Hello developers/community. I am making an internet telephony application based on a proprietary protocol which connects to a web server for call setup.
As with other telephony applications this app also has three basic requirements: The need for a call log, a contact book and the ability to send/receive messages. One option is for me to develop all these three capabilities from the scratch. Another possibility is to leverage upon the built-in capabilities of android and tie them up to my application using content resolvers and Intents. Let me explain my requirements below, and I welcome your comments regarding their technical feasibility: *A)) Call Log: * I would like to maintain the call log of my application with the android call log. This will make sure that the user has one view of all the calls that were made (cellular or internet). Is there a way to read/write/delete from the call log application from android? I believe this can be done using content resolvers. >From the call log, if the user wishes to call back a customer (internet customer in my case) , then I wish to provide the user with an Intent Chooser. If the user selects by application, then the call will be made from my application and not a cellular call. How do I achieve this behavior ? If I listen to the ACTION_CALL intent, will my application be available in the intent chooser ? Or will android try to initiate a cellular call by default? *B)) Contact Book:* * * The customers can save the internet user's address in the contact book. There is an entry of a CUSTOM_PROTOCOL in the contact book of android. That is where the address of the user can be stored who is using my application. We already have choices of Yahoo, Gtalk and Skype in the contact book. Similarly, we can also have a custom protocol entry over there. But this is only half the issue. When the user selects the address of the custom protocol from the contact book, I wish to display a pop-up listing my application (maybe I can listen to the intent which is emitted). Now, if the user selects my application from the pop-up, I will make a call over the internet instead of the cellular world (my broadcast receiver will gain control). Again, I am not sure whether the above is possible and android will display the intent chooser from the contact book if my custom protocol field is selected. *C)) SMS capabilities:* When the user composes a SMS and tries to send it, I wish to intercept the outgoing SMS and provide the user a choice - to send the SMS using my application,or from android's native capabilities (GSM-SMS). I believe it is possible to listen to outgoing messages by registering a content observer on the SMS content resolver URI. However, I would like to know whether an INTENT is fired when the user tries to send a message ? It would make life much easier. Secondly, I want to re-use the android SMS storage for the messages received from my custom protocol over the internet. I wish to write to the android sms database (using its content resolver) for this. Thanks in advance With Regards Indodroid. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" 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-developers?hl=en
