybe there's a way i can hack it together to achieve the desired outcome?

Cristian
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Crazyfool
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  • http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2020088/sending-email-in-android-using-javamail-api-without-using-the-default-android-ap – 0xf3f Feb 10 '11 at 22:43

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Doubt the app will be able to send an email itself, but what you should be doing anyway is sending this to a web server and then having a script on a server to send an email from example@yourdomain.com

Also worth noting that it would be a bit odd if the app emailed the user directly as the email would be addressed from the same person as it was sent to

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  • I agree with @olly. And if your intent is to remind them of something with your app, why not use a notification? That would give them a better chance of seeing the reminder in a timely manner than sending an email. – FoamyGuy Feb 10 '11 at 19:54
  • thanks for the reply but the idea is i'm making a task app so every day the user will be emailed a list of tasks for that day for reference when they are away from their phone – Crazyfool Feb 10 '11 at 21:40
  • Do you have any web development experience? Could be even better if you could make a site so that any user can access there tasks from anywhere. There are still people who don't use webmail – Olly Hicks Feb 11 '11 at 23:36