Can I make a phone call from HTML on Android

Question

To make a phone call via HTML on an iPhone I create an  lt A  gt  tag with an href formatted as   lt a href  tel 123-555-1212  gt Dial Me lt  a gt    Is there an equivelant for HTML on Android   CLARIFICATION - using the format href  tele 123-555-1212  does indeed work on on android   I was testing the app within a native Java wrapper on the device   It does not appear as if we can make a call from a web application hosted in a Native Wrapper

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Generally on Android  if you simply display the phone number  and the user taps on it  it will pull it up in the dialer   So  you could simply do    For more information  call us at  lt b gt 416-555-1234 lt  b gt    When the user taps on the bold part  since it s formatted like a phone number  the dialer will pop up  and show 4165551234 in the phone number field  The user then just has to hit the call button   You might be able to do  For more information  call us at  lt a href  tel 416-555-1234  gt 416-555-1234 lt  a gt    to cover both devices  but I m not sure how well this would work  I ll give it a try shortly and let you know   EDIT  I just gave this a try on my HTC Magic running a rooted Rogers 1 5 with SenseUI   For more information  call us at  lt a href  tel 416-555-1234  gt 416-555-1234 lt  a gt  lt br   gt   lt br   gt  Call at  lt a href  tel 416-555-1234  gt our number lt  a gt   lt br   gt   lt br   gt   lt a href  416-555-1234  gt Blah lt  a gt   lt br   gt   lt br   gt  For more info  call  lt b gt 416-555-1234 lt  b gt    The first one  surrounding with the link and printing the phone number  worked perfectly  Pulled up the dialer with the hyphens and all   The second  saying our number with the link  worked exactly the same  This means that using  lt a href  tel xxx-xxx-xxxx  gt  should work across the board  but I wouldn t suggest taking my one test as conclusive   Linking straight to the number did the expected  Tried to pull up the nonexistent file from the server   The last one did as I mentioned above  and pulled up the dialer  but without the nice formatting hyphens

User · Answer

I have just written an app which can make a call from a web page - I don t know if this is any use to you  but I include anyway   in your onCreate you ll need to use a webview and assign a WebViewClient  as below   browser    WebView  findViewById R id webkit   browser setWebViewClient new InternalWebViewClient       then handle the click on a phone number like this   private class InternalWebViewClient extends WebViewClient         Override     public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading WebView view  String url             if  url indexOf  tel     gt  -1                startActivity new Intent Intent ACTION DIAL  Uri parse url                 return true            else               return false                      Let me know if you need more pointers

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Yes you can  it works on Android too      tel  phone number   Calls the entered   phone number  Valid telephone numbers   as defined in the IETF RFC 3966 are   accepted  Valid examples include the   following     tel 2125551212   tel   212  555 1212    The Android browser uses the Phone app to handle the    tel    scheme  as defined by RFC 3966  Clicking a link like    lt a href  tel 2125551212  gt 2125551212 lt  a gt    on Android will bring up the Phone app and pre-enter the digits for 2125551212 without autodialing   Have a look to RFC3966

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