I'm interested in placing a picture (along with some text) in a prepared email for the user to send off. Is there any way to use mailto: to do that?
No. The mailto: scheme does not support attachment. (See http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2368.html).
If you write an app you can attach an image with MFMailComposeViewController.
No, mailto: is just a HREF target for the A tag, and just instructs the operating system to open the mail browser to a specific location (with subject). To send a custom email on click of a link, you'll need server side code, such as PHP (sendmail) or Ruby (ActionMailer)
I think the best you can do is link to an image, like this:
test
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I've working on a program where an email is sent to a user, and a link to open the iPhone app is embedded in the email. The problem is that when the user clicks the link to open the app, mail has stripped out the colon, so the link no longer works!
The link being created basically looks like this:
#"<BR><BR><BR>Open App"
But the link, when clicked in the email, opens this in the browser instead:
myApp//
with no colon, so the app doesn't launch and the browser says it can't find the page.
Any ideas how to fix this? Thanks!
It just should be:
#"<BR><BR><BR>Open App"
As a workaround for custom urls being blocked by gmail, what you could do is set up something like http://myapp.mydomain.com/ up do redirect to myapp://... That way it'll look like a normal domain but open your app. On the plus you will be able to see how many people click your link, though on the down side it'll pop via Safari first.
Add 'http:' to all your images and urls, iphones dont recognize links w/o that. also use single quotes for them(').eg.
<a href='http://xyz.com'></a><img src='http://xyz.com/pqr/abc.jpg'></img>
I have received an email on my iPhone (with iOS 5.0.1) with an HTML attachment. The HTML attachment contains a form to fill out and submit. The problem is that submitting the form does not work. I click the Submit button and I get switched Safari, but the form information is not posted. Instead, the URL indicated by the form gets requested as via the GET method.
Is the problem that the Quick Look viewer is simply a passive viewer that does not do forms? I'd like to be able to open the attachment in Safari instead, but that does not appear to be an option. If a tap and hold the attachment, the only options I get are Quick Look and Dropbox.
Thanks!
After much research I've decided it simply does not work. Probably by design as a sort of security feature. I discovered a similar problem with Android phones.
I'm adding social media buttons to my website. Facebook like, Twitter tweet etc buttons were very easy.
However I also need an email the page (or rather a link to the page) button. I have trawled the internet but cannot find a simple and good implementation.
Ideally I'd like to be able to copy some reliable code, and have the button look in the same style as the ones on this page: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6920023/testbuttons.html
If anyone has done this before I would be very glad to hear from you :)
Thanks in advance.
Why not just use the AddThis service? You simply register, provide them with your website url and then select the social media / link mechanisms you would like to use on your site. At the end they provide you with a block of HTML code to drop into your site and low and behold, the buttons and appearance you selected will be present. You can also select mechanism such as pain old email when setting it up.
An example of it in place;
Here's the link: http://www.addthis.com/
As far as i know, you will have to use Mailto: apart from doing some deep Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail API integration. That's about as good as your going to get.
You can dynamically fill out subject, body, cc fields etc using javascript/php (or whatever you are using)
Has anyone been able to successfully embed a custom url scheme in an SMS (for example someApp://), such that the iPhone upon receiving the SMS creates a clickable link to launch an app?
There are various questions similar to this out here, however, I have not seen a working solution.
Thanks
In general a custom URL scheme is the way to solve this problem. However, this is complicated by the fact that in iOS 5 (and up through iOS 5.1.1 based on my recent testing), Apple introduced a bug into their Messages app so that custom URLs received via SMS are not recognized as links.
See Custom URL scheme not recognized as link in SMS app(only in iphone 4 iOS 5.0)
You have to create URL scheme which starts with http, https or www.
but http:// and https:// will not work in URL scheme, so If you want create a click able link, you have to set your URL scheme with www.
For eg. www.myapp then the link which can open your app will be www.myapp:// but in this case only www.myapp will be click able and :// will not be click able.
For this use this format for URL scheme
www.<characters1>.<characters2>
www.my.app //example
Now use this format to open your app with click able URL:-
www.<characters1>.<characters2>://<anyThingYouWantToAppend>
www.my.app://open //example
www..:// is enough to open your app, but we are appending anyThingYouWantToAppend to create click able URL.
In my case on iOS 6, the link is not blue if sent from a custom sender ie text instead of a number. As soon as we started using a shortnumber as sender instead of a custom name, it was recognized as a link.
Assuming you have defined a custom url scheme as someApp:// you create a link in an SMS as follows:
"someApp://Myurl"
I'm trying to include an image in an email, which is being sent using a mailto: URL in an iPhone app. The image shows up on the sender's mail app, but after being sent, the tag seems to be stripped out entirely. Here's a snippet, which has been escaped by hand:
[mailUrl appendString:#"&body=%3Cimg%20src%3D%22http%3A//stackoverflow.com/content/img/stackoverflow-logo.png%22%20/%3E"];
Short of using my own SMTP server, or sending them as attachments, is there any way to embed images in an email on the iPhone?
No there is no way to do it using the iPhone SDK up till version 2.2.1.
There is a way to do it with the 3.0 SDK but it is under NDA so I cannot discuss it here :(
http://webbuilders.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/url-must-be-url-encoded-inside-a-nsstring-in-objective-c/
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Luke, probably not useful to you anymore, but in researching this topic someone mentioned that wrapping the image with <b></b> prevents the iphone mail app from stripping the img tag. I tried it and it works for me.