I need to Create an iPad application for sending the selected photo as an attachment in an email.
The TO and CC address can be typed or must be able to select from contacts if they have email address added.
As I am a new guy in iPhone/iPad application can any one provide me a good way to do it. Any sample apps, paths to refer.
I recommend you take a look at MFMailComposeViewController in the documentation. The examples there will help. You'll want to include the MessageUI.framework as well. This should get you going with mailing within an app.
For the picture side, check out UIImagePickerControllerDelegate.
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I need to set a caption when I share a picture (QR code) from my app integrated with Facebook Messenger.
There is metadata NSString field but I don't see a way how to use it. Did anyone solve that problem?
metadata field You can see that we're passing options to the share
method. This contains two fields we want to send back to Messenger:
metadata and contextOverride.
The metadata field takes a NSString and is optional. It can be used to
give information about the content being shared. For example, you can
store a serialized JSON string. This is useful during replies as this
data is passed back to your app.
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/messenger/ios#bp_using_metadata
The metadata is meant for you, as a developer, to use. For example, when a user creates an image from your app you can attach metadata to it, at that point. This metadata is sent, in the background, together with the image to the recipient. When they decide to reply, using your app, you will receive the metadata there.
You can use this, for example, if in your app somebody selected a category to get the image. When you pass in this category in the metadata (which is up to you to format, but JSON is convenient), you get this metadata/JOSN in your app when the recipient replies. You can read the category and load the images on that category already.
The metadata does not set a caption to your image. Actually, there is no integrated way to add a caption to your images.
I would advise to generate the QR-code part of the image and the caption in your app. The image that you post to the Messenger API is thus a combination of the QR-code and a textual caption above or below it. Does that make sense?
ps: about the credible source; I'm a developer support engineer at Facebook :)
First of all, I'm working on an in-house app, so I don't need approval at App Store. I know it wouldn't ever be accepted, but it's a business rule our users share some content of the application, but with a default message and subject, so they can't edit these fields..
Until iOS 5 I was able to navigate by the view hierarchy and let the fields unneditable. But with iOS 6, and the mail on another proccess, I can't do it anymore.
I need to block the views for editing (I put a view over all the mail view, except the title bar, and it works, but when the user try to cancel the e-mail, my view is blocking the popover to delete or save draft too) or send e-mails without the UI (I was able to do it with Stealth Messenger based code (https://github.com/0xced/Stealth-Messenger/) at iOS 4 or 5, but now it doesn't work).
I tryed everything I could with private APIs and Objective-C runtime.. I can dismiss the view with sending e-mail ok, but the e-mail itself isn't sent.
Can anybody help me? Does anybody did it?
Thanks in advance..
Take a look at this: Send Email in Background from iOS
IOS doesn't support to mail in background. [...] As an alternate you
should implement the WebService for this[...]
Probably the best option is to utilise some server code and call that with NSURLRequest.
Hope that helps.
I do this in an app of mine. I have a simple PHP script on a webserver that uses the PearPHP mail modules to send SMTP mail. The PHP script takes a few incoming variables, like $toAddress, $subject, $message and then connects to the SMTP server and sends the mail out.
Unfortunately, you're not allowed to subclass the MFMailComposeViewController, and if you were using some sort of Invisible UIView to block fields, that was just a workaround that's probably been broken. (They did the same thing with being able to insert a "." on the NumberPad keyboard)
Ok, so I have successfully made my first in-app Email app using MFMAilComposer. I have the toRecipients textfield added, as well as subject and body etc. So I understand that the email will not send if I use the simulator and will send with an iPhone. However, when a person receives the email, how is that person supposed to know whom he received it from? With this in mind, a "From" field should be in order. I appreciate all answers, and thanks in advance :)
You don't have to handle this, the mail composer does it for you. When the composer is shown it defaults to the users default email account but if they want to choose which email address they are sending from they can simply tap their email and a list will expand allowing them to choose from which of their emails to send the message.
MFMailComposeViewController has this cool way of adding recipients. Either by picking from the address book or by autocompleting whatever the user types. Then the selected address is converted into this blue button-like thing. Backspacing deletes the blue thing/the address.
I would like to have exactly this way of recipients in my application to select some users. Does anybody know of an implementation with source available? Or has somebody a clear idea how Apple implemented it?
René
If you find yourself capable in translation objective-c to C# then you could always look at the Three20 library. They have implemented it in their TT Message Controller.
I want to attach a video and send email from my application.
I downloaded apples example code MailComposer. I compiled it. I did not get any errors or warnings.
I sent the mail to my mail id. But, I could not see any mail in my inbox. I am working on simulator.
I did not set any senders email id in simulator.
How can I know whether the code is working or not ?
Thank You.
The simulator cannot send email; nor can all devices, as you'll discover if you use the MFMailComposeViewController +canSendMail method—it returns NO if the device doesn't have a mail account set up. To quote the documentation:
You should call this method before attempting to display the mail composition interface. If it returns NO, you must not display the mail composition interface.