Cordova - Open native email app from button click

Question

When writing a native IOS app for example, you can open the native "Mail" app from a button click within an app. The email will come up pre-filled with certain data (send-to address, subject, body, etc.).

How can I simulate this across all devices using HTML5/Javascript in my cordova app?

Answer 1

Using HTML5, you can do this with an anchor tag in your .html file. Here is an example:

<a href="mailto:email@gmail.com?subject=Example Subject 
&body=Thanks for the help!">Send an email</a>

This will work across all devices and resort to native functionality to handle the email task.

Answer 2

另外，从cordova 3.6.3开始，您还需要在config.xml中包含以下权限。

<access origin="mailto:*" launch-external="yes"/>