Yes, you place an outgoing call by starting an activity with the CALL intent. There is nothing in the background catching this -- it is just launching the call activity (which then talks with the telephony system, sends broadcasts, etc to finally get in to a call).
This is actually all the old IPhone API did, was call startActivity() for you. On Oct 23, 1:34 pm, dreamerBoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yeah, saw that. If you read it carefully, there's no way to place an > outgoing call. > > The damn API changed... > > I believe the answer I was looking for was > > http://code.google.com/android/reference/android/content/Intent.html > > ACTION_CALL > > I'm still a bit unclear on the entire picture. I guess the receiver > here lives in the background and is launched automagically on startup > by Android (sort of like a system daemon on unix)? Upon receiving > your intent, it actually triggers the phone to initiate a call? > > Is there some way to list all of these background services? > > Can anyone help fill out the picture? > > Thanks - > > Paul > > On Oct 22, 7:20 pm, hackbod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > These are not public APIs. The telephony APIs are here: > > >http://code.google.com/android/reference/android/telephony/package-su... > > > On Oct 22, 1:38 pm, dreamerBoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi - > > > > I need to be able to place outgoing calls and interact with IPhone. > > > This apparently, ~was~ the way to get it: > > > > private static IPhone getPhoneInterface() throws DeadObjectException { > > > IServiceManager sm = ServiceManagerNative.getDefault(); > > > IPhone phoneService = > > > IPhone.Stub.asInterface(sm.getService("phone")); > > > return phoneService; > > > > } > > > > However, my eclipse project does not accept: > > > > import android.os.ServiceManagerNative; > > > > and there is no longer a ServiceManagerNative class in the android > > > javadoc. > > > > The API must have changed. Does anyone know the new way to do this? > > > > Much obliged. > > > > Paul --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
