Sending an email through app; any way will do - iphone

Here is the code that I have for my cell of my UITableView:
forKeys:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:#"Title", #"Cells", #"Footer Title", nil]] autorelease];
[tableView1CellData addObject:sectionContainer_3];
NSMutableArray *cells_4 = [[[NSMutableArray alloc] init] autorelease];
NSDictionary *cellContainer_4_1 = [[[NSDictionary alloc] initWithObjects:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:#"Support", #"", #"", #"", #"", #"1", nil]
What would I have to add so that when the cell is tapped, it happened up a MailView in the app (preferably) but I understand that the easiest way is to just use the HTML "mailto" ? I'm brand new to Objective-C, but I am able to edit C and C++, so I think that I can work in any answer. Thanks in advance!
P.S. Posting this from iPhone (just thought of asking question) so sorry if the code isn't highlighted, but i tried to space it out.

Check out the documentation on MFMailComposeViewController. You can present a mail compose view, user will fill it out and send the mail.

1.Add the Message UI Framework
2.You should have registered a delegate for the UITableView. See a UITableView tutorial if needed.
3.Implement the following method:
- (void)tableView: (UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath: (NSIndexPath *) indexPath {
...
}
4.Inside the method use MFMailComposeViewController to send the email. Example usage:
MFMailComposeViewController* controller = [[MFMailComposeViewController alloc] init];
controller.mailComposeDelegate = self;
[controller setSubject:#"My Subject"];
[controller setMessageBody:#"Hello there." isHTML:NO];
if (controller) [self presentModalViewController:controller animated:YES];
[controller release];
Read More: How can I send mail from an iPhone application
UITableView/UITableViewCell tap event response?

And yes, you can use the mailto: URL thing... but #jer's answer is the one I would prefer to do myself, as a developer.
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:#"mailto://info#iosdevelopertips.com"]];
(details for the above can be found at http://iosdevelopertips.com/cocoa/launching-other-apps-within-an-iphone-application.html)

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Send SMS iPhone

I was trying to send SMS from within my app. I wrote this piece of code but it seems not to work.
No crash, no error log, simply nothing happen (of course I tried to log canSendText and the result is 1).
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];
messageComposer = [[MFMessageComposeViewController alloc] init];
if ([MFMessageComposeViewController canSendText]) {
[messageComposer setBody:#"Messaggio generato da SMSTest"];
[messageComposer setRecipients:[NSArray arrayWithObject:#"3333333333"]];
[messageComposer setDelegate:self];
[self presentModalViewController:messageComposer animated:YES];
}
}
Can anyone explain me what I'm doing wrong?
The problem is that presentModalViewController does not work in viewDidLoad yet as the view is loaded but might not even be on screen yet. If you put your code in viewWillAppear:animated, this should work.
Edit: As per Saphrosit's comment: viewDidAppear: is an even better place to do this.
I use this successfully:
MFMessageComposeViewController *controller = [[MFMessageComposeViewController alloc] init];
controller.messageComposeDelegate = self;
controller.modalPresentationStyle = UIModalPresentationFullScreen;
[self presentModalViewController:controller animated:YES];
Note that it's messageComposeDelegate, not 'delegate' as you do.
Tim
When i try the code on simulator i get an UIAlert saying text messaging is not available, because simulator can´t send messages. Have you checked that your header file is a delegate of MFMessageComposeViewControllerDelegate ?
YourClassName : UIViewController <MFMessageComposeViewControllerDelegate>
//try this ... it will run ..
MFMessageComposeViewController *controller = [[[MFMessageComposeViewController alloc] init] autorelease];
if([MFMessageComposeViewController canSendText])
{
controller.body = #"Hello from Kartik";
controller.recipients = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:#"12356478", nil];
controller.messageComposeDelegate = self;
[self presentModalViewController:controller animated:YES];
}

MFMailComposer Exec_bad_access - might it have something to do with initialization

