Spent a fair amount of time this week trying to send various flavors and combinations of email. The slow leg of the development cycle was coming from the fact that there is no Gmail setup in the emulator. Thus, I would have to push the .APK file out to an actual device to test an iteration.
Fortunately I came across the K-9 Mail application for Android. Since this allows POP and IMAP access, you can download its .APK in the emulator (via the browser), install it, and set up a simple POP/IMAP account. It then will respond to email-sending intentions. Goodbye to the “No applications can perform this action” message. While is isn’t exactly the same as the standard Gmail compose activity, it is close enough to narrow in on things like formatting and attachments without having to do a lengthier push-test cycle.
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