Best way to make a phone call?

zoid66

For Both IOS and Android.. I was thinking (OpenURL) tied to a button and adding in a phone number tag work to make a phone call from a game? Such that when you click on a phone number from a webpage. I don't see a 'tel' drop down.. Thinking gamesalad should add in a few other 'OpenURL' in the drop down such that even google market market:// will allow on "android" the phone to launch the google play app and not the browser.

Let me know if someone has found other ways that work.. save me some time.

LeonardDeveloper

Apple won't allow that for ios and you won't be able to completely do it through HTML for android

zoid66

Is it possible to use the phone function within gs?

LiquidGameworks

@zoid66 No, GS doesn't allow access to phone, or most other iOS functions.
@Leonarddeveloper What won't Apple allow? Phone function access from within applications is absolutely possible, as I've done it with one of my apps (not built with GS).

zoid66

For Android: Should be as simple as the below i am sure GS is something as such... I have a Santa App that I want to add a 'call santa' option.. Holding me back

public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
if (url.startsWith("mailto:") || url.startsWith("tel:")) {
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW,
Uri.parse(url));
startActivity(intent);
}
view.loadUrl(url);
return true;
}

LeonardDeveloper

@liquidgameworks
My apologies, I didn't define it specifically enough, Apple WONT allow anything like phone calls or core function accesibilities through HTML as he was suggesting as you can't access core functionalities through anything else in GS,

And he was alluding to doing it through html if you read the text properly