react-native-mail-launcher

react-native-mail-launcher

Launch mail app from react-native application

Getting started

$ npm install react-native-mail-launcher --save

Mostly automatic installation

$ react-native link react-native-mail-launcher

Android

• Open up android/app/src/main/java/[...]/MainActivity.java

• Add import com.reactlibrary.RNMailLauncherPackage; to the imports at the top of the file
• Add new RNMailLauncherPackage() to the list returned by the getPackages() method

• Append the following lines to android/settings.gradle:

  include ':react-native-mail-launcher'
  project(':react-native-mail-launcher').projectDir = new File(rootProject.projectDir, 	'../node_modules/react-native-mail-launcher/android')
  

• Insert the following lines inside the dependencies block in android/app/build.gradle:

    compile project(':react-native-mail-launcher')
  

iOS

We do not need a native module for iOS

Usage

import * as React from "react";
import { View, Button } from "react-native";
import launchMailApp from "react-native-mail-launcher";

export default class Example extends React.Component {
  openMail = () => {
    launchMailApp();
  };

  render() {
    return (
      <View>
        <Button onPress={this.openMail}>Go to mail client</Button>
      </View>
    );
  }
}