Question

I have a Method that makes a phone call. The number and delay comes from strings in two edit text box’s. It works fine. But, i would like to put it in a loop so that it does the same this a number of times before it ends.

My code is –

public void makeCall(View view) {

             //create handler for phone call

         Handler delayedCallHandler = new Handler() {
              public void handleMessage(Message msg) {
                String num = (String) msg.obj;

                Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_CALL);
                intent.setData(Uri.parse(num));
                startActivity(intent);
              }
            };


            //Grabs milli seconds count from edit text box

               EditText edit_seconds = (EditText)
                    findViewById(R.id.seconds);
               CharSequence edit_seconds_value =
                    edit_seconds.getText();

               int secondz = Integer.parseInt(edit_seconds_value.toString());                    

            // Grabs TXT Char from MSISDN edit text box and converts to edit_text_value
            EditText edit_text = (EditText)
                    findViewById(R.id.msisdn);
               CharSequence edit_text_value =
                    edit_text.getText();

            //Delay phone call

            delayedCallHandler.sendMessageDelayed(
                    delayedCallHandler.obtainMessage(0, "tel:" + edit_text_value), // msg.obj = the number to call
                    secondz); // 50 seconds

            // Toast Popup when call set button pressed

            Toast toast=Toast.makeText(this, "You have now set the call for " + edit_seconds_value + "milliseconds" , Toast.LENGTH_LONG); 
            toast.show();  

    }        

Answer 1

You can launch the CALL activity with startactivityForResult(). Then in the OnActivtyResult send a delayed message to start the next CALL.

@Override
void onActivityResult(...) {
   ....
   if (count <= NUMBER_OF_CALLS) {
       delayedCallHandler.sendMessageDelayed(
                    delayedCallHandler.obtainMessage(0, "tel:" + edit_text_value), // msg.obj = the number to call
                    secondz); // 50 seconds
       count++;
   }
   ....
}