Zip an Email's Attachments into One File

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Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.ZipAttachments method, which replaces all of an email's attachments with a single Zip file attachment having the specified filename. The original attachments are removed and packed into the Zip. This example adds two attachments and zips them into one.

// 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);

    boolean success = false;

    //  Demonstrates the ZipAttachments method, which replaces all of an email's attachments
    //  with a single Zip file attachment having the specified filename.  The original
    //  attachments are removed and packed into the Zip.

    CkEmail email = new CkEmail();
    email.put_Subject("Zip the attachments");

    email.AddStringAttachment("a.txt","first attachment");
    email.AddStringAttachment("b.txt","second attachment");
    Log.i(TAG, "NumAttachments before = " + String.valueOf(email.get_NumAttachments()));

    //  Replace all attachments with a single Zip attachment named "files.zip".
    success = email.ZipAttachments("files.zip");
    if (success == false) {
        Log.i(TAG, email.lastErrorText());
        return true;
        }

    Log.i(TAG, "NumAttachments after = " + String.valueOf(email.get_NumAttachments()));

  }

  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."
  }
}