Question

I have a feature in my app which directly calls a phone number without going through the android dallier,
Everything worked fine on android 2.2 and 2.3,
but now since i upgraded my phone to 4.1,
The call intent being “ACTION_CALL” and not “ACTION_DIAL”
still goes to the dialer screen and waits for the user to tap the call button

Following is the block of code which is responsible to directly call a phone number:

void makeCall(Context context,String number){
 Intent callIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_CALL);  
 // Add the additional flags required for staring new Activity.
 callIntent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);  
 callIntent.setData(Uri.parse("tel:"+number));
 context.startActivity(callIntent);
}

I also have the call permissions set in the manifest

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CALL_PRIVILEGED" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CALL_PHONE" />

Has anyone else faced a similar issue?

Answer 1

It seems android treats “9999999991”, “9999999992”, “9999999993” since android 4.1 which i was using as dummy phone numbers for my testing, whereas the normal numbers dial up directly the above numbers are shown in the dialer.