Premise of EmailIntentBuilder no longer valid?

[xrad]

AFAIU, one of the premises EIB was built for was the lack of documentation of the various commonly used extras and ACTION_SENDTO. However, I just stumbled across this:

https://developer.android.com/guide/components/intents-common.html#Email

What do you think?

[cketti]

The documentation for ACTION_SENDTO does not contain information about any extras.

You can of course follow the approach in the link you posted. But you'd be gambling that all the email apps used by your users support these extras.

[xrad]

I understand what you're saying and I'm not saying EIB is obsolete. However, given the offical(!) information at the link I posted I'd be inclined to argue that lack of any(!) extras being mention with ACTION_SENDTO documentation is just a major docbug. Probably since they never cared much about email in the first place, otherwise we'd not have THREE different actions for the basically just variations on the theme.

Admittedly I'm a bit worried atm because of the other issue I brought up, but I must say the official snipped in the guide got me thinking.

[cketti]

You could do some compatibility testing. I'd say the chances are pretty high that most email apps support ACTION_SENDTO with the email extras.

But I wouldn't bet on the documentation getting changed anytime soon. See https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/36946106

[xrad]

Thanks. I left a comment there. Closing this as obsolete is ridicoulous, even though this was maybe just janitorial since the issue is too old for them to care.