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Send SQLite Database as email

In my app I want to send the history stored in my SQLite databse via email to another person,
(i.e as there is an option in 'Whatsapp' to send user chat via email, as a text file).
So here I just want an approach how to begin with this problem.
Thanks

You need to add EXTRA_STREAM to your Intent that sends e-mail:
intent.setType("application/octet-stream");
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, Uri.fromFile(databaseFile));
Where databaseFile is your database file.
Don't forget that you need to copy your file on external storage because you cannot attach file(s) stored in application-package directory.
Whole code can looks like:
Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
i.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL, new String[] {"recipient#domain.com"});
i.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "Subject");
i.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "Some message text");
i.setType("application/octet-stream");
i.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, Uri.fromFile(databaseFile));
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(i, "Send e-mail"));
If you want to put multiple attachements, you can use:
Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND_MULTIPLE);
...
ArrayList<Uri> items = new ArrayList<Uri>();
Uri uri = Uri.fromFile(new File(pathToFile));
items.add(uri);
i.putParcelableArrayListExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, items);
Note: Same will work for txt files.

Using Intent.ACTION_SEND_MULTIPLE send multiple files through Bluetooth

I have seen some other example for using intent.ACTION_SEND_MULTIPLE. But they are example
all write for e-mail. My question is that I have about ten files to send,and I use intent
to send it via Bluetooth,I can successfully send those files to other device but it will
appear the intent chooser ten times,I just want it to appear just once or I can assign the
intent using Bluetooth in advance to send files,with not pop up any chooser. Can anybody
give me some suggestion?
The following is my code:
ArrayList<File> fileList = new ArrayList<File>();
ArrayList<Uri> files = new ArrayList<Uri>();
StringTokenizer tokens = new StringTokenizer(options, ",");
String stored = "";
while (tokens.hasMoreTokens()) {
stored = tokens.nextToken();
File file = new File(stored);
fileList.add(file);
}
for(File file : fileList ) {
Uri uri = Uri.fromFile(file);
files.add(uri);
}
Intent intent = new Intent();
intent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_SEND_MULTIPLE);
intent.putParcelableArrayListExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, files);
intent.setType("image/*");
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(intent, "select some pic"));
}
Thanks in advance for seeing my question!

I finally find the answer , I add the following code and it works perfect
If anyone face the problem , maybe you can have a try!
intent.setPackage("com.android.bluetooth");
It would select Bluetooth to share files only and won't appear any
unnecessary intent chooser !

Getting multiple attachments to email in both Mail and Gmail with Android

I can get both Mail and Gmail to attach multiple csv files to an email.
When sent via Mail all the attachments are delivered.
When sent by Gmail none of the attachments are delivered.
I have read the documentation Send Binary Content. I have searched but only found a solution for Gmail that does not work with Mail. Mail seems happy with just about any approach. Gmail just doesn't want to play.
Has anyone found a solution for sending multiple attachments that works with both Mail and Gmail?
final Intent emailIntent = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_SEND_MULTIPLE);
String subject = context.getString(R.string.export_data_email_header);
emailIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, subject);
emailIntent.setType("text/csv");
ArrayList<Uri> uris = new ArrayList<Uri>();
if (diariesSelected) uris.add(Uri.fromFile(context.getFileStreamPath("diaries.csv")));
...
emailIntent.putParcelableArrayListExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, uris);
context.startActivity(emailIntent);
And the code used to create the file
FileOutputStream fos = context.openFileOutput(path, Context.MODE_WORLD_READABLE);
OutputStreamWriter writer = new OutputStreamWriter(fos);
writer.append(builder.toString());
writer.close();
fos.close();

