Reputation: 18795
My Android 4+ app offers the user the possibility to setup a new user account for a web service. Once the user has sent the registration data, the new account is created and needs to be confirmed by clicking on a link which is sent to the user's e-mail address.
To make the registration as smooth as possible I would like to offer a "Go to your mail inbox" button once the data was submitted.
In iOS I can use the message://
URL scheme to do this. When my app calls such an URL iOS automatically switches to the Mail app.
How can this be done on Android?
Of course, I know about new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND)...
to create and send a new mail but this is not what I am looking for. The user should not send an e-mail but check his inbox for new emails.
EDIT:
This is not a duplicate of the linked question since this is not about starting a specific app (e.g. "com.google.android.gm") but the systems default mail app.
Upvotes: 1
Views: 1946
Reputation: 1730
You can use the following:
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_MAIN);
intent.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_APP_EMAIL);
getActivity().startActivity(intent);
From the documentation:
Used with ACTION_MAIN to launch the email application. The activity should be able to send and receive email.
Upvotes: 4
Reputation: 13629
You could use Intent.ACTION_VIEW
like below:
final Intent emailLauncher = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
emailLauncher.setType("message/rfc822");
try{
startActivity(emailLauncher);
}catch(ActivityNotFoundException e){
}
Upvotes: 1