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CSS not working while Sending HTML email via Intent in android

I want to send Html via mail app, problem is with CSS is not working when I am using Gmail to compose/send mail
And here is the intent spinet
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "Summary");
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, Html.fromHtml("<div style='background: red;'>TEST</div>"));
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_HTML_TEXT, "<div style='background: red;'>TEST</div>");
intent.setType("text/html");
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(intent, "Send mail"));
Even I applied inline CSS its not working, Can Any help what's wrong am I doing

Gmail cuts off the head, so the CSS gets lost. For HTML Emails, you should always use inline styles.
Edit:
The general rule to use inline styles is still true, but in your specific case, it seems to be an issue with sending a HTML Mail with an Intent. I found in another answer on SO, that this may isn't possible.

How to pass hyperlink to Gmail in Intent ACTION_SEND?

May be this question is already asked or duplicate of another question, but I didn't get any solution for my search.
Here are the links which I followed for my question:
Link1 Link2
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"));

sending html mail if app allows

I want to send a html mail from my application.
I know that not all mail clients allow html tags.
But I found the constant Intent.EXTRA_HTML_TEXT in the API (http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Intent.html#EXTRA_HTML_TEXT).
My code looks like this, but it shows always just the text and not the html formatted text whatever mail client I use:
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, subject);
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "Hello World");
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_HTML_TEXT, "<html><body><h1>Hello World</h1></body><html>");
intent.setType("text/html"); // intent.setType("plain/text");
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(intent, "Choose Email Client:"));
So where is the mistake?

Sorry, not a positive answer because it doesn't seem to work, at least not in a way that's really universal and reliable. Some mailers are happy with this:
String body = "<html>something</html>";
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, Html.fromHtml(body));
Note that you don't need the new EXTRA_HTML_TEXT, it works with the older one as well. If this covers all you need then you might be OK. But if you also want to address many other possible intent receivers like Facebook, Skype or even apps like Drive or Keep, unfortunately, I couldn't find a perfect solution but I'd very much like to be proven wrong.
Basically, we have three different formats:
String body = "<html>something</html>";
Spanned html = Html.fromHtml(body);
String stripped = html.toString();
and two possible recipients:
if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.JELLY_BEAN)
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_HTML_TEXT, ???);
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, ???);
I tried all possible combinations but in any of those, there will be some well known and widely used app that doesn't want to play nicely. Either we get HTML tags embedded, or no formatting, or even no text at all...

android - Share html link to facebook, twitter or email

I am trying to share an html link to either facebook, twitter or email. Here is what I have so far, but two things are going wrong.
Intent shareIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
shareIntent.setType("text/html");
shareIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "<!DOCTYPE html><html><body>" + htmlUrl + "</body></html>");
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(shareIntent, "Share!"));
WHERE htmlUrl = "<a href=\"http://{url}/?q=" + queryString.substring(0, queryString.length() - 1) + "\" >Text to url! </a>"
First this only shows the email application in the list.
Secondly it's showing up as full text within the email and not as an HTML item.
Thank,
Dman

Your MIME type is wrong. Use this instead:
shareIntent.setType("text/plain");
If you just want to share a link and not full-blown HTML, just use the url as the Intent.EXTRA_TEXT value:
shareIntent.putExtra( Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, url );
Note that only a few apps (like GMail, Bluetooth and Dropbox) support sharing HTML. Use plain text to allow more apps to catch your Intent

You only miss a small change to your code - use Html.fromHtml to encode the string as HTML.
a more detailed example is available at this link:
http://blog.iangclifton.com/2010/05/17/sending-html-email-with-android-intent/
This will not allow you to share on Facebook since the Facebook app dows not support ACTION_SEND with text/html but this will allow you to share HTML content using the Gmail app

Share to Facebook (using this method can only share the link)
Intent facebookIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
facebookIntent.setType("text/plain");
facebookIntent.setPackage("com.facebook.katana");
facebookIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, shareUrl);
startActivity(facebookIntent);
Share to Email (using this method can change the email content to html format, but don't work using default email client, it works on gmail client.)
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
intent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, shareTitle);
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, Html.fromHtml(content of your email));
intent.setType("message/rfc822");
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(intent, "Share to Email..."));
Share to Twitter
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, your content);
intent.setType("application/twitter");
startActivity(intent);
Hope this helps.

This
shareIntent.setType("text/html");
should do for the html part. Why only the email shows up no idea, do you have other apps like facebook, twitter etc installed to handle share intents?

How to send HTML email

i found a way to send plain text email using intent:
final Intent emailIntent = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_SEND);
emailIntent.setType("text/plain");
emailIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL, new
String[]{"example#mail.com"});
emailIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "Subject");
emailIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "Test");
But I need to send HTML formatted text.
Trying to setType("text/html") doesn't work.

You can pass Spanned text in your extra. To ensure that the intent resolves only to activities that handle email (e.g. Gmail and Email apps), you can use ACTION_SENDTO with a Uri beginning with the mailto scheme. This will also work if you don't know the recipient beforehand:
final Intent shareIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SENDTO, Uri.parse("mailto:"));
shareIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "The Subject");
shareIntent.putExtra(
Intent.EXTRA_TEXT,
Html.fromHtml(new StringBuilder()
.append("<p><b>Some Content</b></p>")
.append("<small><p>More content</p></small>")
.toString())
);

Been trying to send html via gmail app for a while, so decided to leave some insight on what I found, just in case someone else is having similar issues.
Seems like no matter what I did, I couldn't get the html to have bold text in it.
Then I've tried switching to outlook client and to my surprise it was working just fine.
Html markup was also working on other older devices, but not on mine (galaxy s7 API 26), so I figured, that gmail app seems to have dropped support for html syntax that comes from intent or maybe now you're required to provide it in some very specific way which is not clearly documented.
Last gmail version that worked for me was version 6.9.25... on Nexus 5X API 25 emulator (Nougat)
And it stopped working starting version 7.5.21... On Nexus 5x API 26 emulator (Oreo)

This was very helpful to me for the HTML, but the ACTION_SENDTO didn't quite work for me as is - I got an "action not supported" message. I found a variant here which does:
http://www.coderanch.com/t/520651/Android/Mobile/no-application-perform-action-when
And here's my code which combines the two together:
String mailId="yourmail#gmail.com";
Intent emailIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SENDTO,
Uri.fromParts("mailto",mailId, null));
emailIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "Subject text here");
// you can use simple text like this
// emailIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_TEXT,"Body text here");
// or get fancy with HTML like this
emailIntent.putExtra(
Intent.EXTRA_TEXT,
Html.fromHtml(new StringBuilder()
.append("<p><b>Some Content</b></p>")
.append("<a>http://www.google.com</a>")
.append("<small><p>More content</p></small>")
.toString())
);
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(emailIntent, "Send email..."));

I haven't (yet) started Android development, but the documentation for the intent says that if you use EXTRA_TEXT, the MIME type should be text/plain. Seems like if you want to see HTML, you'd have to use EXTRA_STREAM instead...

You must to change "EXTRA_TEXT" for "EXTRA_HTML_TEXT"
https://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Intent.html#EXTRA_HTML_TEXT

What about just trying to add some html in the text area?
emailIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "<strong>Test</strong>");