How to add .pdf extension when sending an attachment from Android? - android

I am trying to send a pdf as an attachment from Android. Here is the code:
String[] mailto = {"me#gmail.com"};
Uri uri = Uri.parse("android.resource://com.mywebsite.sendemail/raw/mypdf");
Intent emailIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
emailIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL, mailto);
emailIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "My Subject");
emailIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "My Body");
emailIntent.setType("application/pdf");
emailIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, uri);
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(emailIntent, "Send email using:"));
Now this works but the problem is that the attachment is called mypdf instead of mypdf.pdf. I cannot figure out how to send it with it's extension... That's what I need help with. Thanks.


I am unconvinced what you want will be possible, since you are pulling the PDF from a resource. If you copy the PDF to a local file (with the correct extension) and send that, you should get the extension in the resulting message. But straight out of the resource...I suspect there's no way to add the extension.


When ever I attempt to use the .putExtra methodology it always crashes my application with a "Force Close" message. If I use something like:
String mtUri = "mailto:someone#gmail.com?subject=Some Subject&body=Some text&";
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SENDTO, Uri.parse(mtUri));
startActivity(intent);
It seems to work fine. I do still have the problem of attaching a file and could use some help figurint out the "attachment=file:///..." syntax.
Thanks,

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Send text with ACTION_SEND_MULTIPLE

I am developing an Android application in which I am sending multiple attachments to email client application.
To send multiple attachments I am using ACTION_SEND_MULTIPLE intent.
Code snippet:
Intent emailIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND_MULTIPLE);
emailIntent.setData(Uri.parse("mailto:"));
emailIntent.setType("text/plain");
emailIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL, TO);
emailIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "Test"); // email subject
ArrayList<CharSequence> msg = new ArrayList<CharSequence>();
msg.add(mail_body); // email body
emailIntent.putCharSequenceArrayListExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, msg);
ArrayList<Uri> uris = new ArrayList<Uri>(); //attachments
uris.add(Uri.fromFile(logFile));
uris.add(Uri.fromFile(oldLogFile));
emailIntent.putParcelableArrayListExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, uris);
this.startActivityForResult(Intent.createChooser(emailIntent, "Send mail..."), ErrorCodes.MAIL_ACTIVITY);
Output of the above code:
In the Gmail application, the attachments are present but email body is missing.
How can I fix this issue? I would appreciate any suggestions and thought on this topic.

First, ACTION_SEND_MULTIPLE does not use a Uri, as you have with your setData() call.
Second, ACTION_SEND_MULTIPLE uses either EXTRA_TEXT or EXTRA_STREAM, not both. See the documentation. This is the most likely source of your difficulty — you are trying to do something that is not documented to work.
Third, Uri.fromFile() will not work on Android 7.0+, if your app has a targetSdkVersion of 24 or higher. You will need to use FileProvider or some similar solution.

Sending HTML E-mails with Attachment for Android

I'm trying to use this solution but Eclipse still cant resolve "Attachment" and "DataService".
I've imported mail.jar and activation.jar, what could I be doing wrong? I've tried countless other sending email solutions on SO/Google but I couldn't get any of them to work with my attachment and send HTML emails.
Any help would be appreciated.

If you need to construct email to be sent by user manually (open his mail program with new email and attachment) you can use this code:
Intent emailIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
emailIntent.setData(Uri.parse("mailto:" ));
emailIntent.setType("message/rfc822");
emailIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "SUBJECT");
emailIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "MESSAGE");
File toAttach = new File("/path/to/your/file");
Uri uri = Uri.fromFile(toAttach);
emailIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, uri);
startActivity(emailIntent);

I used this tutorial and changed
messageBodyPart.setText(_body);
to
messageBodyPart.setContent(_body, "text/html");

Image Email Attachment in Android doesn't open in right format

I've been trying since 2 hours, to find the code to email an image in Android. At least i was successful, but still have a problem. When i email the image, it opens as text file, and not as jpeg. I also used MIME type (image/jpeg), but in vain. Please help me with this.
Intent emailIntent = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_SEND);
emailIntent.setType("image/jpg");
emailIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT,e2.getText().toString());
emailIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL,new String[]{e1.getText().toString()});
emailIntent.setType("image/jpg");
Uri path = Uri.parse("android.resource://com.mypackage.name/drawable/" + filename);
emailIntent.setType("image/jpg");
emailIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, path);
emailIntent.setType("image/jpeg");
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(emailIntent, "Send Email"));
Any help will be appreciated.
Thank you!

