PLAIN_TEXT_TYPE issue

Question

I am having and issue with the line "emailIntent.setType(HTTP.PLAIN_TEXT_TYPE);" as it says cannot resolve issue for the PLAIN_TEXT_TYPE part. I am working through this: https://developer.android.com/training/basics/intents/sending.html and kept the code the same.

Answer 1

setType takes a String so you can circumvent it (as it says in the comment) by doing this:

 emailIntent.setType("text/plain");

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I did a quick Google, looks like the docs made sense for Android v5 but not since then :-) aka above Marshmallow. HTTP.PLAIN_TEXT_TYPE is apart of apache http which used to be bundled with Android. What code do I need to fix Apache HTTP Client removal? TLDR just use the String as above.

https://developer.android.com/about/versions/marshmallow/android-6.0-changes#behavior-apache-http-client

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Raised a bug for them to fix the docs: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/148429148 :-)