Does anyone know of a way to send an email from th...

# multiplatform

[Josh Eldridge]

Does anyone know of a way to send an email from the iOS source set in KMM? I've built out the
MFMailComposeViewController but am unsure how to present it to the user. I've been experimenting and tried:

val rootViewController = UIApplication.sharedApplication().delegate?.window?.rootViewController()
rootViewController?.presentViewController(mfMailComposeViewController, animated = true, null)

But it fails when grabbing the window. I'm not super familiar with iOS concepts so I'm sure there is some fundamental knowledge missing here.

[Josh Eldridge]

Looks like it may be better to construct the mailto: URL and have the application open the URL without messing with views

[Rene Gens]

I spent the whole day trying to make this work and came to the same conclusion that mailto is the way to go. Here in a full code snippet.

actual fun sendEmail(onError: () -> Unit) {
    val mailtoString = "mailto:${iosSupportEmail}?subject=Support for Papely ${getBuildVersion()}"
    val mailtoUrl = NSURL(string = mailtoString)
    if (UIApplication.sharedApplication.canOpenURL(mailtoUrl)) {
        UIApplication.sharedApplication.openURL(mailtoUrl)
    } else {
        onError.invoke()
    }
}