Gmail 5.0 app fails with “Permission denied for the attachment” when it receives ACTION_SEND intent

Question

My app creates mails with attachments, and uses an intent with Intent.ACTION_SEND to launch a mail app.

It works with all the mail apps I tested with, e

Answer 1

I was having this problem and finally found an easy way to send email with attachment. Here is the code

public void SendEmail(){
    try {

        //saving image
        String randomNameOfPic = Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR+DateFormat.getTimeInstance().toString();
        File file = new File(ActivityRecharge.this.getCacheDir(), "slip"+  randomNameOfPic+ ".jpg");
        FileOutputStream fOut = new FileOutputStream(file);
        myPic.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.JPEG, 100, fOut);
        fOut.flush();
        fOut.close();
        file.setReadable(true, false);

        //sending email
        Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
        intent.setType("text/plain");
        intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL, new String[]{"zohabali5@gmail.com"});
        intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "Recharge Account");
        intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "body text");

        //Uri uri = Uri.parse("file://" + fileAbsolutePath);
        intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, Uri.fromFile(file));
        intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_GRANT_READ_URI_PERMISSION);
        startActivityForResult(Intent.createChooser(intent, "Send email..."),12);
    }catch (Exception e){
        Toast.makeText(ActivityRecharge.this,"Unable to open Email intent",Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
    }
}

In this code "myPic" is bitmap which was returned by camera intent