{"id":26079,"date":"2015-09-02T11:10:06","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T05:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/?p=26079"},"modified":"2016-01-19T13:33:22","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T08:03:22","slug":"mailto-links-on-android-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/mailto-links-on-android-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"mailto links on android devices"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently we added a feature that uses the mailto link. While testing it was found that working fine on Desktops, iPhones, and iPad’s but not on android devices. To debug it quickly, we created a test page with just mailto link in it as shown below<\/p>\n

<a href=\"mailto:someone@example.com?Subject=Hello%20again\" target=\"_blank\">Send Mail<\/a>\r\n<\/pre>\n
and then tested this test page, and guess what it works with the android device!!!.<\/p>\n
So, this means that something is different or special in the actual (application\u2019s) HTML. After investigating further, we realized that the \u2018mailto\u2019 link is placed within a nested iFrame instead of the top level page.<\/p>\n
 This concludes that this case was not getting handled on Android when mailto is within an iFrame.<\/strong><\/p>\n
Then to quickly try again, we updated the target attribute of the anchor tag to value “_top”. Miraculously it worked!!!<\/p>\n
<a href=\"mailto:someone@example.com?Subject=Hello%20again\" target=\"_top\">Send Mail<\/a>\r\n<\/pre>\n
Hope this helps!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Recently we added a feature that uses the mailto link. While testing it was found that working fine on Desktops, iPhones, and iPad’s but not on android devices. To debug it quickly, we created a test page with just mailto link in it as shown below <a href=”mailto:someone@example.com?Subject=Hello%20again” target=”_blank”>Send Mail<\/a> and then tested this test […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":528,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":99,"footnotes":""},"categories":[518,1772],"tags":[4845,4842,2279,2277,2278],"class_list":["post-26079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-android","category-mobility","tag-android","tag-html","tag-links","tag-mailto","tag-mobile-devices"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t