Sharing to Gmail app sets body as subject

[kennym]

Steps to reproduce

1. Call share dialog with title/subject set to test, and set body param to test body
2. When opening with Gmail app, the subject line and body will be set to test body, effectively ignoring the subject/title params

Expected behaviour

Email subject set to 'test'

Actual behaviour

Email subject set to 'test body'

Environment

• React Native version: 0.55.4
• React Native platform + platform version: iOS 12.1.2

react-native-share

Version: 1.1.3

[SergeyNedayvoda]

+1

[rlemasquerier]

Same issue here, occurring on iOS only.

[nartjie101]

+1

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[kennym]

any comment?

[MateusAndrade]

any comment?

You can give a try ate the latest version? I suspect this is something related on how the app handle params on both ios and android, when calling Share.

You can provide the sample code that you used in this test?

[zymr-viveksharma]

same issue facing. did any one got solution for this?
Any other alternative to handle share to all installed apps including gmail.

[kennym]

@MateusAndrade share anything on iOS with this library to the Gmail app... you'll see what we mean.

Basically using the same code you provide in the README.

[MateusAndrade]

@MateusAndrade share anything on iOS with this library to the Gmail app... you'll see what we mean.

Basically using the same code you provide in the README.

Im going to give a try with this today. Thanks for your feedback. 😄

[sitanshu-zymr]

Any ETA, To fixing this? Its a kind of eyecatcher thing.

[mikehardy]

As soon as you PR a change to the example that lets others test I'm guessing :-). Asking for ETAs in open source is like heading to the charity food center and asking why they aren't hurrying up with your free stuff right?

[sitanshu-zymr]

Ok I will try.

[dungkv-1044]

same issue :(
occurring on ios :(

[MateusAndrade]

same issue :(
occurring on ios :(

HI @dungkv-1044 recently we landed a PR that handle this. You can gave a look at this here: https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-share#sharesingleoptions-in-ios--android

#557

[thisisablock]

with the latest master

on Android, everything is fine.
on iOS the target email address and subject is not filled.

const options = {
url: blob,
email: 'hello@world.com',
subject: 'Hellol',
type: 'application/pdf',
social: Share.Social.EMAIL
}

[MateusAndrade]

@thisisablock you can try pass a share_subjectto the options? This was implemented on #38

[thisisablock]

@MateusAndrade

made a retest on the latest master branch on iOS 13.1.1

const options = {
url: blob,
email: 'hello@world.com',
subject: 'Hellol',
type: 'application/pdf',
social: Share.Social.EMAIL
}

on iOS 13.1.1 Subject is now working.
But the email sender is still not working on iOS.
Android works as expected.

[leteach]

I am having the same issue. Any word on a fix?

[nehaj2995]

target email not setting in android ,how do I fix this ?

[RadoAz]

Hi! Any updates here? We have react-native-share 3.0.0 and bug is still here.

[MateusAndrade]

Hi! Any updates here? We have react-native-share 3.0.0 and bug is still here.

Hi @RadoAz ? Which payload are you passing to Share and which platforms are you seeing this issue?

[RadoAz]

Hi, @MateusAndrade! On iOS. PDF file
const options = {
message: 'message.',
type: type,
url: filePath
};

[Gazfay]

Any updates? Still have this issue in 3.1.2.

[AlixBou]

The issue is still present on 3.2.0

Code used :
Share.open({
message: 'message',
subject: 'subject',
});

Result on the native mailer of ios 12 :

Result on gmail :

[KisaneNeko]

Anyone had luck finding a workaround for this issue? Config proposed by @thisisablock did not change anything for me - subject is still replaced with message in gmail app

[jozan]

I'm seeing this issue only on iOS and Gmail app. Gmail app seems to ignore type or filename on iOS. I suspect that sharing a file from filesystem could work but I haven't tested that.

Share.open({
  url: fileRef.current, // 'data:application/pdf;base64,<my pdf file data>'
  title: 'PDF-file',
  type: 'application/pdf',
  subject: 'PDF-file',
  filename: 'PDF-file.pdf',
})

This work for any other app I have tested on iOS. On Android this works with Gmail.

The file attached to the email is PDF-file. I can download it and add .pdf extension into it and it opens fine in macOS Preview.

[rezvalari]

Any workaround for this issue?

[MateusAndrade]

Any workaround for this issue?

The @jozan answer doesn't work for you?

[rezvalari]

@MateusAndrade I'm not sharing any file. Just texts and that doesn't look like a workaround. @jozan confirmed it is still problematic in Gmail.

[hieuhoit]

still present on 3.7.0 with Gmail, Yandex app

[sergiulucaci]

hei guys, after a quick search I found a few issues related to this:

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37953826/uiactivityviewcontroller-unable-to-set-subject-when-sharing-to-gmail-app
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29765806/uiactivityviewcontroller-gmail-share-subject-and-body-going-empty

So it might be a gmail bug instead. Just try share an iOS note (from Notes app) via gmail. The entire body will be set as subject.

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[d-patira]

Probably put a lot of empty space in front of the message, that will at-least clear off the subject field in iOS Gmail app.

For eg:

const space = `
`;

Share.open({
title: "your title here",
subject: "your subject here",
message: space+ 'your message here'
})

[Dror-Bar]

In regard to Gmail ignoring title / subject - this seems to be a bug with gmail app and not with this library. You can test this on your device - try to share a note and you will notice it has no subject (while sharing with apple email app has a subject).

[clemaccountable]

Any chance to re-open this issue? This bug is still happening

[mikehardy]

Is there some actionable task here and/or a desire to pursue it? Las comment is nearly a year ago and there's no action per last commenter. If you have information and desire to move this forward via presentation of your test results and/or a PR, sure?

[Jaseyacey]

Is there any progress here? Still an issue

[MorganTrudeau]

You can start your message with "\n" so the subject is blank. Let the user enter their own subject. Arguably better.

[HyopeR]

I tried it for Android and Ios. This bug still persists for Ios.

1- On Android phones, gmail correctly takes the "Subject" field.
2- On IOS phones, gmail takes "Message" field instead of "Subject" field.

[dimaokk]

same problem

[LaGregance]

Same problem, is there any news or workaround ?