sending email programmatically using default user account

Question

I want to be able to send an email out of my app, based on the user pressing a button on my app\'s Activity. The email needs to be sent automatically by the application upon

Answer 1

To send in the background, see the first link at your right on the list of related questions:

You need to use an email API such as JavaMail:

Sending Email in Android using JavaMail API without using the default/built-in app

Update based on the comments:

There is no way to send an email silently, without either:

• letting the user know and accept it first (by using intents and an email provider)
• or asking for the username and password before and using an email API as above (the user will implicitly give you the approval to send/receive emails by entering those values)

And that is a very good thing! There are too many security concerns otherwise. If you ever find a way, please post it as a bug report in android.