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[Michael Zanetti <michael.zanetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 13.11.2016 12:09, ali hagigat wrote:
> I have Nexus 5, UbuntuTouch and ubuntu-sdk. Can i use some fundamental
> telephony functions by ubuntu-sdk? How I can use the telephony gsm
> libraries because there is no document for them. For example , i want to
> write an application to dial another number or send text SMS messages to
> another number. What libraries i should use to do that?


Hi, there is no API for that in the SDK. The platform's design doesn't
allow arbitrary apps to send messages or place phone calls in the user's
name without requiring interaction from the user. What you can do in
your app, is to open a link like tel:///12345678. This would cause the
dialer app to appear with that number filled in. All the user then has
to do is to press the call button. This should cater for most of the
uses cases I think. For example, an app that finds some phone numbers
for the user to call, can be done pretty nicely with that.

That said, obviously, there might be some use cases where sending
messages or calling numbers in a completely automated way are desired
(say, anti theft apps). This is still possible by either accessing ofono
on D-Bus yourself or calling the scripts in /usr/share/ofono/scripts.
Your application needs to be unconfined for that. Obviously this is
highly sensitive from a security point of view and because of that an
app doing so cannot be published in the store at this point. Your
application needs to be unconfined for that, which means your options to
publish it are either by hosting it yourself or publish it in the openstore.

Br,
Michael

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