Email Intent display wrong addresses

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After reading this question and this question I wrote this code to send an email for multiple addresses:

String[] addresses = {"[email protected]", "[email protected]" ,"[email protected]"};

    Intent someIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SENDTO, Uri.fromParts(
            "mailto", Arrays.toString(addresses), null)) //all the addresses 
    .putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "This is a test")
    .putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "For my app");
    startActivity(Intent.createChooser(someIntent, "Send email..."));

It looks like this:

As you can see in the image for some reason I am getting extra [ for the first email address and extra ] for the last email address (this is causing non-valid email addresses and I can`t send the email).

Why this is happening and how can I remove those extra [ and ].

Presumably, the `[` and `]` are coming from `Arrays.toString()`. — CommonsWare, May 14 '19 at 17:12
Try out https://stackoverflow.com/a/29615037/9263083, It works for me — sanoJ, May 14 '19 at 17:21
Thank you for all of your comments, CommonsWare solved it. sometimes I really do make the silliest mistakes. — Tamir Abutbul, May 14 '19 at 17:25

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered May 14 '19 at 17:23

So as CommonsWare said in his comment, the extra [ and ] are really coming from Arrays.toString().

All I had to do is remove [ and ] from the string and it all worked

String[] addresses = {"[email protected]", "[email protected]", "[email protected]"};
String cleanAddresses = Arrays.toString(addresses).replace("[", "").replace("]", ""); //remove [] from addresses

    Intent someIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SENDTO, Uri.fromParts(
            "mailto", cleanAddresses, null)) //all the addresses
            .putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "This is a test")
            .putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "For my app");
    startActivity(Intent.createChooser(someIntent, "Send email..."));

Email Intent display wrong addresses

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