Question

How do you send email through a “menu” button? I have inflated a menu with an option called “send”. Once pressed it should open the Intent.ACTION_SEND and then the user can choose to send me an email.

I know how to achieve this via a Button and OnClickListener. But not through a menu. The code pasted below does not work. What am I doing wrong?

Thank you for your time.

CustomStoreActivity:

    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater();
    inflater.inflate(R.menu.customstore_menu, menu);
    return true;
}

@Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
    switch (item.getItemId()) {
    case R.id.send:

        Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
        i.setType("text/plain");
        i.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL,
                new String[] { "[e-mail]" });
        i.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "Adding new shop to MinuteMap");
        i.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "nll");
        // shopName + shopTimeM1);

        break;

    default:
        return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
    }
    return true;

}

Answer 1

you can use below code :::

Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
i.setType("text/plain");
i.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL, new String[] { "[e-mail]" });
i.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "Adding new shop to MinuteMap");
i.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "nll"); 
startActivity(i);