Android™

Send Email With Attachments

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Demonstrates how to send an email with attachments. 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.

    // The mailman object is used for sending (SMTP) and receiving (POP3) email.
    CkMailMan mailman = new CkMailMan();

    // Set the SMTP server.
    mailman.put_SmtpHost("smtp.my-tls-mail-server.com");

    // Set the SMTP login/password (if required)
    mailman.put_SmtpUsername("MY_SMTP_USERNAME");
    mailman.put_SmtpPassword("MY_SMTP_PASSWORD");

    // Connect to SMTP port 465 using TLS.
    mailman.put_SmtpSsl(true);
    mailman.put_SmtpPort(465);

    // 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 Support <support@chilkatsoft.com>");
    success = email.AddTo("Chilkat Admin","admin@chilkatsoft.com");
    // To add more recipients, call AddTo, AddCC, or AddBcc once per recipient.

    // Add some attachments.
    // The AddFileAttachment method returns the value of the content-type it chose for the attachment.
    String contentType = email.addFileAttachment("qa_data/jpg/starfish.jpg");
    if (email.get_LastMethodSuccess() != true) {
        Log.i(TAG, email.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    contentType = email.addFileAttachment("qa_data/pdf/fishing.pdf");
    if (email.get_LastMethodSuccess() != true) {
        Log.i(TAG, email.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    // 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;
        }

    success = mailman.CloseSmtpConnection();
    if (success != true) {
        Log.i(TAG, "Connection to SMTP server not closed cleanly.");
        }

    Log.i(TAG, "Mail with attachments sent!");

  }

  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."
  }
}