HTML email body doesn't show properly in Android

[g0rdan]

I'm using email plugin and I've noticed that when I have to use html in email body (flag "isHtml" = true) Android does not render body as I'd expect. It seems Android doesn't show <h> and <font> tags at least. To reproduce the bug, launch iOS and Android version from repo (https://github.com/g0rdan/MvvmCrossEmailPluginBug) and compare the results.

Steps to reproduce 📜

1. Download and launch the test project for iOS

2. Loot at result:
   

3. Launch the test project for Android

4. Look at result:
   

Expected behavior 🤔

The rendering of html bodies should be the same.

Actual behavior 🐛

They're not the same.

Is this a bug or Android has some specifications for constructing html into email bodies?

Configuration 🔧

Version: 5.6.3

Platform:

• 📱 iOS
• 🤖 Android
• 🏁 WPF
• 🌎 UWP
• 🍎 MacOS
• 📺 tvOS
• 🐒 Xamarin.Forms

[g0rdan]

I've used Gmail as email client.

[nickrandolph]

@g0rdan if you use a different email client, do you see the same issue? Might be worth looking at the html that is generated and seeing whether it's well formed

[nickrandolph]

@g0rdan are you able to use create an email in Android directly and see if you can get it to look the same as the iOS version? We suspect this is an issue with how the email is being rendered, rather than how it's being created

[g0rdan]

@nickrandolph Sorry for not answering so long. I'll look at the issue on weekend and will let you know about results.

[g0rdan]

I tried many ways to call email intent directly and watched the same result. Generally, I used something like this:

var emailIntent = new Intent(Intent.ActionSend);
emailIntent.SetType("text/html");
var htmlBody = Html.FromHtml(body, FromHtmlOptions.ModeLegacy);
emailIntent.PutExtra(Intent.ExtraText, htmlBody);
StartActivity(emailIntent);

I guess we could close the issue.