May be this question is already asked or duplicate of another question, but I didn't get any solution for my search.
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Actually, my question is related to sharing HTML text in android default intent with an ACTION_SEND. When I am trying to create a hyperlink to URL with different value then it is showing a simple text of value. That is not clickable as a link.
Here is how I am doing:
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
intent.setType("text/html");
String link = "https://www.android.com/";
String linkValue = "Click Me";
String body1 = "" + link+ "";//I don't want this
String body2 = "" + linkValue + "";//This is not working
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, Html.fromHtml(body2));
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(intent, "Share With"));
For body2:
When I share the text using Gmail then in email hyperlinked text will come as a normal text. Simply "Click Me". I checked it on desktop browser also. But there also it is same. I checked this text in Inspect Element(You can get Inspect Element of a browser page like: Right click on browser page>> In popup window click at the bottom Inspect OR refer Inspect Element) format and found there was no tag for hyperlink text.
For body1:
It's working and I got the URL as a hyperlink in the email, but I got the URL as a hyperlink I don't want to show the same URL in email rather than there should be some hint value as body2 format. This format can be achieved by direct URL sharing in the body no need of tag.
So finally my search is, Is there any way in Android for sharing hyperlink text with different hint value rather than as of link(URL).
I suggest you use a string resource instead of a Java string, it's generally and good practice and that way you won't have to escape the " either. And with the HTML data you'll have to wrap it in CDATA.
XML:
<string name="readyandroid"><![CDATA[readyandroid]]></string>
in Java, replace body2 with:
String body2 = getString(R.string.readyandroid);
Then try passing it to the intent and sending it in an email, it should be a proper hyperlink as you would like it to be.
What you do in body is perfectly correct.
But Gmail reads the extra android.intent.extra.TEXTas a string.
You are in fact making a feature request / reporting a bug.
android:autoLink="web|email"
Please add this code in textview xml. It will directly goes gmail link
I don't think you can do using email Intent. Send email without intent Make email client for sending email. That will support HTML tag.
plz refer
http://www.jondev.net/articles/Sending_Emails_without_User_Intervention_%28no_Intents%29_in_Android
After you put your String to extra, it lose it attributes as Spanned. If you would send it as html, it can be resolved by some applications and shown as you want. Generally, you just put a plain text into the Bundle of your Intent, and each application interprets it as it wish, so there is no solution to send it as html and force applications to show it as html.
On the other hand, if you know which applications you're going to use via share, you can read its documentation and check if it allows to send hyperlinks via ACTION_SEND intent.
You can tell a receiver that a type of your text by intent.setType("text/html"), maybe some applications behavior depends on it.
Yes, I achieved this issue solution. Thanks, #Faraz.
This is my answer code, as I created tag string in string.xml
<string name="link_to_google_map"><![CDATA[LINK TO GOOGLE MAP]]></string>
And my code is like this, which works perfectly for sharing using tag in android:
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
intent.setType("text/html");
String shareText = "Thank you for using the ReadyAndroid App" + "<br />" + "Name : " + "ReadyAndroid";
shareText += "<br />" + "Address : " + "https://readyandroid.wordpress.com/ <br />Mandawa, Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan 333704";
String mapLocation = String.format(getString(R.string.link_to_google_map), 28.0500, 75.1487);
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, Html.fromHtml(shareText+mapLocation));
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(intent, "Share with"));
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I've been searching for hours trying to get my share Intent to be a hyperlink to a specific URL. I saw a lot of answers for this for a TextView but none for a sharing intent and I couldn't figure out how to get the textView answers applied to this.
Basically I want this string
<string name="link">EatingOut</string>
to work with
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_restaurant);
share = getString(R.string.link);
}
private void setShareIntent() {
if (mShareActionProvider != null) {
Intent shareIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
shareIntent.setType("text/plain");
shareIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "Share");
shareIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "Eating at "+ title.getText() + " #" + share );
mShareActionProvider.setShareIntent(shareIntent);
}
}
The problem is when I share it, there is no hyperlink to the "share" part.
I have tried many different suggestions I read here but like I said most were for textViews
edit: tried the TextUtils.concat but still no hyperlink with and without "#"
CharSequence socialShare = TextUtils.concat("Eating at ", title.getText(), " #", share);
Intent shareIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
shareIntent.setType("text/plain");
shareIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "Share");
shareIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, socialShare );
The problem is when I share it, there is no hyperlink to the "share" part.
