React Native Email Action

A simple and customized way to open email linking (Best option for iOS that will ask you what email app you can use, if installed)

Demo (iOS)

Installation

yarn add react-native-email-action

iOS Only

After iOS 9+, you need to add this information keys on Info.plist

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

Usage

import { sendEmail } from 'react-native-email-action';

const options = {
  to: 'erick.maeda26@gmail.com',
  subject: 'Very important!',
  body: 'Verify your email fast!',
};
sendEmail(options);

Configuring Available Email Apps

By default, the library checks for Mail, Outlook, and Gmail. You can customize which email apps are available by using the configureEmailApps function:

import { sendEmail, configureEmailApps } from 'react-native-email-action';

// Enable specific email apps
configureEmailApps(['mail', 'gmail', 'outlook', 'spark', 'airmail']);

// Or pass appIds directly to sendEmail for one-off usage
sendEmail({
  to: 'user@example.com',
  subject: 'Subject',
  body: 'Body',
  appIds: ['gmail', 'outlook', 'spark'],
});

Available Options to sendMail

	description	type	required
to	Email to destination	string	Y
subject	Email Subject	string	Y
body	Email Content	string	Y
cc	Email CC	array	N
bcc	Email BCC	array	N

Available email apps

iOS (If installed)

• Mail
• Gmail
• Outlook
• Spark
• Airmail
• Superhuman
• Yahoo Mail
• Fastmail
• ProtonMail

You can use any of these app IDs when calling configureEmailApps(): mail, gmail, outlook, spark, airmail, superhuman, ymail, fastmail, protonmail

Android

• All the apps installed.

iOS Configuration

After iOS 9+, you need to add the URL schemes for the email apps you want to support in your Info.plist:

<key>LSApplicationQueriesSchemes</key>
<array>
  <string>message</string>
<!-- iOS configuration details are consolidated below -->
  <string>ms-outlook</string>
  <string>googlegmail</string>
  <string>readdle-spark</string>
  <string>airmail</string>
</array>

Roadmap

API

• sendEmail(options): Opens the email composer. On iOS, shows an action sheet listing available apps based on configureEmailApps() or options.appIds.
• configureEmailApps(appIds): Sets the default list of email apps to check on iOS. Use app IDs from the list below.
• Add other app emails for iOS ✅ Done! (configurable)
• Add attachment option