An easy way to open an email app of the user's choice, based on the mail apps they have installed on their device. Very helpful for magic link logins.
Currently supported apps:
- Apple Mail
- Gmail
- Inbox
- Spark
- Airmail
- Outlook
- Yahoo Mail
- Superhuman
- Yandex
- ProtonMail
- Fastmail
yarn add react-native-email-link
This package works with autolinking on RN>=0.60. If you're using an earlier version of React Native, please install version 1.4.0
of the library, or
check out the legacy rnpm branch.
Based on the platforms your app supports, you also need to:
iOS β Update Info.plist
To allow your app to detect if any of the mailbox apps are installed, an extra step is required on iOS. Your app needs to provide the LSApplicationQueriesSchemes
key inside ios/{my-project}/Info.plist
to specify the URL schemes with which the app can interact.
Just add this in your Info.plist
depending on which apps you'd like to support. Omitting these might mean that the library can't detect some of the mail apps installed by the user.
<key>LSApplicationQueriesSchemes</key>
<array>
<string>mailto</string>
<string>message</string>
<string>readdle-spark</string>
<string>airmail</string>
<string>ms-outlook</string>
<string>googlegmail</string>
<string>inbox-gmail</string>
<string>ymail</string>
<string>superhuman</string>
<string>yandexmail</string>
<string>fastmail</string>
<string>protonmail</string>
<string>szn-email</string>
</array>
Expo β Enable Config Plugin
To allow the library to work with Expo you need to enable the config plugin. This plugin will automatically configure your Expo application with the correct settings for this library to function.
To enable the config plugin, add it to the plugins
array inside your app.config.js
/app.config.json
. For example:
{
"name": "my app",
"plugins": ["react-native-email-link"]
}
Want this library to work on Android too? Because the library uses native code on Android you need to follow Expo's guide for custom native code.
import { openInbox } from "react-native-email-link";
openInbox();
Text for the top of the ActionSheet or Intent.
Type | Required | Default |
---|---|---|
string | No | 'Open mail app' |
Subtext under the title on the ActionSheet
Type | Required | Default | Platform |
---|---|---|---|
string | No | 'Which app would you like to open?' | iOS |
Text for last button of the ActionSheet.
Type | Required | Default | Platform |
---|---|---|---|
string | No | 'Cancel' | iOS |
If true, not text will be show above the ActionSheet or Intent. Default value is false.
Type | Required | Default |
---|---|---|
boolean | No | false |
Text for first button of the ActionSheet.
Type | Required | Default | Platform |
---|---|---|---|
string | No | 'Default email reader' | iOS |
If true, the email Intent will be started in a new Android task. Else, the Intent will be launched in the current task.
Read more about Android tasks here.
Type | Required | Default | Platform |
---|---|---|---|
boolean | No | true | Android |
import { openInbox } from "react-native-email-link";
openInbox({
message: "Whatcha wanna do?",
cancelLabel: "Go back!",
});
import { openComposer } from "react-native-email-link";
openComposer();
app
title
message
(iOS only)cancelLabel
(iOS only)removeText
defaultEmailLabel
to
cc
bcc
subject
body
encodeBody
App to open the composer with
Type | Required | Example |
---|---|---|
string | No | An app's id that can be retrieved with getEmailClients |
On Android - id holds the package name, e.g. com.mail.app |
||
On iOS - id holds the app slug/name, e.g. gmail |
Text for the top of the ActionSheet or Intent.
Type | Required | Default |
---|---|---|
string | No | 'Open mail app' |
Subtext under the title on the ActionSheet.
Type | Required | Default | Platform |
---|---|---|---|
string | No | 'Which app would you like to open?' | iOS |
Text for last button of the ActionSheet.
Type | Required | Default | Platform |
---|---|---|---|
string | No | 'Cancel' | iOS |
If true, not text will be show above the ActionSheet or Intent. Default value is false.
Type | Required | Default |
---|---|---|
boolean | No | false |
Text for first button of the ActionSheet.
Type | Required | Default | Platform |
---|---|---|---|
string | No | 'Default email reader' | iOS |
Recipient's email address.
Type | Required | Default |
---|---|---|
string | No | null |
Email's cc.
Type | Required | Default |
---|---|---|
string | No | null |
Email's bcc.
Type | Required | Default |
---|---|---|
string | No | null |
Email's subject.
Type | Required | Default |
---|---|---|
string | No | null |
Email's body.
Type | Required | Default |
---|---|---|
string | No | null |
Apply encodeURIComponent
to the email's body.
Type | Required | Default |
---|---|---|
boolean | No | false |
import { openComposer } from "react-native-email-link";
openComposer({
to: "support@example.com",
subject: "I have a question",
body: "Hi, can you help me with...",
});
import { getEmailClients } from "react-native-email-link";
const clients = await getEmailClients();
console.log(clients)[
{
iOSAppName: "gmail", // iOS only
prefix: "gmail://",
title: "GMail",
androidPackagename: "com.google.android.gm", // Android only
id: "gmail", // depending on the platform, holds either the package name or the app slug value
}
];
To utilize this feature to display an email client picker within a custom UI and subsequently use the openComposer
to launch a specific app, you just need to pass the id
(from response) value into the options (options.app
) within the openComposer
.
Custom consulting sessions available for implementation support or feature development.