problem sending an email with an attachment programmatically

Asked 8/8, 2009 at 4:34 Answered 8/4, 2012 at 6:0

i`m trying to send an email using native email client on android phone.

I have tried following ways to add an attachment to the mail...

method--1

Intent sendIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
sendIntent.setType("image/jpeg");
sendIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, Uri.parse("file://sdcard/abc.jpg"));

method 2

Sending the image as body content---

sendIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "<HTML><BODY><b><IMG**SRC=
\"data:image/jpeg;base64," + <imagepath> + "\"**alt = \"**pleaseview this
image\"/></b></BODY></HTML>");

i can successfully attach the image manually but when i tried to attach and send it programmatically the mail was sent without attachement.

Please let me know if there is a way to send an attachment programmatically by using email client

Ling answered 8/8, 2009 at 4:34 Comment(1)

check this : android-ios-tutorials.com/207/… – Eidetic 16/9, 2014 at 17:20

I think your problem is that you are not putting right the file path.

The following works for me:

Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
i.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
i.setType("image/jpg");
i.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, Uri.parse("file:///sdcard/Pictures/
image.jpg"));
startActivity(i);

Note that file path has 3 "/", the first two for the "file://" header, the other because sdcard dir is inside the root of the filesystem, which is "/" in linux.

Milomilon answered 8/8, 2009 at 5:1 Comment(1)

this does not solve the problem with embedding the image inside the html email, does it? – Plunge 10/8, 2011 at 22:40

I believe that the Uri you are using is incorrect. I tried file:///mnt/sdcard/ and worked quite fine.

Swipple answered 8/4, 2012 at 6:0 Comment(0)

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