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Ionic Cookbook

You're reading from   Ionic Cookbook Over 35 exciting recipes to spice up your application development with Ionic

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785287978
Length 264 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Hoc Phan Hoc Phan
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Creating Our First App with Ionic FREE CHAPTER 2. Managing States and Navigation 3. Adding Device Features Support 4. Offline Data Storage 5. Handling Gestures and Events 6. App Theme Customization 7. Extending Ionic with Your Own Components 8. User Registration and Authentication 9. Saving and Loading Data Using Firebase 10. Finalizing Your Apps for Different Platforms Index

Composing an email with an attachment from an app

Your use case may include the ability to let users compose their own email with populated fields. For example, after users perform some specific actions, the app automatically fills in the email receiver, subject, and body to have users send it off. This functionality makes it easy for users so that they don't have to manually compose the email. Many apps use this technique for the tell a friend feature.

The code example in this section will use Cordova's Email Composer plugin so that your Ionic app has a standard interface to communicate with the native device feature. You will understand how to attach files such as images to user emails. The image could be a local file in the app filesystem or Base64 string, which is a result from the device camera. The body could even contain HTML tags. Here is the screenshot of the app you are going to build:

Composing an email with an attachment from an app

However, keep in mind that there is no way to detect that the e-mail has been sent successfully...

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