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GMail SMTP Send using Previously Obtained OAuth2 Access Token

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Demonstrates how to send email using GMail and OAuth2 authentication. This example assumes an OAuth2 access token was previously obtained.

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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.

    // See Get GMail SMTP Access Token 
    // for sample code showing how to obtain a GMail SMTP access token for desktop apps.

    // In this example, our access token was previously saved to the following file which contains JSON like this:
    // 	{
    // 	 "access_token": "ya39.Ci-XA_C5bGgRDC3UaD-h0_NeL-DVIQnI2gHtBBBHkZzrwlARkwX6R3O0PCDEzRlfaQ",
    // 	 "token_type": "Bearer",
    // 	 "expires_in": 3600,
    // 	 "refresh_token": "1/r_2c_7jddspcdfesrrfKqfXtqo08D6Q-gUU0DsdfVMsx0c"
    // 	}
    // 
    CkJsonObject json = new CkJsonObject();
    success = json.LoadFile("qa_data/tokens/_gmailSmtp.json");
    if (success != true) {
        Log.i(TAG, "Failed to load GMail access token file.");
        return;
        }

    String accessToken = json.stringOf("access_token");

    CkMailMan mailman = new CkMailMan();

    // Set the properties for the GMail SMTP server:
    mailman.put_SmtpHost("smtp.gmail.com");
    mailman.put_SmtpPort(587);
    mailman.put_StartTLS(true);

    // The SMTP username should be the GMail address of the user's account that authorized your app to send email.
    mailman.put_SmtpUsername("chilkat.support@gmail.com");
    mailman.put_OAuth2AccessToken(accessToken);

    // Create a new email object
    CkEmail email = new CkEmail();

    email.put_Subject("This is a test");
    email.put_Body("This is a test");
    email.put_From("Chilkat <chilkat.support@gmail.com>");
    email.AddTo("Chilkat Admin","admin@chilkatsoft.com");
    // To add more recipients, call AddTo, AddCC, or AddBcc once per recipient.

    // Call SendEmail to connect to the SMTP server and send.
    // The connection (i.e. session) to the SMTP server remains
    // open so that subsequent SendEmail calls may use the
    // same connection.  
    success = mailman.SendEmail(email);
    if (success != true) {
        Log.i(TAG, mailman.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    // You may close the connection here.  If the connection is kept open, 
    // the next call to mailman.SendEmail will continue using the already-established connection
    // (and automatically re-connect if needed).
    success = mailman.CloseSmtpConnection();
    if (success != true) {
        Log.i(TAG, "Connection to SMTP server not closed cleanly.");
        }

    Log.i(TAG, "Email Sent via GMail with OAuth2 authentication.");

  }

  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."
  }
}