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Get and Set the Email Subject

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.Subject property, which reads or writes the MIME Subject header. When the subject contains non-ASCII characters, Chilkat performs the required MIME header encoding automatically. This example sets a subject and reads it back.

Background: MIME headers were originally restricted to plain ASCII, which is a problem for subjects containing accented letters, emoji, or non-Latin scripts. The solution (RFC 2047) is "encoded-words," where such text is wrapped like =?utf-8?B?...?= so it travels safely through mail systems. You work with the Subject property as ordinary readable text — Chilkat handles the encoding on the way out and the decoding on the way in.

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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 getting and setting the Email.Subject property, which reads or writes
    //  the MIME Subject header.  Chilkat performs the required MIME header encoding when the
    //  subject contains non-ASCII characters.

    CkEmail email = new CkEmail();

    email.put_Subject("Meeting agenda for Monday");

    Log.i(TAG, "Subject = " + email.subject());

  }

  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."
  }
}