My, those bright sparks over at MobileOrchard are just outdoing themselves; the second in their OS 3.0 tutorial series — In App Email, MessageUI — is now up, and you should definitely read it:
This time, we’ll add in-app email to a simple iPhone application using the new-in-3.0 MessageUI framework … with 3.0 and MessageUI, sending messages is straightforward and full featured.
We’ll start with working code for a simple app with a UI containing a single button. We’ll add code that shows the compose-an-email message UI and pre-fills the subject and content when the button is pressed.
We’re going to make a very distinct point of including this in all our app releases from now on — at the very least, an angry user that finds it easy to vent at you directly is much less of a problem than an angry user that gives you a ranting 1-star rating on the App Store, yes? And looking at all the low star reviews that we’ve gotten for any reason other than price, every single one of them is a complete misunderstanding that could have been corrected in seconds had we had the chance to do so, so anything that even might help avoid more of those is completely worth the effort to implement, wethinks!
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