I want to send emails with attachments from my iphone application with custom UI. What can i use for this?
UPD: maybe it's possible to use some smtp library for this task? What can you advice?
you need to do the following
first add a framework by right clicking on project.
Add -> Existing Framework ->
library/frameworks/MessageUI.framework
then
in ViewController.h file
#import <MessageUI/MessageUI.h>
#interface ViewController : UIViewController <UITextFieldDelegate, MFMailComposeViewControllerDelegate>{
//....yor variables
}
ViewController.m file
- (void)viewDidLoad {
[super viewDidLoad];
self.title = #"Sample Email Application"; // title of navigation bar
self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = [[[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithBarButtonSystemItem:UIBarButtonSystemItemCompose target:self action:#selector(composeMail:)] autorelease]; // for adding a compose button
//in navigation bar.
//...your code
}
-(void) composeMail: (id) sender{
MFMailComposeViewController *picker = [[MFMailComposeViewController alloc]init];
picker.mailComposeDelegate = self;
[[picker navigationBar] setTintColor:[UIColor blackColor]];
[picker setSubject:#"Sample Email Application"];
[picker setMessageBody:[NSString stringWithFormat:#"Visit for more help %#. ",#"http://google.com"] isHTML:YES];
[self presentModalViewController:picker animated:YES];
[picker release];
}
- (void)mailComposeController:(MFMailComposeViewController*)controller didFinishWithResult:(MFMailComposeResult)result error:(NSError*)error
{
[controller dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];
}
You will need to compile in your own SMTP server, there are a few online that work. This is a pile of hurt. Just use the iPhones Message Composer which is standard. Unless you are building a email spam client this wont really work.
If you want to send email without using the native mail composer UI and without setting up your own SMTP server, you can check out PostageApp (http://postageapp.com/). There's an iOS / Mac API wrapper that lets you send email through the API. https://github.com/postageapp/postageapp-objc
(Disclosure: I work for PostageApp and developed the plugin.)
The open source three20 framework has designed it's own Mail capabilities via TTMessageController which mimics the original Mail app..You can use that as a starting point and then simply modify the UI of it to your needs.
E-mailing attachments is another story though...
More information: http://www.three20.info/overview
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I'm developing an app. I'm going to publish to an app store. But client needs to share this app with friends. I have a button to share my app. How to share the app? I read some doc they mentioned, use [[UIApplication SharedApplication] openURL:#" url"]. I don't have my app URL. Because I didn't submit the app. Is it possible to share my app?
If you want to know what the URL of your application will be before it has been submitted/approved, Apple provides a shorthand URL you can use, of the form:
http://itunes.com/apps/appname
For example:
http://itunes.com/apps/AngryBirds
If you want the specific URL with the application ID, you could submit v1.0.0 without the "Share" link, then immediately submit a 1.0.1 update with the link included.
Url can be generated via app id. Its the best way to do it coz if app name changes, url could change. But app id wont change.
You can get your app id on itunesConnect.apple.com or via itunes.
//https://itunes.apple.com/app/id_hereisyourappID
Let see how to do the sharing.
I will show you 4 ways to share your link. Via Facebook, Twitter, Mail and SMS.
For Facebook and Twitter.
Add Accounts and Social framework. And in your header import.
#import <Social/Social.h>
#import <Accounts/Accounts.h>
when you want to share link use the following code
SLComposeViewController *mySLComposerSheet = [[SLComposeViewController alloc] init];
mySLComposerSheet = [SLComposeViewController composeViewControllerForServiceType:SLServiceTypeFacebook];//for twitter use SLServiceTypeTwitter
[mySLComposerSheet addURL:[NSURL URLWithString:#"https://itunes.apple.com/app/id123456789"]];
[self presentViewController:mySLComposerSheet animated:YES completion:nil];
Lets do it with mail add MessageUI framework and import
#import <MessageUI/MessageUI.h>
And the delegate MFMailComposeViewControllerDelegate
in your code
MFMailComposeViewController* mailComposer = [[MFMailComposeViewController alloc] init];
[mailComposer setMailComposeDelegate:self];
[mailComposer setModalPresentationStyle:UIModalPresentationFormSheet];
[mailComposer setMessageBody:#"https://itunes.apple.com/app/id123456789" isHTML:NO];
[self presentViewController:mailComposer animated:YES completion:nil];
And add delegate method
- (void)mailComposeController:(MFMailComposeViewController*)controller didFinishWithResult:(MFMailComposeResult)result error:(NSError*)error
{
[controller dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES completion:nil];
}
You can create html content for mail body.
Lets share it via SMS
Add delegate MFMessageComposeViewControllerDelegate
MFMessageComposeViewController *controller = [[MFMessageComposeViewController alloc] init];
if([MFMessageComposeViewController canSendText])
{
controller.body = #"https://itunes.apple.com/app/id123456789";
controller.messageComposeDelegate = self;
[self presentViewController:controller animated:YES completion:nil];
}
And add delegate method.
