Blackberry - make a call from native address book - blackberry

Question

how to make a call from menu item appended in native book of BB('Call from ABC' option)?

Answer 1

Initiate call programmatically
For RIM OS 4.7 and lower use Invoke:
PhoneArguments phoneArgs = new PhoneArguments(PhoneArguments.ARG_CALL,
"555-5555");
Invoke.invokeApplication(Invoke.APP_TYPE_PHONE, phoneArgs);
For RIM OS 5.0 declared we can use Phone.initiateCall method:
Phone.initiateCall(Phone.getLineIds()[0], "519-555-0100");
See Make a call from a BlackBerry device application (multi-line environment)
Add custom menu item to BlackBerry application
To add your "Call via ABC" item to address book menu we need to do following:
implement custom item as an extension to ApplicationMenuItem
add instance of custom item to menu using ApplicationMenuItemRepository
before deploying to the real device, don't forget to sign your code (may take up to 2 weeks)
Now, implementing custom menu item:
class AdressBookMenuItem extends ApplicationMenuItem {
Contact mContact;
public AdressBookMenuItem(int order) {
super(order);
}
public Object run(Object context) {
if (context instanceof Contact) {
mContact = (Contact) context;
if (0 < mContact.countValues(Contact.TEL)) {
String phone = mContact.getString(Contact.TEL, 0);
PhoneArguments args = new PhoneArguments(
PhoneArguments.ARG_CALL, phone);
Invoke.invokeApplication(Invoke.APP_TYPE_PHONE, args);
} else {
Dialog.alert("This contact has no phone number");
}
}
return null;
}
public String toString() {
return "Call via ABC";
}
}
Now add it to the address book:
AdressBookMenuItem menuItem = new AdressBookMenuItem(0);
ApplicationMenuItemRepository repository =
ApplicationMenuItemRepository.getInstance();
long id = ApplicationMenuItemRepository.MENUITEM_ADDRESSBOOK_LIST;
repository.addMenuItem(id, menuItem);
Putting All Together
Run application
Press Call button
Select contact
Open menu
You should see
address book menu http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/8175/callviaabc.png
Tested on Bold 9000 simulator
Full code:
import javax.microedition.pim.Contact;
import net.rim.blackberry.api.invoke.Invoke;
import net.rim.blackberry.api.invoke.PhoneArguments;
import net.rim.blackberry.api.menuitem.ApplicationMenuItem;
import net.rim.blackberry.api.menuitem.ApplicationMenuItemRepository;
import net.rim.device.api.ui.UiApplication;
import net.rim.device.api.ui.component.Dialog;
import net.rim.device.api.ui.component.LabelField;
import net.rim.device.api.ui.container.MainScreen;
public class CallIntegrate extends UiApplication {
public CallIntegrate() {
pushScreen(new Scr());
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
CallIntegrate app = new CallIntegrate();
app.enterEventDispatcher();
}
}
class AdressBookMenuItem extends ApplicationMenuItem {
Contact mContact;
public AdressBookMenuItem(int order) {
super(order);
}
public AdressBookMenuItem(Object context, int order) {
super(context, order);
}
public Object run(Object context) {
if (context instanceof Contact) {
mContact = (Contact) context;
if (0 < mContact.countValues(Contact.TEL)) {
String phone = mContact.getString(Contact.TEL, 0);
PhoneArguments args = new PhoneArguments(
PhoneArguments.ARG_CALL, phone);
Invoke.invokeApplication(Invoke.APP_TYPE_PHONE, args);
} else {
Dialog.alert("This contact has no phone number");
}
}
return null;
}
public Contact getContact() {
return mContact;
}
public String toString() {
return "Call via ABC";
}
}
class Scr extends MainScreen {
public Scr() {
super(DEFAULT_MENU|DEFAULT_CLOSE);
String label = "Now please go to blackberry adressbook, "
+ "select contact and open menu";
add(new LabelField(label));
AdressBookMenuItem menuItem = new AdressBookMenuItem(0);
ApplicationMenuItemRepository repository =
ApplicationMenuItemRepository.getInstance();
long id = ApplicationMenuItemRepository.MENUITEM_ADDRESSBOOK_LIST;
repository.addMenuItem(id, menuItem);
}
}