Question

I have the following piece of code to check for supported intents. The code behaves as expected on the emulator when I check for email support. When I run the same on my actual devices HTC Wildfire and Samsung Galaxy Nexus, the isEmailSupported method returns false.

public static boolean isEmailSupported(Context context) {
    Intent emailIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
    emailIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL, "[e-mail]");
    emailIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "Lorem ipsum...");
    return isIntentSupported(context, emailIntent);
}

public static boolean isIntentSupported(Context context, Intent intent) {
    PackageManager packageManager = context.getPackageManager();
    List<ResolveInfo> intentActivities = packageManager.queryIntentActivities(
            intent, PackageManager.MATCH_DEFAULT_ONLY);
    return intentActivities != null && intentActivities.size() > 0;
}

Any pointers would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Try adding the MIME type that you forgot to include in your ACTION_SEND Intent. You must call setType() with the MIME type of the content you are putting in EXTRA_TEXT (in this case, apparently text/plain).