-(void)messageComposeViewController:(MFMessageComposeViewController *)controller didFinishWithResult:(MessageComposeResult)result
{
[controller dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES completion:nil];
}
I hope this helps.
i need to send mail in my application.
for that my code is,
MFMailComposeViewController * mailView = [[MFMailComposeViewController alloc] init];
[mailView setMailComposeDelegate:self];
[mailView setSubject:#"Some Subject"];
[mailView setToRecipients:self.selectedArray];
[self presentModalViewController:mailView animated:YES];
[mailView release];
- (void)mailComposeController:(MFMailComposeViewController*)controller didFinishWithResult:(MFMailComposeResult)result error:(NSError*)error {
[controller dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];
}
for that i am getting the splash screen like this.
is it possible to send mail without this splash screen.
i need to send mail in background.
can any one please suggest me.
Thank u in advance.
if you don't want to use the composer you have to write your own smtp client.
I've never tried it but from what I've heard skpsmtpmessage should do the trick.
I'm having difficulties closing an email message that I have raised.
The email opens nicely, but once it is opened it will not close as the mailComposeController:mailer didFinishWithResult:result error:error handler never gets invoked.
As far as I can tell I have all the bits in place to be able to do this.
Anyone any ideas of what I can look at?
Here is how I raise the email:
-(IBAction)emailButtonPressed
{
NSString *text = #"My Email Text";
MFMailComposeViewController *mailer = [[MFMailComposeViewController alloc] init];
mailer.delegate = self;
[mailer setSubject:#"Note"];
[mailer setMessageBody:text isHTML:NO];
[self presentModalViewController:mailer animated:YES];
[mailer release];
}
and later in the class I have this code to handle the close (but it never gets called):
-(void)mailComposeController:(MFMailComposeViewController *)mailer didFinishWithResult:(MFMailComposeResult)result error:(NSError *)error
{
[self becomeFirstResponder];
[mailer dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];
}
My header file is defined as:
#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
#import <MessageUI/MessageUI.h>
#import <MessageUI/MFMailComposeViewController.h>
#interface myViewController : UIViewController <UIActionSheetDelegate, UIAlertViewDelegate, MFMailComposeViewControllerDelegate, UINavigationControllerDelegate>
Thanks
Iphaaw
You are setting the delegate wrong, the delegate property in MFMailComposeViewController is called mailComposeDelegate, so it should be:
mailer.mailComposeDelegate = self;
Another possible error I can see is calling dismissModalViewControllerAnimated: on mailer - you should send this message to the view controller who presented the mail interface - self in this case:
[self dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];
I wrote "possible error" because it might actually work if iOS routes the message through responder chain, anyway - the documentation says it should be send to presenter.
I add UITableViewController in UIScrollView. When I call
MFMailComposeViewController *picker = [[MFMailComposeViewController alloc] init];
picker.mailComposeDelegate = self;
[picker setSubject:#"Email"];
[picker setMessageBody:currentcelltext isHTML:NO];
[self presentModalViewController:picker animated:YES];
[picker release];
MFMailComposeViewController is coming in UIScrollView. So, I can't press cancel and send button.
How to fix it ?
I hope that you set MessageUI.framework in your xcode project..
After you have to set delegate in .h file..
than ,
you have to create one more method..
- (void)mailComposeController:(MFMailComposeViewController*)controller didFinishWithResult:(MFMailComposeResult)result error:(NSError*)error
{
[self becomeFirstResponder];
[self dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];
}
You might have fixed the issues.
This answer is for those who might come to this post with the expectation of answer.
To fix this you have to use delegation pattern. I assume all the pages in your scrollview are viewcontroller instances and scrollview is subview to viewcontroller.
This answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/626946/451867 can help you to implement delegate pattern in your project,
You can read developer docs for more info - docs
I am trying to send mail using MFMailComposeViewController. Everything works, except that mails do not get sent, and I always get MFMailComposeResultFailed.
Any pointers? I am NOT using the simulator, and sending mail does work from my device. I do have a connection (testing via Reachability), and [MFMailComposeViewController canSendMail] returns YES.
No compiler warnings in the project, no crashes...
It was a bug in IOS4.
I had both an Exchange mail account and an old, inactive IMAP account on my phone. Apparently, that leads to problems with iOS4. The mails actually were stuck in the outbox. Once I removed the inactive IMAP account, everything worked as expected.
Some readers might be facing this problem:
Make sure you implement the <MFMailComposeViewControllerDelegate> protocol
Here's the code:
// in TestViewController.h
#interface TestViewController : UIViewController<MFMailComposeViewControllerDelegate>
#end
// in TestViewController.m
#interface TestViewController ()
#end
#implementation
- (void) compose {
MFMailComposeViewController *picker = [[MFMailComposeViewController alloc] init];
picker.mailComposeDelegate = self;
[picker setSubject:#"Hello there"];
[picker setToRecipients:#[]];
// Fill out the email body text
NSString *emailBody = #"Hello, sending a message from my app";
[picker setMessageBody:emailBody isHTML:NO];
// use this function. presentModalViewController:... is deprecated
[self presentViewController:picker animated:YES completion:nil];
}
- (void)mailComposeController:(MFMailComposeViewController*)controller didFinishWithResult:(MFMailComposeResult)result error:(NSError*)error
{
[self dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES completion:nil];
}
#end
It's difficult to tell without seeing a code snippet, however you should check the following:
1) you have correctly set the MFMailComposeViewController's delegate and implemented its delegate methods;
2) you have set the mail subject using setSubject:
3) you have set the message body using setMessageBody:isHTML:
and optionally set an attach using addAttachmentData:mimeType:fileName:
4) you have presented to the user your mail compose view controller using something like
[self presentModalViewController:mcvc animated:YES];
Hope this helps.