When writing a native IOS app for example, you can open the native "Mail" app from a button click within an app. The email will e up pre-filled with certain data (send-to address, subject, body, etc.).

How can I simulate this across all devices using HTML5/Javascript in my cordova app?

When writing a native IOS app for example, you can open the native "Mail" app from a button click within an app. The email will e up pre-filled with certain data (send-to address, subject, body, etc.).

How can I simulate this across all devices using HTML5/Javascript in my cordova app?

• javascript
• html
• cordova

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• you can also try this plugin – turtle Commented Nov 26, 2014 at 5:52

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Using HTML5, you can do this with an anchor tag in your .html file. Here is an example:

<a href="mailto:[email protected]?subject=Example Subject 
&body=Thanks for the help!">Send an email</a>

This will work across all devices and resort to native functionality to handle the email task.

Also, since cordova 3.6.3 you alo need to include the following permission in your config.xml.

<access origin="mailto:*" launch-external="yes"/>