You have a few problems here.
First, I am not aware that <a> is a valid HTML-style tag that you can use in a string resource.
Second, getString() will remove that HTML-style markup, even if it exists.
Third, you are setting the MIME type of your ACTION_SEND Intent to text/plain, and HTML is a different MIME type.
Given all that, you need to decide whether you are going to share plain text with a URL just in the text (relying upon the "share" recipient to identify the URL and make it useful to the user, if applicable), or if you are going to share HTML (and hope that the "share" recipient doesn't screw it up too bad).
If you are going to share plain text, then change your string resource to:
<string name="link">https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?blahblah</string>
You will also want to either get rid of the # in your concatenated string, or add a space after it, as putting # right before the URL may confuse other apps, causing them to not recognize the URL as being a URL.
If you are going to share HTML, you need to change setType() to pass text/html, then set EXTRA_TEXT to be either an HTML-formatted string or a Spanned object (e.g., created via SpannableStringBuilder).
i have this code which prefill an email and throw an intent:
Intent email_intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND_MULTIPLE);
email_intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT,
"iTempco"+getString(R.string.superficie_scambio));
email_intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT,{{here_the_html_code}});
email_intent.setType("text/html");
startActivity(email_intent);
where you see {{here_the_html_code}} i have a string with html code (working perfectly).
the problem is that, when the activity is thrown, i see the html code (the source) in the text area of the client, not the "converted one"
how can i?
thanks.
I had the same problem, but couldnt solve it.
Most of the default email client won't handle the html tags.
The best workaround i found is sending the html as a attachement.
check my question about this:
Is it possible to send html with the mail intent?
Thanks in advance for your help.
I am developing an Android App that, as part of its core functionality, needs to send emails between users (peer-to-peer emails, not spam). These emails need to contain a link that will open the Android App upon a user-click
The problem I am having is: when I send these emails to gmail acounts, links appear as normal text rather than as links.
Here is my code
private void sendEmail(String recepientName, String recipientEmail) {
Intent emailIntent = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_SEND);
String aEmailList[] = { recipientEmail };
emailIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL, aEmailList);
emailIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "My Title");
emailIntent.setType("text/html");
emailIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, Html.fromHtml(
"<!DOCTYPE html><html><body>" +
"<br>Dear " + recepientName + ",<br>" +
"Please <font>click here</font></body></html>"));
startActivityForResult(emailIntent, EMAIL_REQUEST);
}
What should I do to make these link work in received emailsin gmail ?
Again Thanks
What I discovered was that somehow (probably with great talent) I got into Google's black list.
this means that Google stripped the link out of my code and the users saw it as regular text
HERE IS THE REASONING:
My link looked like this: myAppName://parameter1/parameter2/Parameter3
The prefix ("myAppName://") allows Android to identify my App and launch it as you click on the link.
HOWEVER:
When this link was sent to a gmail account, Google's servers were able to identify that this was an invalid link (pretty cool that they check that ha!!) and they stripped the link out.
The solution was to use a real URL for App identification and Launch:
Something like: http://myhost.com/parameter1/parameter2/Parameter3
Hope that helps
android:scheme="http" and the appropriate android:host
I am sending emails from my application.
I want to know if there is a way to define templates for eg :
subject: Regarding {{title}}
Body: You may be interested in the product {{title}} \b {{desc}}
I would like to define this templates in some resource file.
Thanks for your help and time.
Just construct mailto URL in accordance with RFC-2368, which includes subject and other fields. So in the end you'll have URI which can be used to start email sender activity:
Uri uri=Uri.parse("mailto:example#example.com?subject=Here goes test message");
intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SENDTO, uri);
activity.startActivity(intent);
Futhero you can programmatically construct mailto URL as you want
You can put in strings.xml w/ string format character like %d %s %f..., and make use of String.format().
It's nice if others have better ideas :)
I want compile an email with HTML content which users can see before send it.
I use an
Intent email = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
But I cannot see an HTML interpreted, see the image below:
There is a way to show an HTML interpreted email content?
Thanks a lot
you have to set type for intent :see this method:http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Intent.html#setType%28java.lang.String%29
you ahve to add also this line for it shows like html for ur data:
emailIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, Html.fromHtml(body));**strong text**