How do you open the default email app on an iPhone with Flutter?

ios email dart flutter

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Solution 1

The url_launcher plugin does that

mailto:<email address>?subject=<subject>&body=<body>

Create email to in the default email app

Solution 2

You need two plugins: android_intent and url_launcher

if (Platform.isAndroid) {
  AndroidIntent intent = AndroidIntent(
    action: 'android.intent.action.MAIN',
    category: 'android.intent.category.APP_EMAIL',
  );
  intent.launch().catchError((e) {
    ;
  });
} else if (Platform.isIOS) {
  launch("message://").catchError((e){
    ;
  });
}

Solution 3

use url_launcher plugin url_launcher

Future<void> _launched;

Future<void> _openUrl(String url) async {
    if (await canLaunch(url)) {
      await launch(url);
    } else {
      throw 'Could not launch $url';
    }
}

Then for Phone

setState(() {
  _launched = _openUrl('tel:${+917600896744}');
});

for email

setState(() {
  _launched = _openUrl('mailto:${[email protected]}'');
});

Update July 2021

Add Following Lines in Manifest File

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES" />

<queries>
<intent>
  <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
  <data android:scheme="https" />
</intent>
<intent>
  <action android:name="android.intent.action.DIAL" />
  <data android:scheme="tel" />
</intent>
<intent>
  <action android:name="android.intent.action.SEND" />
  <data android:mimeType="*/*" />
</intent>

Solution 4

launch("mailto:<email address>?subject=<subject>&body=<body>");

use url_launcher package

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Updated on March 22, 2022

Comments

Peter Birdsall about 2 years

I want to make a Flutter app and one of the requirements is to open the native email client on the Android or iPhone device. I do NOT wish to create a new email, just open the email app. I would like to be able to open the email client with platform generic code if possible, if not I would like to know what would be required on the iOS side. I am not looking for the Send Email Intent, as I know there is a plugin in Flutter for that. Being a Android Developer I believe I know how to call an Intent from Flutter for that Implicit Intent, if I have to go that way, but I don't have the familiarity with iOS.
Peter Birdsall almost 6 years

I don't want to create a new email, I just want to open the default email app.
Günter Zöchbauer almost 6 years

Sorry, don't know about that
Alejandro Iván almost 6 years

Try message: instead of mailto: ...
Günter Zöchbauer over 5 years

You probably need to use Uri.encodeFull('It is not ok') or Uri.encodeComponent('It isnot ok') and pass the resulting value instead.
jbx over 3 years

The op clearly said he doesn't want to send an email.
jbx over 3 years

This will send an email, not what the op wants.
zkon over 3 years

The library allows you to open the email app without sending the email.
Volodymyr Bobyr about 3 years

@AlejandroIván is that just for iOS?
Gabriel Aguirre almost 3 years

On Android, this will open the email app inside your app. To open it in a new window add: flags: [Flag.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK]
scienticious almost 3 years

AppAvailability is an outdated plugin, if you use this it will generate when you releasing the build . So please avoid using this plugin
Abdullah Khan almost 3 years

launch("message://") is not working in Simulator
JJuice over 2 years

android_intent has been replaced by android_intent_plus
Karolina Hagegård almost 2 years

launch is now deprecated. Now, you should use launchUrl and it doesn't take a String, it takes a Uri(), and I'm struggling with how to write that Uri correctly!... I've made it open in the browser by using Uri.https(), but not in the e-mail app... There is the Uri(path: 'String_path') but that String can't contain a colon, so I can't write "mailto:".... Help?
Karolina Hagegård almost 2 years

@zkon , I'd recommend you edit your answer to include exactly how to open the email app without sending the email! Otherwise, your answer will get downvoted, because ppl believe (from reading the package documentation) that the package can only send emails. Reading the documentation also takes a lot more time than if you would just write the relevant code here! So that would be very helpful, since you apparently know it.