Sending Email in Android

In Android, you can use Intent.ACTION_SEND to call an existing email client to send an Email.

Follow the below steps:

Intent email = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);

email.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL, new String[]

{"youremail@gmail.com"});

email.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "subject");

email.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "message");

email.setType("plain/text");

startActivity(Intent.createChooser(email,"Send mail..."));

Here ACTION_SEND used for Deliver some data to someone else.Who the data

is being delivered to is not specified; it is up to the receiver of this action to ask the

user where the data should be sent.

When launching a SEND intent, you should usually wrap it in a chooser (through

createChooser(Intent, CharSequence)), which will give the proper interface for the

user to pick how to send your data and allow you to specify a prompt  indicating

what they are doing.

Input: setType() is the MIME type of the data being sent. putExtra can have either

a EXTRA_TEXT or EXTRA_STREAM field, containing the data to be sent. If using

EXTRA_TEXT, the MIME type should be "text/plain".

Here is my main.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

android:id="@+id/LinearLayout01"

android:layout_width="fill_parent"

android:layout_height="fill_parent"

LinearLayout=""

android:orientation="vertical" >

    <LinearLayout

        android:id="@+id/LinearLayout02"

        android:layout_width="wrap_content"

        android:layout_height="wrap_content"

        android:orientation="horizontal" >

        <EditText

            android:id="@+id/emailaddress"   

            android:layout_width="wrap_content"

            android:layout_height="wrap_content"

            android:width="170dip" >

        </EditText>

        <TextView

            android:id="@+id/emailaddress"

            android:layout_width="wrap_content"

            android:layout_height="wrap_content"

            android:text="Email address" >

        </TextView>

    </LinearLayout>

    <LinearLayout

        android:id="@+id/LinearLayout03"

        android:layout_width="wrap_content"

        android:layout_height="wrap_content"

        android:orientation="horizontal" >

        <EditText

            android:id="@+id/emailsubject"

            android:layout_width="wrap_content"

            android:layout_height="wrap_content"

            android:width="170dip" >

        </EditText>

        <TextView

            android:id="@+id/emailsubject"

            android:layout_width="wrap_content"

            android:layout_height="wrap_content"

            android:text="Subject" >

        </TextView>

    </LinearLayout>

    <EditText

        android:id="@+id/emailtext"

        android:layout_width="wrap_content"

        android:layout_height="wrap_content"

        android:lines="5"

        android:width="300dip" >

    </EditText>

    <Button

        android:id="@+id/emailsendbutton"

        android:layout_width="wrap_content"

        android:layout_height="wrap_content"

        Send=""

        android:width="150dip" >

    </Button>

</LinearLayout>

My class file is:

public class Email extends Activity {

    Button send;

    EditText address, subject, emailtext;

@Override

public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    setContentView(R.layout.main);

    send=(Button) findViewById(R.id.emailsendbutton);

    address=(EditText) findViewById(R.id.emailaddress);

    subject=(EditText) findViewById(R.id.emailsubject);

    emailtext=(EditText) findViewById(R.id.emailtext);

  

    send.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

                    @Override

                    public void onClick(View v) {

                            // TODO Auto-generated method stub

          final Intent emailIntent = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_SEND);

         emailIntent.setType("plain/text");

         emailIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL, new String[] {address.getText().toString()});                            

         emailIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, subject.getText());

         emailIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, emailtext.getText());

         Email.this.startActivity(Intent.createChooser(emailIntent, "Send mail..."));

                    }

            });

}

}

Note

Android does not provide API to send Email directly, you have to call the existing Email client to send Email.

For this we need to configure Email client in our device/Emulator.