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Re: Lookup incoming calls number and show in notification?

 

HI Michael,

If you create such a function, I'd be happy if you also could wrap it 
as an QML plugin. :)

Vänlig hälsning / Yours sincerely,
  Daniel Holm
  IT Consultant
  Web Developer
  Student
  d.holmen@xxxxxxxxx
  http://www.danielholm.se

Den mån 17 jun 2013 09:45:07 skrev Michael Zanetti:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> I don't think its possible through QML only yet. On the N9 this was possible
> by connecting to the telepathy service on D-Bus (only in C++). Not even sure
> if that's already working Ubuntu Touch yet.
>
> I'll give it a shot at some point as I need it for my application too. I'll
> need it only from C++ but once that works, it shouldn't be much efforts to wrap
> it in a QML plugin.
>
> Gustavo, do you know about the plans regarding such functionaliry? Will apps
> have (probably read-only) access to the telepathy D-Bus interface that signals
> incoming calls?
>
> Br,
> Michael
>
> On Sunday 16 June 2013 19:22:56 Daniel Holm wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> On my Android phone, today, I have an application which in English is
>> named "Who Called" (Vem Ringde). This app is used to display information
>> about a number - perhaps an incoming call, and you don't recognize the
>> number / its not in your contacts. Also you can start it up and search
>> the recently called numbers.
>>
>> I do very much appreciate this app since I get information about who it
>> is that calls, and I can choose to decline the call if it is a sales
>> person, for example. Now I would like to do the same thing for Ubuntu
>> Touch (for Swedish users at least, but it'll be open source, so any one
>> can use it) and I need some help.
>>
>> I have a database with number (Creative Commons from vemringde.se) that
>> I can call by Xmlhttprequest, but I need to know if I can hook into an
>> incoming call and do a search of the number, and display some info in a
>> new notification together with the one that you can either decline or
>> accept the call in.
>>
>> So: How do run an app on an incoming call; how do I pass the number
>> trough the app; and how do I display a notification?
>>
>> Using QML only. No C++, thank you.


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