Question

I have this code to send an emai with an audio attachment that is coming from the raw folder:

Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
i.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
i.setType("Audio/basic");
i.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "mySubject");
i.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "myBody");
i.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, Uri.parse("android.resource://[my_package]/raw/sound"));
startActivity(i);

This code works fine.

I tried to adapt the same code so that I can send MMS message with audio attachment from the raw folder.

I came up with this:

String uri= "mmsto:";
Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SENDTO, Uri.parse(uri));
i.putExtra("sms_body", "myBody");
i.putExtra("compose_mode", true);
i.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, Uri.parse"android.resource://[my_package]/raw/sound"));
startActivity(i);

The code opens an SMS application. However, there isn’t any attachment to the message !

Am I doing it right? Please help me with that.

Answer 1

To those who might be interested:

MMS Functionality is a bit unreliable, not well-documented feature in Android. So, the existed solutions are supposed to work but they will not work all the time on all the devices. You can’t depend on them, yet.