What you learn: You will learn how to catch/replace the DIAL-Action that is broadcasted, when one starts typing numbers on the emulator-'desktop'.

Difficulty: 1 of 5

Questions/Problems: Simply post below...

Description:

1. Register the Activity you want your app to listen to it in the AndroidManifest.xml in the following way:
   
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   2.         <activity class=".MyDIALHandlerApplication" android:label="@string/app_name">
   3.             <intent-filter>
   4.                 <action android:value="android.intent.action.DIAL" />
   5.                 <category android:value="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
   6.             </intent-filter>
   7.         </activity>
   8.         ...

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2. Run the app once and close it (just that it gets installed on the emulator).
3. On the emulator-"desktop" start typing some numbers.
4. The system will ask you which one of two available activities you want to use to handle the DIAL-Action:
   - the 1st one is the "Contacts" standard system activity
   - the 2nd one should be yours

Regards,
plusminus

In SDK 1.0 use following:
<action android:name="android.intent.action.DIAL" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />

adroid:value gives error.

When I ran the application it didn't started any thing. But when I was having a call I pressed 5 key on the screen and it showed me the two option.

When I try this tutorial (replacing value with name as tabrej.khan stated), nothing happens.
"4. The system will ask you which one" ... but it doesn't

Any ideas?

Edit: I replaced "DIAL" with "CALL_BUTTON" and I do see the popup menu when pressing the call button... so I wonder why it won't work for dialing? Permissions perhaps?

bparker wrote:When I try this tutorial (replacing value with name as tabrej.khan stated), nothing happens.
"4. The system will ask you which one" ... but it doesn't

Any ideas?

Edit: I replaced "DIAL" with "CALL_BUTTON" and I do see the popup menu when pressing the call button... so I wonder why it won't work for dialing? Permissions perhaps?

i've met same problem.
but after i checked the dialer mainfest file in the latest cupcake,the following code may work fine

hi guys...

I am trying out something similar...
i want to start my application when someone clicks a link say myapp://mydata
in a email or some other place ......
I tried using this code but when i open the browser & insert the link nothing happens....the browser instead searches the web!!
.
.
.
<data android:host="mydata" android:scheme="myapp"></data>

CAn anyone help me out on this ???

DeveloperAmit wrote:hi guys...

I am trying out something similar...
i want to start my application when someone clicks a link say myapp://mydata
in a email or some other place ......
I tried using this code but when i open the browser & insert the link nothing happens....the browser instead searches the web!!
.
.
.
<data android:host="mydata" android:scheme="myapp"></data>

CAn anyone help me out on this ???

maybe this could help you
http://android-developers.blogspot.com/ ... -text.html

and i don't think you can type something in the brower and launch something else.

you can do this with Linkify.

Hello,
I'm trying to start an HelloWorld application written with Eclipse when I start typing numbers on the emulator-'desktop' but it doesn't work.

What I implemented in AndroidManifest is the following:



HelloWorldex is a simple HelloWorld. I put the file Helloworldex.java in the file src of my current program, Helloincomingcall. I didn't put anything between the accolades as you can see below in my main file: Helloincomingcall.java:



Could you please tell me if it's possible (or if it can only start applications that aren't on Eclipse) and, in the case when it's possible, what could be my problem ?
Thanks
an Android beginner...

PI9 wrote:Hello,
I'm trying to start an HelloWorld application written with Eclipse when I start typing numbers on the emulator-'desktop' but it doesn't work.

What I implemented in AndroidManifest is the following:

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1.  <activity android:name="Helloworldex" >
2.            <intent-filter>
3.                 <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
4.                 <action android:name="android.intent.action.DIAL" />
5.                 <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
6.                 <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />
7.                 <data android:scheme="tel" />

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HelloWorldex is a simple HelloWorld. I put the file Helloworldex.java in the file src of my current program, Helloincomingcall. I didn't put anything between the accolades as you can see below in my main file: Helloincomingcall.java:

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2.     /** Called when the activity is first created. */
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4. }

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Could you please tell me if it's possible (or if it can only start applications that aren't on Eclipse) and, in the case when it's possible, what could be my problem ?
Thanks
an Android beginner...

Are you sure you ain't missing something ?

Here is the whole AnotherHelloWorld 's manifest that you can type a number to launch it.
sdk 1.1,right?

Firstly, Thanks for your quick answer.
Nothing's missing it's just that i've pasted only the interesting part in the manifest file. My file was the same as yours.
My problem is that the phone doesn't ask me to choose between two applications when i start dialing... which is the purpose of the program as I understood it.
As I said previously, I haven't written anything in the body of the HelloIncomingCall class. Is it sufficient to just write in the manifest file that I want to start HelloWorldex



or do I have to write it in another file ?

I hope you won't get lost yourself in my explanations and you'll be able to help me ...
Thanks in advance

well ~
maybe you have already set a default app for that action.
try to clear defaults in your application manager~

Settings->Applications->Manage applications->Dialer(or some other app that you launch now when typing numbers ) -> clear defaults.

or anything else is wrong...

so i attach the whole project~it works fine both on my emulator and G1.

<receiver android:name=".PhoneStateIntentReceiver">
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.PHONE_STATE" />
</intent-filter>
</receiver>

Does this still work in 1.6+? Not working for me currently