In a view controller i have a button which internally calls an IBAction and that internally calls the
[self showEmailModalView:FinalEmail];
now ... in the showEmailModalView i have
-(void) showEmailModalView:(NSString *)email{
MFMailComposeViewController *mvc =[[[MFMailComposeViewController alloc] init]autorelease];
mvc.mailComposeDelegate = self;
NSArray *mails = [[NSArray arrayWithObject:email]autorelease];
[mvc setToRecipients:mails];
NSString*emailBody =[NSString stringWithFormat:#" "];
[mvc setMessageBody:emailBody isHTML:YES];
mvc.navigationBar.barStyle = UIBarStyleBlack;
[[self navigationController] presentModalViewController:mvc animated:YES];
}
and then
-(void)mailComposeController:(MFMailComposeViewController*)controller didFinishWithResult:(MFMailComposeResult)result error:(NSError*)error
{
[[self navigationController] dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];
}
Now it works alright... for all the scenarios of email or delete or anything like that but right after completion of the code the simulator just throws a exec_bad_access and then does nothing.... can you help.
PS: i also found out that that when ever you are giving a release to the mvc as declared above the error is called. ant thoughts.
Update:
I did install the app with only one change... i initialized the mvc in the header file and then just use the same statement. so now i am not getting the exec_bad_access errors anymore... i think it was frightened of the nsZOMBIES....Haha... thanks for your Help and support.. guys... Both of you....
You shouldn't autorelease this object, it's already autoreleased :
NSArray *mails = [[NSArray arrayWithObject:email ]autorelease];
Instead of change to:
NSArray *mails = [NSArray arrayWithObject:email];

Iphone 4 MFmailcompose viewcontroller crash

Iphone 4 MFMailComposeViewController
MFMailComposeViewController* controller = [[MFMailComposeViewController alloc] init];
controller.mailComposeDelegate = self;
[controller setMessageBody:#"Welcome" isHTML:NO];
[controller release];
My app to be crash.
Wat i did wrong
Regards,
Arun
The mail composer will crash if the user is unable to send mail. First check to see if the user is able to send mail before trying to instantiate a MFMailComposeViewController.
if([MFMailComposeViewController canSendMail])
{
MFMailComposeViewController* controller = [[[MFMailComposeViewController alloc] init] autorelease];
//...
}
#Arun , First up all configure the email settings in your device
As Akira says, you can use MFMailComposeViewController after you set up the device's e-mail settings.
init failed, because not iOS mail-application's setting.
MFMailComposeViewController* controller = [[[MFMailComposeViewController alloc] init] autorelease];
if (!controller) // failed
return; // auto view alert, "not mail setting..."
controller.mailComposeDelegate = self;

Sending sms programmatically code Problem

I am writing code to send sms programatically
Program crashes at second last line.
MFMessageComposeViewController *picker = [[MFMessageComposeViewController alloc] init];
picker.messageComposeDelegate = self;
picker.recipients = [NSArray arrayWithObject:#"123456789"]; // your recipient number or self for testing
picker.body = #"test from OS4";
[self presentModalViewController:picker animated:YES];
[picker release];
I assume it's safe to say that it implements
UIViewController <MFMessageComposeViewControllerDelegate>
In which case, I would recommend going back to http://iphonesdkdev.blogspot.com/2010/04/mfmessagecomposeviewcontroller-sample.html, copying their example and progressing from there.

MFMessageComposeViewController alloc returns nil

In my application, MFMailComposeViewController works fine but creating a new instance of MFMessageComposeViewController fails.
Here is the code for both:
-( IBAction)sendSMS: (id)sender
{
MFMessageComposeViewController *picker = [[[MFMessageComposeViewController alloc] init] autorelease];
picker.messageComposeDelegate = self;
NSArray *toRecipients = [NSArray arrayWithObject: cell.currentTitle ];
picker.recipients = toRecipients;
[self presentModalViewController:picker animated:YES];
}
-( IBAction)sendEmail: (id)sender
{
MFMailComposeViewController *picker = [[[MFMailComposeViewController alloc] init] autorelease];
picker.mailComposeDelegate = self;
NSArray *toRecipients = [NSArray arrayWithObject: email.currentTitle ];
[picker setToRecipients:toRecipients];
[self presentModalViewController:picker animated:YES];
}
Its seemingly obvious that everything is linking correctly because the email view controller works fine. Is there something I am missing maybe configuration wise?
Have you checked +[MFMessageComposeViewController canSendText]?
From the MFMessageComposeViewController Class Reference,
Before presenting a message composition view, call the canSendText class method to ensure that the user’s device is appropriately configured. Do not attempt to present a message composition view if the canSendText method returns NO. If SMS delivery isn’t available, you can notify the user or simply disable the SMS features in your application.
Starting in iOS 5, you can register to be notified of changes to the availability of text message sending by way of the MFMessageComposeViewControllerTextMessageAvailabilityDidChangeNotification notification.
Reasons it might be returning nil:
Device isn't running iOS 4.
Device is an iPod Touch/iPad without iMessage enabled.
No SIM card? (The view now shows in iOS 6; the app is not notified of the message send failure.)
"Device" is actually the simulator. (Perhaps this works in iOS 6 too.)
Similarly, [[MFMailComposeViewController alloc] init] returns nil when no mail accounts are enabled (you can quickly test this by disabling accounts in Settings), but also shows a "No mail accounts configured" alert for you. MFMessageComposeViewController does not do this.