Android Question How: My app being selectable for sending email (in sendto dialog)

[olivere]

Hi,

several apps allows to export data as csv or pdf - when choosing this option, a dialog with all email apps apperars, from which the user can select the app to send an mail.

Now my newbie questions:

a) how can I make my app to be displayed in the sendto-dialog of the phone ?
b) how can I retrieve the parameters (e.g. a file and/or to/subject fields) passed by the invoking app ?
c) How can I retrieve the name of the invoking app ?

Thank you
Oli

 

[Erel]

Start with this thread: https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/can-activity-getstartingintent-be-reset-or-cleared.38004

 

[olivere]

Thank you Erel,

I found the solution: the trick was to add the mimeType (seems to be required):

AddActivityText(Main,
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.SEND" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
<data android:mimeType="*/*" />
</intent-filter>)

But how can I retrieve the name of the invoking app ?

 

[Erel]

Check Log(Intent.ExtrasToString). This will print the information available.

There is no information about the intent source. If the source is your app then you can add any data you like to the intent.