An Email plugin for use in your NativeScript app.
You can use it to compose emails, edit the draft manually, and send it.
Make sure you're running NativeScript 2.3.0 or up. Do npm install -g nativescript if not.
The run the following command from the root of your project:
tns plugin add nativescript-email
To use this plugin you must first require/import it:
import * as email from "nativescript-email";
// or
import { compose } from "nativescript-email";
// or even
import { compose as composeEmail } from "nativescript-email";var email = require("nativescript-email"); email.available((avail: boolean) => {
console.log("Email available? " + avail);
}) email.available().then(function(avail) {
console.log("Email available? " + avail);
}) // let's first create a File object using the tns file module
var fs = require("file-system");
var appPath = fs.knownFolders.currentApp().path;
var logoPath = appPath + "/res/telerik-logo.png";
email.compose({
subject: "Yo",
body: "Hello <strong>dude</strong> :)",
to: ['eddyverbruggen@gmail.com', 'to@person2.com'],
cc: ['ccperson@somewhere.com'],
bcc: ['eddy@combidesk.com', 'eddy@x-services.nl'],
attachments: [
{
fileName: 'arrow1.png',
path: 'base64://iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABYAAAAoCAYAAAD6xArmAAAACXBIWXMAABYlAAAWJQFJUiTwAAAAHGlET1QAAAACAAAAAAAAABQAAAAoAAAAFAAAABQAAAB5EsHiAAAAAEVJREFUSA1iYKAimDhxYjwIU9FIBgaQgZMmTfoPwlOmTJGniuHIhlLNxaOGwiNqNEypkwlGk9RokoIUfaM5ijo5Clh9AAAAAP//ksWFvgAAAEFJREFUY5g4cWL8pEmT/oMwiM1ATTBqONbQHA2W0WDBGgJYBUdTy2iwYA0BrILDI7VMmTJFHqv3yBUEBQsIg/QDAJNpcv6v+k1ZAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC',
mimeType: 'image/png'
},
{
fileName: 'telerik-logo.png',
path: logoPath,
mimeType: 'image/png'
}],
appPickerTitle: 'Compose with..' // for Android, default: 'Open with..'
}).then(
function() {
console.log("Email composer closed");
}, function(err) {
console.log("Error: " + err);
});Full attachment support has been added to 1.3.0 per the example above.
Since 1.4.0 the promise will be rejected in case a file can't be found.
Check out this tutorial (YouTube) to learn how to use this plugin in a NativeScript-Angular app.
On iOS you can't use the simulator to test the plugin because of an iOS limitation.
To prevent a crash this plugin returns false when available is invoked on the iOS sim.