Yes, that is why. The SDK does not provide access to everything, there are internal APIs that some Android built-in apps use but third- parties can (or should) not.
Yusuf Saib Android ·T· · ·Mobile· stick together The views, opinions and statements in this email are those of the author solely in their individual capacity, and do not necessarily represent those of T-Mobile USA, Inc. On Aug 18, 12:31 pm, cyclopse <[email protected]> wrote: > First of all thanks for your reply Justin. > > On 18 aug, 11:45, Justin Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Google is stating that code of other installed applications can be > > > > used in your own application. > > > Essentially what you can do is launch other activities/processes as long as > > you know the intent and intent filters for the functionality you want to > > include. Typically this would be done with a call to startActivity() or > > startActivityForResult(). > > > > I would like to incorporate some functionality of the Phone-app into > > > my own application, but have no idea where to start > > > What functionality of the phone app are you wanting to incorporate? > > > > (couldnt find anything useful in the SDK docs) > > > The information for using startActivity() and startActivityForResult() is in > > the SDK docs. Admittedly, it can be a bit hard to digest it all and apply > > it to your own application, though. I have had my fair share of struggles > > with them. :-) > > What i want to do is basically this: watch changes in call status (got > this part already working), if there is an incoming call compare it to > a list of numbers and block the incoming call if the phone number is > on the list. There seems to be 2 problems with implementing this idea. > The first problem is keeping your app running at any time (maybe a > wake lock can fix this), the second problem is using functionality > that actually is in the phone but not available in the SDK. > > I figured out that the Phone App which is in Android by default is > keeping the RIL daemon busy, so making a new connection to the RIL > daemon is not an option. > According to the android architecture diagram the Phone App sits on > the top layer, so i figured i might me able to use some functionality > in the Phone app to be able to block/hangup a call. > > The phone app sits on top of everything and is able to block calls, > why can't we? Is it because for some reason the phone app is the only > app that is allowed to use some sort of internal functionality? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
