That's great. Thanks. Unfortunately this tells me I have to live with what I have since it's beyond my control. I don't mind if other email clients (gmail or whatever) pick up the intent - it's the user's choice - I'd just rather not pick up apps that are not especially suited to my purpose. So it goes.
On Jun 26, 10:09 pm, Doug <[email protected]> wrote: > For Email/MMS app: > (from packages/apps/Email/AndroidManifest.xml and packages/apps/Mms/ > AndroidManifest.xml) > > <data android:mimeType="text/plain" /> > <data android:mimeType="image/*" /> > <data android:mimeType="video/*" /> > > Of course, these are just the mimeType's mentioned in the manifest > files distributed as part of the 1.5 source - any additional apps > installed on the phone (like the GMail client) will undoubtedly > provide their own. And anything could happen in the next release :) > > Doug > > On Jun 26, 1:05 pm, Nmix <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I am experimenting with sending email from within my app by launching > > an email app with startActivity(Intent.ACTION_SEND) or > > (Intent.createChooser(i, title) with various extras. I have it > > working, although not completely to my liking. > > > ACTION_SEND is fairly generic so the chooser pulls up email apps and > > also messaging apps. If there's just the one email app, this means one > > extra step for the user that would be nice to avoid. Is this > > possible? > > > Another question is with the mime type set with intent.setType(). The > > doc on setType suggests "text/plain" when EXTRA_TEXT is used. This > > works ok. However when I had first tried setting the mime type to > > "message/rfc822", the chooser failed to find any app that could handle > > it. (I found this from an example posted by Mark Murphy on Dec 12/08.) > > This makes me wonder just how I can latch onto the email apps more > > effectively. Is there a list of mime types that are handled by the > > Google-supplied messaging apps? Maybe some choice will help me to > > avoid having the chooser pull up unwanted choices. > > > Thanks. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
