Telephony and android 2.3.3 and beyond

[Lildinti]

Hi everyone
As we are all more or less aware, google pretty much screwed up the telephony library by removing some permissions. By doing so, it crippled a lot of apps that used the telephony library.

To redeem themselves, they put the AIDL lib where you can (kinda) re-establish those right.

Has anyone got a version of the telephony working with answering/ending calls?
The answer call lib doesn't work on 2.3.3 and over. Seems to work only with 2.2 an previous versions.

Erel: any views about a new phone lib to include this (and the patch)?

Thank you fellas and happy coding!

Lil

 

[Erel]

Can you post a link to the relevant documentation or example?

 

[Lildinti]

Hi Erel
All the doco I found is confusing. Seems like people was using an Internal library and as you know that's playing with fire. An surely lots of developers got burnt.
There are heaps of links about answering call but unfortunately all work only up to API 8 that's when google decided to limit the access to the internal libraries.
I found this Broadcaster example but not sure it can work.
What do you reckon?

android - Service and a BroadCastReceiver - Stack Overflow

Thanks

Lil

 

[Lildinti]

Hi Erel,

A little bit more research...

how to block a mobile number call and message receiving in android application development? - Stack Overflow

Cheers,

Lil

 

[Erel]

The first link is very similar to using PhoneEvents library. It should work.

The second link looks pretty risky as it accesses private methods. I do not know whether it will work or not (it can depend on different OS versions).