Gmail subaddressing ('plus sign' addressing) in Android

Question

This is a very simple issue. I'm trying to put a link to an email address in a TextView, using Html.fromHtml.

body.setText(Html.fromHtml("<a href=\"mailto:[email protected]\">Contact</a>"));

When that link is clicked, a new email is addressed to "emailaddress [email protected]". Notice that the plus symbol has disappeared. I've tried this:

body.setText(Html.fromHtml("<a href=\"mailto:emailaddress"+'+'+"[email protected]\">Contact</a>"));

and

body.setText(Html.fromHtml("<a href=\"mailto:emailaddress&#43;[email protected]\">Contact</a>"));

to the same result.

Anyone know how I can get the link to work correctly?

Answer 1

A + sign is one URL-encoded form of a space (the other is %20). To encode a literal + sign in a URL, you need to escape it in the same way - in this case as %2B