Question

I want to send an email with android 2.2. First I made an intent chooser with an ACTION_SEND to select which to use :

Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);

intent.setType("text/plain");
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, Resources.getString("EmailInvitationSubject", getBaseContext()));
String body = Resources.getString("EmailInvitationBody", getBaseContext()) + Local.User.FirstName;
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, body);

startActivity(Intent.createChooser(intent, "Invite friends"));

But in that case, the selector show ‘Bluetooth, Messaging, Google+, Gmail’. I want to show ONLY Gmail or other email app.

I saw in the sdk docs there’s a new CATEGORY_APP_EMAIL to use but it’s only available in the API level 15. I have to keep API level 8. Is there a way to do that ?

By the way, I’ll want to do it for messaging too so that in the end I can have 2 buttons: one for email and one for messaging.

Answer 1

This code will shows only the email clients,

   Intent email = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
    email.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL, new String[]{"[e-mail]"});          
    email.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "subject");
    email.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "message");
    email.setType("message/rfc822");
    startActivity(Intent.createChooser(email, "Choose an Email client :"));