Opening text messaging app with attachment

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Opening text messaging app with attachment

I'm trying to start an Intent from a Unity app that will launch the text messaging app with an attachment.

I have been able to open the text messaging app but the attachment does not load properly, throwing the following exception:

'Could not determine type of file:///storage/emulated/0/Android/data/com.torpedoesaway.memematch/files/Gifit2MemeFiles/gifit2meme-2019-09-7-09-39-54.gif java.io.IOException: java.lang.RuntimeException: setDataSource failed: status = 0x80000000'

Note that I have also tried loading other images, such as pngs and jpgs, all throwing the same error.

This is my code:

Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SENDTO);
intent.setData(Uri.parse("smsto:" + recipient));
intent.putExtra("sms_body", message);
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, attachment);

if (intent.resolveActivity(activity.getPackageManager()) != null) {
   activity.startActivity(intent);
}

I tried playing around with the intent action as well as the setData/setType calls and in one instance I am able to open the chooser, select the messaging app and then the attachment is loaded properly. However, I want to open the text messaging app directly with the attachment working.

Thanks in advance for the help!

Edit:

How I'm making the call from Unity:

AndroidJavaClass Uri = new AndroidJavaClass("android.net.Uri");
        AndroidJavaObject uri = Uri.CallStatic<AndroidJavaObject>("parse", path);

        unityClass = new AndroidJavaClass("com.unity3d.player.UnityPlayer");
        pluginClass = new AndroidJavaObject("com.torpedosaway.giftomessage.Gif2Message");
        pluginClass.Call(
            "ComposeMmsMessage",
            "53876045",
            "message",
            uri,
            unityClass.GetStatic<AndroidJavaObject>("currentActivity"));

android

unity3d

android-intent

android-gradle-plugin

asked on Stack Overflow Jul 11, 2019 by

kUr4m4 • edited Jul 11, 2019 by

kUr4m4

3 Answers

Just before you call startActivity(intent);

Add these lines:

StrictMode.VmPolicy.Builder builder = StrictMode.VmPolicy.Builder();
StrictMode.setVmPolicy(builder.build());

Then call

startActivity(intent);

answered on Stack Overflow Aug 6, 2019 by

Ashu Tyagi

Here is a possible answer to your question (Note the additional line in the code and the conversion of ACTION_SENDTO to ACTION_SEND) -

public void composeMmsMessage(String message, Uri attachment, long phoneNumber) {
     Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
     intent.setData(Uri.parse("smsto:" + phoneNumber));  // This ensures only SMS apps respond
     intent.putExtra("sms_body", message); // For the text that you want to send
     intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, attachment); // For the atachment, which be a photo, video, file, etc. If you are using Firebase, you might want to take a look at the official Firebase Docs Page on this topic - https://firebase.google.com/docs/storage/unity/start
     if (intent.resolveActivity(getPackageManager()) != null) {
         startActivity(intent);
     }
 }

Here is the android mainfest -

<activity ...>
     <intent-filter>
         <action android:name="android.intent.action.SEND" />
         <data android:type="text/plain" />
         <data android:type="image/*" />
         <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
     </intent-filter>
</activity>

Hope this helps!!

Source - https://developer.android.com/

answered on Stack Overflow Jul 14, 2019 by

Gamemaker

try this

Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
    intent.putExtra("sms_body", "Hi how are you");
    intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, Uri.fromFile(new File("/sdcard/file.gif")));
    intent.setType("image/gif");
    startActivity(Intent.createChooser(intent,"Send"));

answered on Stack Overflow Aug 6, 2019 by

Silversky Technology

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