Question

I am trying to send a pdf as an attachment from Android. Here is the code:

String[] mailto = {"[e-mail]"};
Uri uri = Uri.parse("android.resource://com.mywebsite.sendemail/raw/mypdf");

Intent emailIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
emailIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL, mailto);
emailIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "My Subject");
emailIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "My Body");
emailIntent.setType("application/pdf");
emailIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, uri);

startActivity(Intent.createChooser(emailIntent, "Send email using:"));

Now this works but the problem is that the attachment is called mypdf instead of mypdf.pdf. I cannot figure out how to send it with it’s extension… That’s what I need help with. Thanks.

Answer 1

I am unconvinced what you want will be possible, since you are pulling the PDF from a resource. If you copy the PDF to a local file (with the correct extension) and send that, you should get the extension in the resulting message. But straight out of the resource…I suspect there’s no way to add the extension.