Android: ACTION_SEND_MULTIPLE with com.android.email

Question

I am trying to send a few attachments to an intent in an email application (not a Gmail application). I use:

Intent emailIntent = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_SEND_MULTIPLE);
emailIntent.setType("plain/text");
emailIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL,new String[] { "[e-mail]" });
emailIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT,"This is an email");
emailIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "This is the body");

File f1 = null;
File f2 = null;
try {
    f1 = new File("/sdcard/test");
    f2 = new File("/sdcard/test.1");
    FileWriter fw1 = new FileWriter(f1);
    FileWriter fw2 = new FileWriter(f2);
    fw1.write("this is some text");
    fw2.write("this is more text");
    fw1.close();
    fw2.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}

ArrayList<Uri> uris = new ArrayList<Uri>();
uris.add(Uri.fromFile(f1));
uris.add(Uri.fromFile(f2));
emailIntent.putParcelableArrayListExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM,uris);

startActivity(emailIntent);

When Gmail is used to handle Intent, it shows both attachments showing, and everything works fine. If an email application is used instead, attachments are not added. When using one Uri in EXTRA_STREAM, one attachment works, but using ArrayList does not work. I linked this code with other questions asked here, but none of them solves this problem. Can anyone help?

Answer 1

use

emailIntent.setType(" */ * ");

without spaces

. ACTION_SEND_MULTIPLE

Answer 2

, , .

emailIntent.setType("text/plain");

emailIntent.setType("plain/text");

, ...

Answer 3

Instead

emailIntent.setType ("plain / text");

use

emailIntent.setType ("Application / octet stream");

I don’t know why, but it works for me.