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Title: Attaching multiple photos / files?
Post by: telrod11 on November 21, 2013, 07:00:35 pm

Is there a simple way that I am missing to enable selecting multiple photos / files in AquaMail?
Seems tedious that I have to select them one at a time, instead of being able to say, select three at a time to send.

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Title: Re: Attaching multiple photos / files?
Post by: Kostya Vasilyev on November 25, 2013, 02:16:20 am

Android's way of letting one app ask others to "let the user pick stuff" works on one item at a time. Even the new 4.4 "content framework" works this way.

Therefore, open Gallery or a file explore, first select / put checkmarks on multiple items, then use Share -> and choose AquaMail.

"Share" on recent Android versions is an icon bar button.

Title: Re: Attaching multiple photos / files?
Post by: someone on November 25, 2013, 07:26:58 am

That's a cool trick!

Title: Re: Attaching multiple photos / files?
Post by: Thomas on November 25, 2013, 11:49:13 pm

..or do it reverse. First select/mark all images and then "share with" AquaMail ;)

Title: Re: Attaching multiple photos / files?
Post by: Kostya Vasilyev on December 12, 2013, 11:48:10 pm

Android 4.4's new built-in "document" picker supports it, and AquaMail now "tells it" that it can deal with multiple picked attachments.

http://www.aqua-mail.com/forum/index.php?topic=1859.0

The way AquaMail "tells about" this capability is not unique to 4.4, it can work from 4.1 onward, so it's a matter of other app developers implementing support for multi-pick too.

Hopefully they noticed this in the documentation (just like I did):

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Intent.html#EXTRA_ALLOW_MULTIPLE