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Count the Related Items in an Email

Demonstrates the read-only Chilkat Email.NumRelatedItems property, which is the number of related MIME items in the email. Related items are resources — such as images or style sheets — embedded with an HTML body in a multipart/related enclosure, and are commonly referenced by the HTML using a cid: URL or a Content-Location. Indexes are zero-based. This example sets an HTML body, adds a related item, and prints the count.

Background: When an HTML email shows an image that travels inside the message (rather than being downloaded from the web), the image is a "related item." The HTML references it with <img src="cid:logo.png">, and a matching part carries a Content-ID of logo.png. The whole bundle lives in a multipart/related enclosure. This is different from an attachment: related items are meant to be displayed as part of the body, not saved as separate files.

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// Important: Don't forget to include the call to System.loadLibrary
// as shown at the bottom of this code sample.
package com.test;

import android.app.Activity;
import com.chilkatsoft.*;

import android.widget.TextView;
import android.os.Bundle;

public class SimpleActivity extends Activity {

  private static final String TAG = "Chilkat";

  // Called when the activity is first created.
  @Override
  public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    //  Demonstrates the read-only Email.NumRelatedItems property.  Related items are
    //  resources (such as images or style sheets) embedded alongside an HTML body in a
    //  multipart/related enclosure, typically referenced from the HTML by a cid: URL.

    CkEmail email = new CkEmail();

    //  Set an HTML body that references a related item by content-id.
    email.SetHtmlBody("<html><body><img src=\"cid:logo.png\"/></body></html>");

    //  Add the related item.  AddRelatedString returns the content-id assigned to it.
    //  The empty charset argument means no charset conversion is applied.
    String cid = email.addRelatedString("logo.png","(pretend this is image data)","");
    Log.i(TAG, "Related content-id = " + cid);

    Log.i(TAG, "NumRelatedItems = " + String.valueOf(email.get_NumRelatedItems()));

  }

  static {
      System.loadLibrary("chilkat");

      // Note: If the incorrect library name is passed to System.loadLibrary,
      // then you will see the following error message at application startup:
      //"The application <your-application-name> has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again."
  }
}