problem sending an email with an attachment programmatically

Question

hello..

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, " + "\"**alt = \"**pleaseview this image\"/>");

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

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

thanks man....got it...