Android™
Build a multipart/related MIME Message

Demonstrates how to construct a multipart/related MIME message containing HTML and a related JPG image.
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// Important: Don't forget to include the call to System.loadLibrary
// as shown at the bottom of this code sample.
package com.test;

import android.app.Activity;
import com.chilkatsoft.*;

import android.widget.TextView;
import android.os.Bundle;

public class SimpleActivity extends Activity {

  private static final String TAG = "Chilkat";

  // Called when the activity is first created.
  @Override
  public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    boolean success = false;

    //  This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
    //  See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

    //  Start with an empty MIME object...
    CkMime mime = new CkMime();

    //  Initialize it as multipart/related.
    mime.NewMultipartRelated();

    //  Set a top-level MIME header field.
    mime.SetHeaderField("Subject","Test HTML email with JPG image.");

    //  Generate a Content-ID.  This will contain random data that will allow
    //  the HTML's "img" tag to reference the image part in the MIME.
    CkCrypt2 crypt = new CkCrypt2();
    crypt.put_EncodingMode("hex");

    CkStringBuilder sbContentId = new CkStringBuilder();
    sbContentId.Append("part1.");
    sbContentId.Append(crypt.genRandomBytesENC(4));
    sbContentId.Append(".");
    sbContentId.Append(crypt.genRandomBytesENC(4));
    sbContentId.Append("@chilkatsoft.com");

    //  Create the HTML body.
    CkStringBuilder sbHtml = new CkStringBuilder();
    sbHtml.Append("<html><head>\r\n");
    sbHtml.Append("<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\">\r\n");
    sbHtml.Append("  </head>\r\n");
    sbHtml.Append("  <body bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\" text=\"#000000\">\r\n");
    sbHtml.Append("    <p>This is a test.&nbsp; <img src=\"cid:CONTENT_ID\" height=\"20\" width=\"20\"></p>\r\n");
    sbHtml.Append("  </body>\r\n");
    sbHtml.Append("</html>\r\n");
    int numReplacements = sbHtml.Replace("CONTENT_ID",sbContentId.getAsString());

    //  Create the HTML MIME part.
    CkMime htmlMime = new CkMime();
    htmlMime.SetBodyFromHtml(sbHtml.getAsString());
    htmlMime.put_Encoding("8bit");
    htmlMime.put_Charset("utf-8");

    //  Load our JPG image from a file.
    CkFileAccess fac = new CkFileAccess();
    CkByteData jpgBytes = new CkByteData();
    success = fac.ReadEntireFile("qa_data/jpg/starfish20.jpg",jpgBytes);

    //  Create an image/jpeg MIME part.
    CkMime jpgMime = new CkMime();
    jpgMime.SetBodyFromBinary(jpgBytes);
    //  Setting the following properties has the effect of adding
    //  the Content-Type, Content-Transfer-Encoding, and Content-Disposition header fields.
    //  These header fields could also be set via the SetHeaderField method, in which case
    //  the values of the affected properties would be updated.
    jpgMime.put_ContentType("image/jpeg");
    jpgMime.put_Name("starfish20.jpg");
    jpgMime.put_Encoding("base64");
    jpgMime.put_Disposition("inline");
    jpgMime.put_Filename("starfish20.jpg");

    CkStringBuilder sbContentIdHdr = new CkStringBuilder();
    sbContentIdHdr.Append("<CONTENT_ID>");
    numReplacements = sbContentIdHdr.Replace("CONTENT_ID",sbContentId.getAsString());
    jpgMime.SetHeaderField("Content-ID",sbContentIdHdr.getAsString());

    //  Add both parts as children of the multipart/related
    mime.AppendPart(htmlMime);
    mime.AppendPart(jpgMime);
    Log.i(TAG, mime.getMime());

    //  --------------------------------------------------------------
    //  --------------------------------------------------------------
    //  This example builds the following MIME message.  The boundary
    //  and Content-ID strings contain random data and will be different.  

    //  Content-Type: multipart/related; boundary="------------A940F1230E6F0105F03DB2CB"
    //  Subject: Test HTML email with JPG image.
    //  
    //  --------------A940F1230E6F0105F03DB2CB
    //  Content-Type: text/html; charset="utf-8"
    //  Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
    //  
    //  <html><head>
    //  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
    //    </head>
    //    <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
    //      <p>This is a test.&nbsp; <img src="cid:part1.E16AE3B4.1505C436@chilkatsoft.com" height="20" width="20"></p>
    //    </body>
    //  </html>
    //  
    //  --------------A940F1230E6F0105F03DB2CB
    //  Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
    //  Content-Type: image/jpeg; name="starfish20.jpg"
    //  Content-Disposition: inline; filename="starfish20.jpg"
    //  Content-ID: <part1.E16AE3B4.1505C436@chilkatsoft.com>
    //  
    //  /9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQEASABIAAD//gAmRmlsZSB3cml0dGVuIGJ5IEFkb2JlIFBob3Rvc2hvcD8g
    //  NC4w/9sAQwAQCwwODAoQDg0OEhEQExgoGhgWFhgxIyUdKDozPTw5Mzg3QEhcTkBEV0U3OFBtUVdf
    //  YmdoZz5NcXlwZHhcZWdj/9sAQwEREhIYFRgvGhovY0I4QmNjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2Nj
    //  Y2NjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2Nj/8IAEQgAFAAUAwERAAIRAQMRAf/EABcAAAMBAAAA
    //  AAAAAAAAAAAAAAIDBAX/xAAYAQADAQEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABAgMEAP/aAAwDAQACEAMQAAAB2kZY
    //  NNEijWKddfTmLgALWH//xAAbEAACAgMBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABAgMRAAQSE//aAAgBAQABBQL0XqN+
    //  pM2aqJGMiqFFCyg7z//EABwRAAICAgMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAERAAIQIQMSUf/aAAgBAwEBPwHqU5aq
    //  Axx+y1tMQl4elj//xAAcEQEAAQUBAQAAAAAAAAAAAAABEQACEBIhA1H/2gAIAQIBAT8B3Bhqy7Zc
    //  enyiwmGgDhiOzj//xAAdEAABAwUBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABAAIREBIhIkFR/9oACAEBAAY/ArZyn+Cg
    //  xtxWuJaoCnqDuin/xAAcEAABBAMBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABABEhYRAxQVH/2gAIAQEAAT8hkEwPUUR9
    //  DYfE4nxtRpIkBTsayuALIiuY/9oADAMBAAIAAwAAABDWPTsf/8QAGhEAAwADAQAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
    //  AAEREDFBIf/aAAgBAwEBPxC0DVPcWm+Ce4OesrkE6bjH/8QAGBEBAQEBAQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAREA
    //  QRD/2gAIAQIBAT8QahMiOc8YgSrnTY3ELclHXn//xAAcEAEBAAIDAQEAAAAAAAAAAAABEQAhMUFx
    //  EFH/2gAIAQEAAT8Qn3igmSZSj+c4N4zapMy9IjFV98wncN2iuLFsCEbDGxQkI6RO/n//2Q==
    //  
    //  --------------A940F1230E6F0105F03DB2CB--
    //  

  }

  static {
      System.loadLibrary("chilkat");

      // Note: If the incorrect library name is passed to System.loadLibrary,
      // then you will see the following error message at application startup:
      //"The application <your-application-name> has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again."
  }
}