You should not be using class names like that. It is advised to use the
Intent Mechanism only. If the user hasn't configured the mail account, it's
the responsibility of the mail app to open the proper activity.

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 12:59 AM, Priyank Maiya <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi,
> Thanks for your reply. What you said worked. Instead of querying the email
> provider, I directly called the intent:
>
> emailIntent.setClassName("com.android.email",
> "com.android.email.activity.Welcome");
> startActivity(emailIntent);
>
> But my doubt is that, I dont know whether the user has configured his email
> or not.
> i.e whether to call the Welcome activity or MessageCompose activity of the
> email application.
> Because of this, I thought of querying the email app and if there is an
> account, I will start the MessageCompose  activity.
>
> Is there any other way of doing this ?
>
> Thanks again. your suggestion really helped.
>
> Priyank
>
> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Kumar Bibek <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> You can open the Activity(Compose) of the mail app. But the content
>> provider for the gmail app is not public. So, you cannot query that content
>> provider.
>>
>> If you want to send an audio file as an attachement, checkout the SEND
>> action.
>>
>> http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Intent.html#ACTION_SEND
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 12:09 AM, Priyank <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have my application which creates an audio file. I need to forward
>>> this file via Android Email app. But on calling the email intent, I
>>> get a permission denial.
>>>
>>> I am calling the email app like this:
>>>                Uri  emailUri =
>>> Uri.parse("content://com.android.email.provider/
>>> account");
>>>                Cursor cursor = mCr.query(emailUri, null, null, null,
>>> null);
>>>
>>> I get an exception :
>>> java.lang.SecurityException: Permission Denial: reading
>>> com.android.email.provider.EmailProvider uri
>>> content://com.android.email.provider/account
>>> from pid=1721, uid=10031 requires
>>> com.android.email.permission.ACCESS_PROVIDER
>>>
>>> I have set the email permission in my Manifest file:
>>> <uses-permission
>>> android:name="com.android.email.permission.ACCESS_PROVIDER"></uses-
>>> permission>
>>>
>>> When I am launching the app, I get this "Not granting access" message
>>> in the ddms logs:
>>> WARN/PackageManager(90): Not granting permission
>>> com.android.email.permission.ACCESS_PROVIDER to package
>>> com.mplayer.application (protectionLevel=3 flags=0xbe44)
>>>
>>> Can I not open the android email app from my application.
>>> I am working on Android 2.2
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Priyank
>>>
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>>
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