For those who need help, just copy the image to sdcard, and then attach! It works!

attach picture to email

Anyone knows how to attach images with
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SENDTO);
I know how to do it with Intent.ACTION_SEND, but i would like to use SENDTO to remove the Bluetooth option for the user.
What i have works fine when not attaching the picture but when i use
intent.setData(pictureUri);
It tells me that there isn't any application to do the job.
Thank you for your help.
EDIT
Inserted the code that I have now. It "works fine" except that the image isn't getting attached.
Code
intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SENDTO);
intent.setType("text/html");
Uri uri = Uri.parse("mailto:?");
intent.setData(uri);
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, picture);
intent.putExtra("subject", subject );
context.startActivity(Intent.createChooser(intent, "Share Via:"));
The picture is a Uri for a picture on the phone.
Anyone knows what can be the problem?

Try:
i.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, Uri.fromFile(pic));

According to the API docs, SENDTO expects a recipient in the data field, not an attachment.
By saying intent.setData(pictureUri), you're basically trying to send a message to the picture. See here.
SEND accepts attachments via extras, so you could try the same for SENDTO.
For example:
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, pictureUri);

Trying to attach a file from SD Card to email

I am trying to launch an Intent to send an email. All of that works, but when I try to actually send the email a couple 'weird' things happen.
here is code
Intent sendIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
sendIntent.setType("image/jpeg");
sendIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "Photo");
sendIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, Uri.parse("file://sdcard/dcim/Camera/filename.jpg"));
sendIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "Enjoy the photo");
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(sendIntent, "Email:"));
So if I launch using the Gmail menu context It shows the attachment, lets me type who the email is to, and edit the body & subject. No big deal. I hit send, and it sends. The only thing is the attachment does NOT get sent.
So. I figured, why not try it w/ the Email menu context (for my backup email account on my phone). It shows the attachment, but no text at all in the body or subject. When I send it, the attachment sends correctly. That would lead me to believe something is quite wrong. Do I need a new permission in the Manifest launch an intent to send email w/ attachment? What am I doing wrong?

Also getting the same problem
Code:
Intent emailIntent = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_SEND);
emailIntent.setType("image/jpeg");
emailIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL, new String[]
{"me#gmail.com"});
emailIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT,
"Test Subject");
emailIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_TEXT,
"go on read the emails");
Log.v(getClass().getSimpleName(), "sPhotoUri=" + Uri.parse("file:/"+ sPhotoFileName));
emailIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, Uri.parse("file:/"+ sPhotoFileName));
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(emailIntent, "Send mail..."));
From adb logcat:
V/DumbDumpersMain( 3972): sPhotoUri=file://sdcard/DumbDumpers/DumbDumper.jpg
I/ActivityManager( 56): Starting activity: Intent { action=android.intent.action.CHOOSER comp={android/com.android.internal.app.ChooserActivity} (has extras) }
I/ActivityManager( 56): Starting activity: Intent { action=android.intent.action.SEND type=jpeg/image flags=0x3000000 comp={com.google.android.gm/com.google.android.gm.ComposeActivityGmail} (has extras) }
I/ActivityManager( 56): Starting activity: Intent { action=android.intent.action.SEND type=jpeg/image flags=0x2800000 comp={com.google.android.gm/com.google.android.gm.ComposeActivity} (has extras) }
D/gmail-ls( 120): MailProvider.query: content://gmail-ls/labels/me#gmail.com(null, null)
D/Gmail ( 2507): URI FOUND:file://sdcard/DumbDumpers/DumbDumper.jpg
Looks like the email provider is attaching a 0 length file. When I check the filesystem the file is there and correct. The code which creates the image file is well finished prior to the attempt to email it.
Anyone fixed this without magic reboots (I've already tried that)?
Update
Path for me should have been
file:///sdcard/DumbDumpers/DumbDumper.jpg
you need the extra / as this points to the root directory, i.e.:
file:// + /sdcard/DumbDumpers/DumbDumper.jpg
combined as
file:///sdcard/DumbDumpers/DumbDumper.jpg
In the above snippet you need:
emailIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, Uri.parse("file://"+ sPhotoFileName));

