{"id":76491,"date":"2020-02-29T09:40:40","date_gmt":"2020-02-29T04:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/data-flair.training\/blogs\/?p=76491"},"modified":"2021-08-25T14:04:49","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T08:34:49","slug":"send-email-from-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/data-flair.training\/blogs\/send-email-from-android\/","title":{"rendered":"Send Email from Android – Study how to enable emails in your Android application"},"content":{"rendered":"

So coming to the third service of Android that is Email. At this point, we are now well aware of the other two services that are SMS and Call. If you haven\u2019t seen the tutorials on SMS<\/strong><\/em><\/a> and Call<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, you can see them through. Okay coming back to the Email Service. So emails today play a crucial role in our lives. And we all are well aware of Emails, Right? Don\u2019t worry if you are not. It\u2019s just a message, that is, distributed by electronic means from one device to others over the network. In this article, we will learn to send email from Android.<\/p>\n

So let us know that for email service also, we would need Intent. It carries data from one component to other components either within an application or outside it.<\/p>\n

Know the concept of Intents with DataFlair’s Android Intent<\/a> article.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Now to enable emails from our application, we can simply use an existing app provided by Android. We need not implement the whole email client from the start. Some of the default applications are Gmail, MS Outlook, Spark, etc<\/em>. To use these applications, we will launch an Activity using Implicit Intent.<\/p>\n

How to Use Intent to Send Email from Android?<\/h2>\n

Let us see first, how we are going to use the Intent for sending mails through our application.<\/p>\n

1. Action in Intent to Send an Email<\/h4>\n

The action that we will use is ACTION_SEND<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

And we will use the following syntax and write it like this to add Action Send.<\/p>\n

Intent myIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);<\/pre>\n
2. Data in Intent to Send an Email<\/h4>\n
To send the email, we will specify the email-Id using setData in mailto<\/strong>: as URI data. We will do it as follows:<\/p>\n
myIntent.setData(Uri.parse(\"mailto:\"));\r\nmyIntent.setType(\"text\/plain\");<\/pre>\n
putExtra() Method in Android<\/h3>\n
We use the method known as putExtra()<\/strong> to add some extra information in our Intent. It can add the following in the information as Extra:<\/p>\n