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Get Contents of a T-Mobile Text Message (as Email)

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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;

    // First, for the purpose of understanding the structure of the MIME,
    // let's load the MIME into a Chilkat MIME object and examine the MIME structure.
    CkMime mime = new CkMime();

    success = mime.LoadMimeFile("qa_data/eml/TMobileTextMsg.eml");
    // Show the MIME structure in text format (as opposed to XML format).
    Log.i(TAG, mime.getStructure("text"));

    // The MIME structure for our test email looks like this:
    // multipart/related
    //     text/html
    //     text/plain
    //     image/gif
    //     image/gif
    //     image/gif

    // The HTML part is not considered a "related item" because the related items
    // are defined as being related to the HTML part.  Therefore, we should always
    // expect to find a text/html part under a multipart/related.  The HTML parts
    // is simply the HTML body, and the other parts are the related items.
    // If the text/plain part was to be considered as an alternative body,
    // then a properly structured email would include a multipart/alternative structure.

    CkEmail email = new CkEmail();

    success = email.LoadEml("qa_data/eml/TMobileTextMsg.eml");

    // We should see 4 related items.
    Log.i(TAG, "Num Related Items = " + String.valueOf(email.get_NumRelatedItems()));
    // There should be 0 attachments.  
    Log.i(TAG, "Num Attachments = " + String.valueOf(email.get_NumAttachments()));

    // Find the indices of the text/plain related part, and the text/html related part
    int i = 0;
    int numRelatedItems = email.get_NumRelatedItems();
    CkStringBuilder sbContentType = new CkStringBuilder();
    while (i < numRelatedItems) {
        sbContentType.Append(email.getRelatedContentType(i));
        Log.i(TAG, String.valueOf(i) + ": " + sbContentType.getAsString());
        if (sbContentType.ContentsEqual("text/plain",false)) {
            Log.i(TAG, "---- text/plain part:");
            Log.i(TAG, email.getRelatedString(i,"utf-8"));
            }

        sbContentType.Clear();
        i = i + 1;
        }


  }

  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."
  }
}