Adobe AIR Development

[dsokhan]

Hi community,

In light of the latest OS2.0 update, I would like to raise the painful question about Playbook native e-mail client capabilities. Is there a way to integrate sharing through e-mail from AIR application? Is there some API?

Ported Android application with sharing via e-mail works perfectly

And I realy want to add this functionality to air playbook app.

Thank you.

[steve_web · Accepted solution]

I haven't tested this, but as a potential workaround (should there not be a native/AIR way to do this)... an HTML mailto: link works to launch the Messages app... so you might be able to use navigateToURL to go to:  "mailto:someone@example.com?subject=Woah!&body=Everybody was Kung Fu fighting!"

[dsokhan]

Its working!!!

Thank you very much!!!

Only one row of code: 

navigateToURL(new URLRequest("mailto:someone@example.com?subject=Woah!&body=Everybody was Kung Fu fighting!"));

It opens native e-mail client window like I need.

Thanks again.

[zezke]

I am trying to send a rather large text (logfile), but it seems like I am reaching the limit of the length of an URL. Any chance I could attach the logfile?

[Marker]

Recall that you could with certain mailclients could get away with this

mailto:name@domain.com?Subject=SubjTxt&Body=Bod_Txt&Attachment=""file.txt""

Maybe it will work w Messenger as well??

[zezke]

Just tried that, no dice unfortunately...

[jtegen]

"attachment" is not an official standard, but many clients support it. Try giving the full native file path to the file, just to make certain it is not supported.

[zezke]

Thank you for the suggestion jtegen, but it does not work either unfortunately. What is the maximum length of an URLRequest?

[jtegen]

Not certain. From what I could find, it varied from 256 to 2048, so it might be implementation specific. Maybe try a POST request, but it is uncertain how the device is intercepting this information and the email client would check POST as well as GET information.