How to send emails from my Android application?

The best (and easiest) way is to use an Intent:

Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
i.setType("message/rfc822");
i.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL  , new String[]{"recipient@example.com"});
i.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "subject of email");
i.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT   , "body of email");
try {
    startActivity(Intent.createChooser(i, "Send mail..."));
} catch (android.content.ActivityNotFoundException ex) {
    Toast.makeText(MyActivity.this, "There are no email clients installed.", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}

Otherwise you'll have to write your own client.

Sending email can be done with Intents which will require no configuration. But then it will require user interaction and the layout will be a bit restricted.

Build and sending a more complex email without user interaction entails building your own client. The first thing is that the Sun Java API for email are unavailable. I have had success leveraging the Apache Mime4j library to build email. All based on the docs at nilvec.

Here is the sample working code which opens mail application in android device and auto-filled with To address and Subject in the composing mail.

protected void sendEmail() {
    Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SENDTO);
    intent.setData(Uri.parse("mailto:feedback@gmail.com"));
    intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "Feedback");
    if (intent.resolveActivity(getPackageManager()) != null) {
        startActivity(intent);
    }
}

I used this code to send mail by launching default mail app compose section directly.

    Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SENDTO);
    i.setType("message/rfc822"); 
    i.setData(Uri.parse("mailto:"));
    i.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL  , new String[]{"test@gmail.com"});
    i.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "Subject");
    i.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT   , "body of email");
    try {
        startActivity(Intent.createChooser(i, "Send mail..."));
    } catch (android.content.ActivityNotFoundException ex) {
        Toast.makeText(this, "There are no email clients installed.", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
    }

Use this for send email...

boolean success = EmailIntentBuilder.from(activity)
    .to("support@example.org")
    .cc("developer@example.org")
    .subject("Error report")
    .body(buildErrorReport())
    .start();

use build gradle :

compile 'de.cketti.mailto:email-intent-builder:1.0.0'

 Intent emailIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SENDTO, Uri.fromParts(
            "mailto","ebgsoldier@gmail.com", null));
    emailIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "Forgot Password");
    emailIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "this is a text ");
    startActivity(Intent.createChooser(emailIntent, "Send email..."));

This is the most clean way of sending email on Android.

 val intent = Intent(Intent.ACTION_SENDTO).apply {
    data = Uri.parse("mailto:")
    putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL, arrayOf("email@example.com"))
    putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "Subject")
    putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "Email body")
}
if (intent.resolveActivity(packageManager) != null) {
    startActivity(intent)
}

You also need to specify in your manifest (outside your application tag) the query for applications that handle email (mailto)

<queries>
    <intent>
        <action android:name="android.intent.action.SENDTO" />
        <data android:scheme="mailto" />
    </intent>
</queries>

If you need to send HTML text in the email body, please replace the "Email body" with your email string, something like this (please beware that Html.fromHtml maybe deprecated this was only for show you how to do it)

Html.fromHtml(
    StringBuilder().append("<b>Hello world</b>").toString()
)

This method work for me. It open Gmail app (if installed) and set mailto.

public void openGmail(Activity activity) {
    Intent emailIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
    emailIntent.setType("text/plain");
    emailIntent.setType("message/rfc822");
    emailIntent.setData(Uri.parse("mailto:"+activity.getString(R.string.mail_to)));
    emailIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, activity.getString(R.string.app_name) + " - info ");
    final PackageManager pm = activity.getPackageManager();
    final List<ResolveInfo> matches = pm.queryIntentActivities(emailIntent, 0);
    ResolveInfo best = null;
    for (final ResolveInfo info : matches)
        if (info.activityInfo.packageName.endsWith(".gm") || info.activityInfo.name.toLowerCase().contains("gmail"))
            best = info;
    if (best != null)
        emailIntent.setClassName(best.activityInfo.packageName, best.activityInfo.name);
    activity.startActivity(emailIntent);
}

/**
 * Will start the chosen Email app
 *
 * @param context    current component context.
 * @param emails     Emails you would like to send to.
 * @param subject    The subject that will be used in the Email app.
 * @param forceGmail True - if you want to open Gmail app, False otherwise. If the Gmail
 *                   app is not installed on this device a chooser will be shown.
 */
public static void sendEmail(Context context, String[] emails, String subject, boolean forceGmail) {

    Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SENDTO);
    i.setData(Uri.parse("mailto:"));
    i.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL, emails);
    i.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, subject);
    if (forceGmail && isPackageInstalled(context, "com.google.android.gm")) {
        i.setPackage("com.google.android.gm");
        i.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
        context.startActivity(i);
    } else {
        try {
            context.startActivity(Intent.createChooser(i, "Send mail..."));
        } catch (ActivityNotFoundException e) {
            Toast.makeText(context, "No email app is installed on your device...", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
        }
    }
}

/**
 * Check if the given app is installed on this devuice.
 *
 * @param context     current component context.
 * @param packageName The package name you would like to check.
 * @return True if this package exist, otherwise False.
 */
public static boolean isPackageInstalled(@NonNull Context context, @NonNull String packageName) {
    PackageManager pm = context.getPackageManager();
    if (pm != null) {
        try {
            pm.getPackageInfo(packageName, 0);
            return true;
        } catch (PackageManager.NameNotFoundException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
    return false;
}

Try this:

String mailto = "mailto:bob@example.org" +
    "?cc=" + "alice@example.com" +
    "&subject=" + Uri.encode(subject) +
    "&body=" + Uri.encode(bodyText);

Intent emailIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SENDTO);
emailIntent.setData(Uri.parse(mailto));

try {
    startActivity(emailIntent);
} catch (ActivityNotFoundException e) {
    //TODO: Handle case where no email app is available
}

The above code will open the users favourite email client prefilled with the email ready to send.

Source

Kotlin version which only shows Email clients (no contacts etc.):

    with(Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND)) {
        type = "message/rfc822"
        data = Uri.parse("mailto:")
        putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL, arrayOf("user@example.com"))
        putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT,"YOUR SUBJECT")
        putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "YOUR BODY")
        try {
            startActivity(Intent.createChooser(this, "Send Email with"))
        } catch (ex: ActivityNotFoundException) {
            // No email clients found, might show Toast here
        }
    }

The code below works on Android 10 devices and higher. It also sets the subject, body and recipient(To).

val uri = Uri.parse("mailto:$EMAIL")
                .buildUpon()
                .appendQueryParameter("subject", "App Feedback")
                .appendQueryParameter("body", "Body Text")
                .appendQueryParameter("to", EMAIL)
                .build()

            val emailIntent = Intent(Intent.ACTION_SENDTO, uri)

            startActivity(Intent.createChooser(emailIntent, "Select app"))

import androidx.core.app.ShareCompat
import androidx.core.content.IntentCompat

ShareCompat.IntentBuilder(this)
                .setType("message/rfc822")
                .setEmailTo(arrayOf(email))
                .setStream(uri)
                .setSubject(subject)
                .setText(message + emailMessage)
                .startChooser()