Intent Action Call in Android 5
I have this code that works fine in Android 4.4 and previous:
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_CALL);
intent.setPackage("com.android.phone");
intent.setData(Uri.parse("tel:" + number));
context.startActivity(intent);
Now in Android 5.0 Lollipop this code doesn't work and shows this exception:
Fatal Exception: android.content.ActivityNotFoundException
No Activity found to handle Intent { act=android.intent.action.CALL dat=tel:xxxxxxxxx pkg=com.android.phone }
In the documentation, this one Intent
doesn't look out of date:
Any idea? thanks in advance
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An alternative to using a hand-coded string is to use the default intent
as follows:
Intent out = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_CALL );
out.setData(Uri.parse("tel:" + Uri.encode("+12345#123")));
startActivity(out);
This will pass the intent to the system and all phone-enabled apps will respond instead of the specific one defined by the String action
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This means that you are trying to call com.android.phone
, but you are not. There are no miracles. It won't work. Either the package is named differently, or you are using a semi-element emulator, or so with missing material. Not to mention, you should always have it try/catch
around startActivity()
as there is no guarantee that it will succeed (especially when targeting external packages)
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This worked for me on Android 4.4:
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_DIAL);
intent.setPackage("com.android.dialer");
intent.setData(Uri.parse("tel:1111111111"));
startActivity(intent);
If you are using Eclipse, open the dialer application and in DDMS, check the dialer package name; in my case it was "com.android.dialer".
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