cordova-plugin-email-composer does not work on iOS 13+

[Florian-crg]

Impossible to make cordova-plugin-email-composer work on IOS 14.7.

I have GMAIL APP as a default email.

Apple Mail is deleted and I got Outlook APP which is not set as default.

Despite of having two mail Apps with on set by default it does not work.

[synapdk]

This is a showstopper for us. Has anyone found a workaround or alternative?

[Florian-crg]

Yes you can use simple html https://css-tricks.com/snippets/html/mailto-links/

[pprattis]

To make ios able to communicate with other mailer apps you need to add in the info.plist the url scheme of these apps under LSApplicationQueriesSchemes, for example for iMail, gmail & outlook apps:

<key>LSApplicationQueriesSchemes</key>
<array>
<string>mailto</string>
<string>googlegmail</string>
<string>ms-outlook</string>
</array>

Now if you read the plugin's documentation there is a function that can easily check if a specified mailer app is installed and use that app. Use:
cordova.plugins.email.hasClient(app, callback)
where app is a string, for iMail, gmail, outlook is 'mailto', 'gmail', 'outlook' respectively.

And then use the specified app as a param in :

cordova.plugins.email.open({
    app: app,
    ...
})

I have to warn you that I read in other issues that Apple only allows the iMail app to pass attachments and attach files (also tested it and indeed only iMail can attach files). In other use cases the other mailer apps work properly.

[jfoclpf]

@PetePrattis would you be so kind to make a PR on that?

I don't have iOS so I don't have means to test it (I'm a collaborator of the project, not the initial creator), but I guess you can add these configurations in this repo's plugin.xml under <platform name="ios">, more precisely here.

You can use xml config-file or edit-config entry.

Something like

<config-file target="*-Info.plist" parent="LSApplicationQueriesSchemes">
  <array>
    <string>mailto</string>
    <string>googlegmail</string>
    <string>ms-outlook</string>
  </array>
</config-file>

What do you think? Could you kindly test it?

Also consider that the directories plugins/ and platforms/ are normally volatile in cordova projects, thus you should not rely on files saves therein. All configurations should be done either in config.xml for sole projects or plugin.xml for plugins.

Thanks a lot in advance

[jfoclpf]

@Florian-crg could you kindly also test it, that is, adding this under <platform name="ios"> on the plugin.xml file of this plugin?

<config-file target="*-Info.plist" parent="LSApplicationQueriesSchemes">
  <array>
    <string>mailto</string>
    <string>googlegmail</string>
    <string>ms-outlook</string>
  </array>
</config-file>

Don't forget to rebuild the project in that case. Thanks a lot

[jfoclpf]

I realized now that plugin.xml had already that entry but only with <string>mailto</string>. I already made a PR (#370) including <string>googlegmail</string> and <string>ms-outlook</string>.

Could you kindly test this PR?

cordova plugin rm cordova-plugin-email-composer
cordova plugin add github:katzer/cordova-plugin-email-composer#pull/370/head
cordova clean && cordova build ios

@PetePrattis @Florian-crg @synapdk @ocean999882

[jfoclpf]

@Florian-crg Florian can you test it PLEASE? This is open source, let's have a collaborative working spirit.