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Set an Email Body with a Content-Type

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Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.SetTextBody method, which sets the body of the email and also sets the Content-Type header field to the value in the second argument (a textual MIME type such as text/plain or text/html). If the email is already multipart/alternative, an alternative with the given content type is added, or replaced if one already exists. This example sets a plain-text body.

Background: SetTextBody is the general body-setter where you name the MIME type, making it flexible for building multipart/alternative messages one representation at a time. When your goal is specifically a plain-text/HTML pair, the dedicated methods — SetHtmlBody with AddPlainTextAlternativeBody, or AddHtmlAlternativeBody — express the intended alternative structure more clearly.

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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 SetTextBody method, which sets the body of the email and also sets the
    //  Content-Type header field to the value in the second argument (a textual MIME type such
    //  as text/plain or text/html).  If the email is already multipart/alternative, an
    //  alternative with the given Content-Type is added (or replaced if one already exists).

    CkEmail email = new CkEmail();
    email.put_Subject("SetTextBody example");

    //  Set a plain-text body with Content-Type text/plain.
    email.SetTextBody("This is the plain-text body of the message.","text/plain");

    Log.i(TAG, "HasPlainTextBody: " + String.valueOf(email.HasPlainTextBody()));
    Log.i(TAG, email.getMime());

  }

  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."
  }
}