How do I get the dialer to open with phone number displayed

Question

I don t need to call the phone number  I just need the dialer to open with the phone number already displayed  What Intent should I use to achieve this

User · Accepted Answer

Two ways to achieve it  1  Need to start the dialer via code  without user interaction  You need Action Dial  use below code  it will open Dialer with number specified Intent intent   new Intent Intent ACTION DIAL   intent setData Uri parse  quot tel 0123456789 quot     startActivity intent     The  tel   prefix is required  otherwhise the following exception will be thrown  java lang IllegalStateException  Could not execute method of the activity  Action Dial doesn t require any permission  If you want to initiate the call directly without user s interaction   You can use action Intent ACTION CALL  In this case  you must add the following permission in your AndroidManifest xml   lt uses-permission android name  quot android permission CALL PHONE quot    gt   2  Need user to click on Phone Number string and start the call  android autoLink  quot phone quot    You need to use TextView with below property  android autoLink  quot phone quot  android linksClickable  quot true quot  a textView property You don t need to use intent or to get permission via this way

User · Answer

As  ashishduh mentioned above  using android autoLink  phone is also a good solution  But this option comes with one drawback  it doesn t work with all phone number lengths  For instance  a phone number of 11 numbers won t work with this option  The solution is to prefix your phone numbers with the country code   Example   08034448845 won t work  but  2348034448845 will

User · Answer

Okay  it is going to be extremely late answer to this question  But here is just one sample if you want to do it in Kotlin   val intent   Intent Intent ACTION DIAL  intent data   Uri parse  tel  lt number gt    startActivity intent    Thought it might help someone

User · Answer

Pretty late on the answer  but if you have a TextView that you re showing the phone number in  then you don t need to deal with intents at all  you can just use the XML attribute android autoLink  phone  and the OS will automatically initiate an ACTION DIAL Intent

User · Answer

lt TextView  android id    id phoneNumber   android autoLink  phone   android linksClickable  true   android text   91 22 2222 2222     gt    This is how you can open EditText label assigned number on dialer directly

[android] How do I get the dialer to open with phone number displayed?

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