Help How can I create a direct mail icon on home screen?

[thetingster]

I thought I was once able to do this. Perhaps it was on a previous version of Android OS or something.

How can I create a shortcut Icon on a home screen to send a direct mail message from gmail? When I choose shortcuts>email from desktop it opens to the setup accounts screen. Am I missing something here? My phone is already set up for gmail.

Thanks

 

[Alex Wekell]

I thought I was once able to do this. Perhaps it was on a previous version of Android OS or something.

How can I create a shortcut Icon on a home screen to send a direct mail message from gmail? When I choose shortcuts>email from desktop it opens to the setup accounts screen. Am I missing something here? My phone is already set up for gmail.

Thanks

It could be because email ≠ Gmail, they are two different apps entirely.

 

[Thom]

The best I could do was ...

Create a new contact that only has an e-mail address and call it ######

Invoke the dialer
Select ###### (easy to find)
Select e-mail (easy to find)

So you could have ### Tom, ### Dick. ### Harry and click to the one you want.

... Thom

 

[doogald]

I thought I was once able to do this. Perhaps it was on a previous version of Android OS or something.

How can I create a shortcut Icon on a home screen to send a direct mail message from gmail? When I choose shortcuts>email from desktop it opens to the setup accounts screen. Am I missing something here? My phone is already set up for gmail.

Thanks

A custom launcher such as LauncherPro may support this better. (I just tried with ADW EX, which I use, and it does not, though, even with custom shortcuts.)

You can create a contact shortcut icon, though. Touch that and it will give you a menu of choices (they are icons but their function is obvious.) Choose the one for email and it will ask you which app that you want to use (it gives GMail as a choice), which you can make the default. Then you can go into the "to" field and delete that contact and add whoever you wish.

 

[Thom]

... there are also some apps in Android Market that might help. Some of them are free. Do a scan for "shortcut email".

... Thom

 

[thetingster]

Thanks for the input. I just remember it being easier than all this. Maybe it was from a launcher I had, I don't know. I'll look into it.

 

[tjreishus]

I use speed dial to be able to so this

https://market.android.com/details?...esult#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEsImNvbS5iaW0uZGlhbCJd

Been using it for a couple years now and works great for sms (google voice also), and email.

 

[SirEagle]

The stock Quick Contacts widget is a two click thing. If you have a contact added to it when you click on them it gives you icons for each method you have them set up for.

 

[SirEagle]

Actually then you have the option the first time to set the default method for the contact.

 

[UncleMike]

If you have Tasker you could create a shortcut or widget on the home screen that would open a Gmail compose window, optionally with the recipient, subject and/or body filled in.

 

[Deanie]

My 2 click method is to use universal inbox. When you click the icon there is a plus sign to start a new message, and from here you can select which email address you wish to send from, if you have multiple accounts set up, and you do not want to use your default.