{"id":21927,"date":"2016-05-12T03:01:32","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T17:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/?p=21927"},"modified":"2016-05-11T14:09:44","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T04:09:44","slug":"contact-us-feedback-android-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/contact-us-feedback-android-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Contact Us Feedback Android Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Contact Us Feedback Android Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n

A couple of days ago we presented Contact Us Feedback Primer Tutorial<\/a> as shown below … and said …<\/p>\n

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Maybe you remember reading about the recent Feedback functionality here at RJM Programming when we presented Feedback Email Attachment Iframe Tutorial<\/a>. It struck us that it would be good to extend the “Contact Us” webpage here at RJM Programming by adding a “Feedback” form to the “Contact Us” now presented via an HTML select “dropdown” element.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

… well, we discovered down the track that the behaviour of the HTML a<\/i> tag’s mailto:<\/i><\/a> href<\/i> parameter navigation needs to be nuanced for Android (mobile) usage.<\/p>\n

A bit of reading on this lead us in one direction and the useful link<\/a> pulled us completely back into a good line, thanks, via the advice …<\/p>\n

\nwindow.top.location = “http:\/\/example.com”;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

… but, for us, that goes (something like) …<\/p>\n


\nwindow.top.location = \"mailto:fill.in@email.address?subject=blah&cc=&bcc=&body=Lots%20Of%20Blah\";
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… presumably to get the external Android Mail app into the picture. On the way this link<\/a> was useful, also, so, thanks.<\/p>\n

Trap for young players? (Am blushing)<\/p>\n

So for feedback functionality what changed for this Android fix (which also has trouble, perhaps, with inhouse Javascript functions called “capture”?!) was …<\/p>\n