[SalesForce] How to implement Send an Email functionality for custom object

I want to implement Send an Email functionality for custom object(Currently send an email available for only Contact/Lead/Person Account).

Once we click on "Select Template" button it should open a new window
with all the existing email templates
Once we select any one email template the subject and body should
populate on subject and Body field in visualforce page.

Anyone have any idea on how to implement this functionality?

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All you want can be implemented with buttons, picklist, input texts and a reach text editor.

From the controller you can query the emails templates, then you can list the templates names in a picklist, once the user select an option in the picklist you can populate a reach text area with the body of the email template.

Rich text editor: <apex:inputTextArea richText="true" />

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[SalesForce] How to send VisualForce Email using a template from a trigger

In order to use VF Email templates, you have to send an email to a Lead, Contact, or User via setTargetObjectId with the associated merge fields.

I don't believe you can freeform an email address.

Also be aware sending single emails you max out at 10 emails per request, so you'll have to make sure that your trigger doesn't send anymore than 10 emails.

If it does, you'll need to use 'Bulk email' which doesn't allow templates either.

[SalesForce] Sending Email from apex controller by calling an email template

This is a very simple piece of code

EmailTemplate templateId = [Select id from EmailTemplate where name = 'Your template Name'];
List<Messaging.SingleEmailMessage> allmsg = new List<Messaging.SingleEmailMessage>();
Messaging.SingleEmailMessage mail = new Messaging.SingleEmailMessage();
mail.setTemplateID(templateId.Id); 
mail.setTargetObjectId(contactId)
mail.setSaveAsActivity(false);
allmsg.add(mail);
Messaging.sendEmail(allmsg,false);

Use this piece of code to send email from apex using template.

Update: Or you can create a utility class as suggested by @cropredy. You can find reference here.

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