Send Email with Attachment in Android

Manish SrivastavaOctober 3rd, 2013Last Updated: October 2nd, 2013

20 760 2 minutes read

This is a simple demo for send email in Android with attachment. For attachment I am using Intent.ACTION_GET_CONTENT.

Don’t forget to add permissions in your manifest.xml-

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_INTERNAL_STORAGE" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE" />

1)MainActivity.java

package com.manish.sendemaildemo;
 
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.database.Cursor;
import android.net.Uri;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.provider.MediaStore;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.View.OnClickListener;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.EditText;
import android.widget.Toast;
 
/**
 *
 * @author manish
 *
 */
public class MainActivity extends Activity implements OnClickListener {
 
       EditText editTextEmail, editTextSubject, editTextMessage;
       Button btnSend, btnAttachment;
       String email, subject, message, attachmentFile;
       Uri URI = null;
       private static final int PICK_FROM_GALLERY = 101;
       int columnIndex;
 
       @Override
       protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
              super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
              setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
              editTextEmail = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editTextTo);
              editTextSubject = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editTextSubject);
              editTextMessage = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editTextMessage);
              btnAttachment = (Button) findViewById(R.id.buttonAttachment);
              btnSend = (Button) findViewById(R.id.buttonSend);
 
              btnSend.setOnClickListener(this);
              btnAttachment.setOnClickListener(this);
       }
 
       protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
              if (requestCode == PICK_FROM_GALLERY && resultCode == RESULT_OK) {
                     /**
                      * Get Path
                      */
                     Uri selectedImage = data.getData();
                     String[] filePathColumn = { MediaStore.Images.Media.DATA };
 
                     Cursor cursor = getContentResolver().query(selectedImage,filePathColumn, null, null, null);
                     cursor.moveToFirst();
                     columnIndex = cursor.getColumnIndex(filePathColumn[0]);
                     attachmentFile = cursor.getString(columnIndex);
                     Log.e("Attachment Path:", attachmentFile);
                     URI = Uri.parse("file://" + attachmentFile);
                     cursor.close();
              }
       }
 
       @Override
       public void onClick(View v) {
 
              if (v == btnAttachment) {
                     openGallery();
 
              }
              if (v == btnSend) {
                     try {
                           email = editTextEmail.getText().toString();
                           subject = editTextSubject.getText().toString();
                           message = editTextMessage.getText().toString();
 
                           final Intent emailIntent = new Intent(
                                         android.content.Intent.ACTION_SEND);
                           emailIntent.setType("plain/text");
                           emailIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL,
                                         new String[] { email });
                           emailIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT,
                                         subject);
                           if (URI != null) {
                                  emailIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, URI);
                           }
                           emailIntent
                                         .putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, message);
                           this.startActivity(Intent.createChooser(emailIntent,
                                         "Sending email..."));
 
                     } catch (Throwable t) {
                           Toast.makeText(this,
                                         "Request failed try again: " + t.toString(),
                                         Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
                     }
              }
 
       }
 
       public void openGallery() {
              Intent intent = new Intent();
              intent.setType("image/*");
              intent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_GET_CONTENT);
              intent.putExtra("return-data", true);
              startActivityForResult(
                           Intent.createChooser(intent, "Complete action using"),
                           PICK_FROM_GALLERY);
 
       }
 
}

2)activity_main.xml

<ScrollView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:padding="5dp"
    tools:context=".MainActivity" >
 
    <RelativeLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_margin="5dp"
        android:padding="5dp" >
 
        <EditText
            android:id="@+id/editTextTo"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
            android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
            android:layout_margin="5dp"
            android:hint="Email Address!"
            android:inputType="textEmailAddress"
            android:singleLine="true" />
 
        <EditText
            android:id="@+id/editTextSubject"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_below="@id/editTextTo"
            android:layout_margin="5dp"
            android:hint="Subject"
            android:singleLine="true" />
 
        <EditText
            android:id="@+id/editTextMessage"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="200dp"
            android:layout_below="@id/editTextSubject"
            android:layout_margin="5dp"
            android:gravity="top|left"
            android:hint="type message here!"
            android:inputType="textMultiLine" />
 
        <Button
            android:id="@+id/buttonSend"
            android:layout_width="80dp"
            android:layout_height="50dp"
            android:layout_below="@id/editTextMessage"
            android:layout_margin="5dp"
            android:text="Send" />
 
        <Button
            android:id="@+id/buttonAttachment"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="50dp"
            android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
            android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
            android:text="attachment" />
    </RelativeLayout>
 
</ScrollView>

3)AndroidManifest.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    package="com.manish.sendemaildemo"
    android:versionCode="1"
    android:versionName="1.0" >
 
    <uses-sdk
        android:minSdkVersion="8"
        android:targetSdkVersion="16" />
 
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_INTERNAL_STORAGE" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE" />
 
    <application
        android:allowBackup="true"
        android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
        android:label="@string/app_name"
        android:theme="@style/AppTheme" >
        <activity
            android:name="com.manish.sendemaildemo.MainActivity"
            android:label="@string/app_name" >
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
 
                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
            </intent-filter>
        </activity>
    </application>
 
</manifest>

Thanks!

Reference: Send Email with Attachment in Android from our JCG partner Manish Srivastava at the Android Hub 4 you blog.

Manish SrivastavaOctober 3rd, 2013Last Updated: October 2nd, 2013

20 760 2 minutes read

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needHelp

11 years ago

Thanks for the above tutorial,

But How can we read email with Attachments in Android App.

As we can read Complete Mail on Gmail’s Own App.

Thanks A lot again.

Waiting for Your Reply.

keerthi

i’m new for android…. i need code for displaying DAT file……

Daisy

i have one problem..

i added this to my app but i can’t make it work

i made new activity and added this to AndroidManifest

<activity
android:name=".ContactusActivity"

also i did the other but not working… it’s workin when i make contactusActivity the default activity… how i can run it along with the other activities?

thanks

Marcos

Hello, how can we do the same thing but this time for a word document ??

Amal

10 years ago

How can i send an email in background in android studio?

Fashnl

I am getting errors with this code :(

arihant

in above code only image can attached how we do for any doc file or other file

suresh

Reply to arihant

open gallery()
{

emailIntent.setType(“*/*”);

}

Devloper

Sir! The code almost works fine… But, whenever i send email or compose it.. It shows me “Successfully! sent”… (I had added a alert) but the message doesn’t actually sent.. I had checked mailbox and even Spambox but no message there sent via this app.

Please feedback this query with a valid solution.

imran

9 years ago

how can i fetch this attachment in my android app from gmial. can you send me code.

Ali

Hi, your app basically just inserts data into another e-mail app, can you show how to send the e-mail from within the app (automated) using for example JavaMail API or some other method?

Waseem Akram

Hey Dear, i am new in android. i have made an application that communicate between user by text messages using sockets and xampp server. now i want to attach some files like image and send it to other user… please help me…. thanks for any help…

andreas

This simply doesn’t work. I get a null on the attachmentFile after choosing an image.

mano

Reply to andreas

Have you figured it out?

varunlokesh

showStatusIcon on inactive InputConnection

Reply to varunlokesh

showStatusIcon on inactive InputConnection(plz help me with this error)

not able to attach file

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sudheer

8 years ago

image file is working but word document is not attaching what can i do

Mehul

7 years ago

im getting error in cursor.movetofirst() how to solve

Send Email with Attachment in Android

1)MainActivity.java

2)activity_main.xml

3)AndroidManifest.xml

Thank you!

Manish Srivastava

Thank you!

1)MainActivity.java

2)activity_main.xml

3)AndroidManifest.xml

Thank you!

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