The following code is a snippet from one of my apps. As far as I remember, it works with GMail and Mail (Can't verify it at the moment.). It looks basically like your solution, but with a few little differences. Maybe one of them is what you are looking for. :)
Intent emailIntent = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_SEND_MULTIPLE);
emailIntent.setType("text/plain");
emailIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL, new String[] { "address#mail.com" });
emailIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "The subject");
emailIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "The actual message");
ArrayList<Uri> attachmentUris = new ArrayList<Uri>();
for (File attachment : attachments) {
attachmentUris.add(Uri.fromFile(attachment));
}
emailIntent.putParcelableArrayListExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, attachmentUris);
startActivity(emailIntent);

Here you can get detail information https://stackoverflow.com/a/18225100/942224
by using below code i am attaching image file in gmail or Mail.... hope it will help you
Intent ei = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND_MULTIPLE);
ei.setType("plain/text");
ei.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL, new String[] {"email id"});
ei.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "That one works");
ArrayList<String> fileList = new ArrayList<String>();
fileList.add(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory()+"/foldername/certi/qualifications.jpg");
fileList.add(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory()+"/foldername/certi/certificate.jpg");
fileList.add(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory()+"/foldername/Aa.pdf");
ArrayList<Uri> uris = new ArrayList<Uri>();
//convert from paths to Android friendly Parcelable Uri's
for (int i=0;i<fileList.size();i++)
{
File fileIn = new File(fileList.get(i));
Uri u = Uri.fromFile(fileIn);
uris.add(u);
}
ei.putParcelableArrayListExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, uris);
startActivityForResult(Intent.createChooser(ei, "Sending multiple attachment"), 12345);

Android Email Multiple Attachment issue on HTC Thunderbolt

I have a weird situation here.
I am trying to send emails with multiple attachments using the following piece of code.
Intent emailIntent = new Intent( android.content.Intent.ACTION_SEND_MULTIPLE );
// emailIntent.setType( "plain/text" );
emailIntent.setType( "application/octet-stream" );
...
....
emailIntent.putParcelableArrayListExtra( Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, uris );
This works fine and the implicit intent mechanism shows up a lot of options like Gmail, Skype, Messaging etc.
The problem is that the default Mail client does not show up on HTC Thunderbolt ( but works on other devices including HTC Incredible S ).
If I try to send a single attachment using Intent.ACTION_SEND, the default mail client shows up. I have tried setting content type to text/plain, appliation/octet-stream, message/rfc282 etc but none works.
What am I missing here?

I had the same issue, I Fixed it with using http Mime Library for multipart form entity.
here is the link to the file.
http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-4.3.x/httpmime/apidocs/org/apache/http/entity/mime/HttpMultipart.html

Sounds like a bug in the Thunderbolt's version of Sense. Custom UIs for the win, am I right?
Anyway, I would look up what app actually does handle emails on the thunderbolt and put an if-statement to detect if the device is a thunderbolt. If it is, set the Intent's target class to whatever that is. If it's not, do what you're already doing.

This works great for me, be sure to specify the the message type, that is how the android os knows which broadcast to use.
String email = "test#email.com";
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND_MULTIPLE);
intent.setType("message/rfc822");
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL, new String[] {email}); // could have multiple address
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "Enter your subject here");
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "message text as needed");
ArrayList<Uri> arrayUri = new ArrayList<Uri>();
arrayUri.add(Uri.parse("file://" + paths[0]));
arrayUri.add(Uri.parse("file://" + paths[1]));
intent.putParcelableArrayListExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, arrayUri);
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(intent, "Any title to show on chooser"));

Try this. I think it will work.
final Intent emailIntent = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_SEND_MULTIPLE);
emailIntent.setType("plain/text");
ArrayList<Uri> uris = new ArrayList<Uri>();
String[] filePaths = new String[] {image1 Path,image2 path};
for (String file : filePaths) {
File fileIn = new File(file);
Uri u = Uri.fromFile(fileIn);
uris.add(u);
}
if ( !(app_preferences.getString("email", "") == null || app_preferences.getString("email", "").equals(""))) {
emailIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL, new String[] {app_preferences.getString("email", "")});
}
emailIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "Subject name");
emailIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "Please find the attachment.");
emailIntent.putParcelableArrayListExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, uris);
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(emailIntent, "Email:"));

