Question

I have an “about” menu button and wish to add a “contact” message with my mail.
Can i put the mail address with an hyperlink to the default mail application in the phone ?
Thank you.

Answer 1

You can use android:autoLink in an XML definition or setAutoLinkMask in code on a TextView in your About dialog. I would assume but haven’t tried that if the text is of the form mailto:// it will open the email app. It opens the browser using http:// which I have tried.

Edit:

For a basic view that you could assign the the AlertDialog with setView you could do:

 TextView emailLink = new TextView(myActivity.this);
 emailLink.setAutoLinkMask(true);
 emailLink.setText("mailto://<your email address>");

 AlertDialog aboutBox = new AlertDialog(myActivity.this);
 aboutBox.setView(emailLink);

This is psuedo code and may need modifying for your situation.

Edit:

For a more complicated view try:

 LinearLayout aboutLayout = new LinearLayout(myActivity.this);
 aboutLayout.setOrientation(LinearLayout.VERTICAL);
 TextView aboutText = new TextView(myActivity.this);
 TextView emailLink = new TextView(myActivity.this);
 emailLink.setAutoLinkMask(true);
 emailLink.setText("mailto://<your email address>");

 // addView is best used with setting LayoutParams.
 // eg addView(view, layoutParams). The following is for simplicity.

 aboutLayout.addView(aboutText);
 aboutLayout.addView(emailLink); 

 AlertDialog aboutBox = new AlertDialog(myActivity.this);
 aboutBox.setView(aboutLayout);

An even better way of doing this is to define your layout in XML and manually inflate it and then add to the AlertDialog using addView.