Just a little remark from my side. I've been having the same issues with GMail, but somehow it seems to work when I store the file in question on the SD card first and retrieve it from there, rather than from the assets. So my code is the following:
Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
i.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "Title");
i.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "Content");
i.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, uri);
i.setType("text/plain");
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(i, "Send mail"));
and here,
uri = Uri.fromFile(new File(context.getFilesDir(), FILENAME));
does not work, whereas
uri = Uri.fromFile(new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory(), FILENAME));
does.
Regards,
Michael

instead of "Uri.parse" use "Uri.fromFile(new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory(),"file name"))"
Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory() - path to SDcard or any other external storage

It appears that this is actually correct, not sure what was happening, but after a reboot it started working :/

Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
i.setType("message/rfc822");
i.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL , new String[]{"example#mail.com"});
i.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "Data from app");
i.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT , "experience number x");
i.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
Uri uri = Uri.fromFile(new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory(), "filename.txt"));
i.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, uri);
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(i, "Send email..."));

I got the same problem and looked everywhere for a solution. Finally I solved it by finding an open source app that worked out of the box and looked at how they did it. The code is rather long so I won't quote it here but post a link. Look at the sendEmail function in line 449
http://rehearsalassist.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/rehearsalassist/android/trunk/src/urbanstew/RehearsalAssistant/SessionPlayback.java?revision=94&view=markup
I refactored my code to be similar, and now it works. I hope this will help others in the same situation.

From RFC 1738 section 3.10:
A file URL takes the form:
file://<host>/<path>
where host is the fully qualified domain name of the system on
which the path is accessible, and path is a hierarchical
directory path of the form directory/directory/.../name.
So it's file:///path/from/root just like http://host/path/from/root because there's an implicit 'localhost' between the second and third slash. But as mentioned above, use Uri.FromFile() to build it.

I had the same symptoms. In my case it was because I was initially saving the attachment with the permissions MODE_PRIVATE. As soon as I changed it to MODE_WORLD_READABLE it seems GMail was then able to access the file and send the attachment properly.
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It's work perfectly for me:
On this solution the Nicolas create one copy inside Cache folder and here gmail intent has access!
http://stephendnicholas.com/archives/974

public void sendMail(String path) {
Intent emailIntent = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_SEND);
emailIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL,
new String[] {AppConstant.server_mail});
emailIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT,
"IBPS ERROR Mail");
emailIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_TEXT,
"This is an autogenerated mail from IBPS app");
emailIntent.setType("image/png");
Uri myUri = Uri.parse("file://" + path);
emailIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, myUri);
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(emailIntent, "Send mail..."));
}

Also try adding Intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_GRANT_READ_URI_PERMISSION); This helped with my issue.

I have got solution on this after 4 days, Please note following points while giving path to File class in Android(Java):
1) Use path for internal storage String path="/storage/sdcard0/myfile.txt";
2) path="/storage/sdcard1/myfile.txt";
3) mention permissions in Manifest file.
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />
4) First check file length for confirmation.
5) Check paths in ES File Explorer regarding sdcard0 & sdcard1 is this same or else......
e.g.
File file=new File(path);
long=file.length();//in Bytes

Send an email with an attachment: (By docs)
Intent emailIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
emailIntent.setType(HTTP.PLAIN_TEXT_TYPE);
emailIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL, new String[] {"jon#example.com"});
emailIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "Email subject");
emailIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "Email message text");
emailIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM,
Uri.parse("content://path/to/email/attachment"));
// You can also attach multiple items by passing an ArrayList of Uris

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