Android™

Create Email with Non-Standard Binary Body

Creates an email where the only body is a binary WAV file. The technique used in the example could be applied to other binary files, such as PDF, MS-WORD docs, Excel docs, etc. 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;

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

    CkMime mime = new CkMime();

    success = mime.SetBodyFromFile("VoiceMessage.wav");
    if (success == false) {
        Log.i(TAG, mime.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    // The MIME has this header:
    // Content-Disposition: attachment;
    // 	 filename="VoiceMessage.wav"
    // Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
    // Content-Type: audio/x-wav;
    // 	name="VoiceMessage.wav"

    // We don't want the content-disposition to be an
    // attachment -- otherwise the email object will self-correct
    // and put it in a multipart/mixed format...
    mime.put_Disposition("");
    mime.put_Filename("");

    String strMime;
    strMime = mime.getMime();
    Log.i(TAG, strMime);

    // Now load it into an email object:
    CkEmail email = new CkEmail();
    success = email.SetFromMimeText(strMime);
    if (success == false) {
        Log.i(TAG, email.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    // Add subject, TO, FROM, etc.
    email.put_Subject("This is a test");
    email.put_From("support@chilkatsoft.com");
    success = email.AddTo("Matt","matt@chilkatsoft.com");

    // Your email is ready to send.
    // (but for this example, we'll simply save it to a file...)
    success = email.SaveEml("email.eml");
    if (success == false) {
        Log.i(TAG, email.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    Log.i(TAG, "OK!");

  }

  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."
  }
}