Android multiple email attachments using Intent

I've been working on Android program to send email with an attachment (image file, audio file, etc) using Intent with ACTION_SEND. The program is working when email has a single attachment. I used Intent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, uri) to attach the designated image file to the mail and it is working fine, the mail can be delivered through the Gmail. However, when I tried to have multiple images attached to the same mail by calling Intent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, uri) multiple times, it failed to work. None of the attachment show up in the email.
I searched the SDK documentation and Android programming user group about email attachment but cannot find any related info. However, I've discovered that there's another intent constant ACTION_SEND_MULTIPLE (available since API level 4) which might meet my requirement. Based on SDK documentation, it simply states that it deliver multiple data to someone else, it works like ACTION_SEND, except the data is multiple. But I still could not figure out the correct usage for this command. I tried to declare intent with ACTION_SEND_MULTIPLE, then call putExtra(EXTRA_STREAM, uri) multiple times to attach multiple images, but I got the same erroneous result just like before, none of the attachment show up in the email.
Has anyone tried with ACTION_SEND_MULTIPLE and got it working with multiple email attachment?

Here is the code you need to create an emailIntent that contains multiple attachments.
public static void email(Context context, String emailTo, String emailCC,
String subject, String emailText, List<String> filePaths)
{
//need to "send multiple" to get more than one attachment
final Intent emailIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND_MULTIPLE);
emailIntent.setType("text/plain");
emailIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL,
new String[]{emailTo});
emailIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_CC,
new String[]{emailCC});
emailIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, subject);
emailIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, emailText);
//has to be an ArrayList
ArrayList<Uri> uris = new ArrayList<Uri>();
//convert from paths to Android friendly Parcelable Uri's
for (String file : filePaths)
{
File fileIn = new File(file);
Uri u = Uri.fromFile(fileIn);
uris.add(u);
}
emailIntent.putParcelableArrayListExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, uris);
context.startActivity(Intent.createChooser(emailIntent, "Send mail..."));
}

ACTION_SEND_MULTIPLE should be the action
and then emailIntent.setType("text/plain");
followed by:
ArrayList<Uri> uris = new ArrayList<Uri>();
String[] filePaths = new String[] {"sdcard/sample.png", "sdcard/sample.png"};
for (String file : filePaths)
{
File fileIn = new File(file);
Uri u = Uri.fromFile(fileIn);
uris.add(u);
}
emailIntent.putParcelableArrayListExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, uris);
startActivity(emailIntent);
This works for me.

Although this is an old thread, but as it is shown on top on google searches i want to add a small hint to make it complete, hence I stumpled upon it.
It is necessary to make the attached files readable for the mail activity, otherwise they will not be attached. So you have to call somewhere
fileIn.setReadable(true, false)

Here I found great example http://www.blackmoonit.com/2010/02/filebrowser-send-receive-intents/
you must use
final Intent aIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND_MULTIPLE);
aIntent.putParcelableArrayListExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM,theUris);
aIntent.setType(theOverallMIMEtype);

For multiple attachments use PutParcelableArrayListExtra(Intent.ExtraStream, uris)where uris variable is a List<IParcelable>().
Here's an example:
var email = new Intent(Intent.ActionSendMultiple);
email.SetType("text/plain");
email.PutExtra(Intent.ExtraEmail, new string[]{emailTo});
email.PutExtra(Intent.ExtraCc, new string[]{emailCC});
var uris = new List<IParcelable>();
filePaths.ForEach(file=> {
var fileIn = new File(file);
var uri = Android.Net.Uri.FromFile(fileIn);
uris.Add(uri);
});
email.PutParcelableArrayListExtra(Intent.ExtraStream, uris);
context.StartActivity(Intent.CreateChooser(email, "Send mail..."));
Hope this helps ;)