Android Question Call forwarding, do I need phonestate?

[sorex]

Hello,

I need to create a small app that quickly enables an unconditional call forward
for people here at work that are not familiar with smart phones.

Can I just change the default phone forward settings in a kind of registry wise way like on Windows?

or do I really need one of these phone state libraries to have the app running as a service and check on incoming call states?

 

[Erel]

You can try the solution provided here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8447556/android-call-forwarding-programatically

You can use PhoneCalls from the Phone library to dial and send the #21 command.

 

[sorex]

Is this an in-phone function or something you activate provider wise?

 

[Erel]

This is a provider feature.

 

[sorex]

Got it working, Erel.

With your phone lib it's like 1 line of code unlike that intent stuff for the none b4a users.

the only "bad" part is that the screen blacks out 2 seconds during the *21*num# dial
and it gives extra notification prompts to be clicked away but that's something to live with it since it's OS prolly based.