Comments on: Sending HTML Email With Android Intent

By: Janice

Janice — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 06:02:26 +0000

Can someone post a screen shot of the open email form… with the html code in it… right before you hit SEND.

I’ve tried a lot of code… including the code on this site. Never sends any html… and the html doesn’t even make it into the mail form.

By: Gaurav Mehta

Gaurav Mehta — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:00:03 +0000

hi Praveena,

I am facing the same problem which you were discussing above. I want to show a formated text in email intent which contain bullets and tables Please help me out i am searching the solution for last 5 days !!!!!!!!!

By: Ian G. Clifton

Ian G. Clifton — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 04:55:24 +0000

Unfortunately, I don’t know of any way to accomplish that using the default mail client.

By: Dattatraya

Dattatraya — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:28:00 +0000

Thanks, It is really a good tutorial. I have one query, when i am calling the emailIntent it go to the send mail screen, but if i click on cancel button(on send mail screen) the it destroy this screen and come back to previous screen. In this case i want to get the notification whether i send the mail or cancel to send mail or move the mail in draft.
Is there any way to get this notification.

By: Ian G. Clifton

Ian G. Clifton — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 18:42:10 +0000

Also, your type should be “text/plain” rather than “plain/text”

By: Ian G. Clifton

Ian G. Clifton — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 18:41:28 +0000

I’d guess that it’s not finding an Activity that matches your Intent. Check the log output to see if that’s the error (and if it is, it should show what Intent it is trying to match). You can also add the FLAG_DEBUG_LOG_RESOLUTION flag to your Intent to get more information in your logs.

By: Devin

Devin — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 22:27:19 +0000

I am trying to get an android app to send an email but my emulator quits working when it gets to the startActivity() in my code. The code follows:

Intent emailIntent = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_SEND);
emailIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL, “dckeep1@gmail.com”);
emailIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, “Benford’s Law Results”);
emailIntent.setType(“plain/text”);
emailIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, output.getText().toString());
startActivity(emailIntent);

Do you have any suggestions as to why?

By: Bill Lahti

Bill Lahti — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 15:19:54 +0000

Thanks a lot for taking the time to write this up. I had used that Html method for text views and had not thought of using it for email too.

By: Regis

Regis — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 09:36:46 +0000

Would it be possible to update this excellent tuto to explain how to do in order to do so that the html links are also displayed in the standard Android email client ? (not only in Gmail) Send me an email if you do that. Thanks ! !

By: Yanira Masiejczyk

Yanira Masiejczyk — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 14:18:48 +0000

finally found it. great!