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Android™

Save Email Attachments to Filesystem

Saves email attachments to a directory.

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Android™
// 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;

    CkEmail email = new CkEmail();

    // Load an email object containing attachments.
    // This .eml can be downloaded from:
    // http://www.example-code.com/testData/HtmlEmail.eml

    success = email.LoadEml("HtmlEmail.eml");
    if (success != true) {
        Log.i(TAG, email.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    // If OverwriteExisting is turned on, files with the same
    // name are overwritten.  If turned off, new/unique filenames
    // are automatically generated.  The filenames actually saved
    // are accessible via the GetAttachmentFilename method.
    email.put_OverwriteExisting(true);

    // Save all attachments to the "myAttachments" subdirectory
    // found under the calling process's current working directory.
    // This directory is automatically created if it does not already
    // exist.
    success = email.SaveAllAttachments("myAttachments");
    if (success != true) {
        Log.i(TAG, email.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    // List the attachment filenames:
    int i;
    for (i = 0; i <= email.get_NumAttachments() - 1; i++) {
        Log.i(TAG, email.getAttachmentFilename(i));
        }


  }

  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."
  }
}