Question

I need to show a phone number in a view and that when clicked a call is initiated. Currently I’m using an UILabel and I have no idea how to do it.

Is this the correct control? If no which one would be?

If it’s the correct one, how can I do it?

Answer 1

An UILabel could be used (kind of showing a link) but an UIButton might be more appropriate.

You can find the code to initiate the code from this question (and answer).

Using a UIButton and the code from above would give you:

var btn = UIButton.FromType(UIButtonType.RoundedRect);
btn.Frame = new RectangleF (10,10,100,200);
btn.SetTitle ("call me", UIControlState.Normal); 
btn.TouchUpInside += delegate {
    UIApplication.SharedApplication.OpenUrl (NSUrl.FromString ("tel://411"));
};