Detect income calls and execute http link

[marafado88]

Hello everyone,
I have never used appinventor before and I am still discovering it.
What I am trying to acomplish is setting up an Android app to install in my cell phone, to run in background, to detect all income calls and open a link/url API that would add the name of the person to that link when a phone call is being received only.
It can be done? If yes, can anyone with more experience give me a guide?
Thanks in advance!

[SteveJG]

Welcome to the forum Marafado.

• an app that can run in the background. Impossible with App Inventor 2. AI2 cannot create Service apps.
• detect all income calls . What can be done with the Phone components: you can detect the incoming phone number (unless it is blocked) and if it is detected, possibly do something with additional coding The documentation is.* PhoneCall * PhoneNumberPicker
• the phone call component cannot detect the name of the person who called
• the phone call component can detect when the phone call is ended You probably can use it to use a WebViewer to go to a url link.

Be aware, the tool cannot automatically answer any received calls.

Can it be done? Probably not Marafado.

What can be done with App Inventor: Here are some resources to help you learn to use the AI2 tools. A very good way to learn App Inventor is to read the free Inventor's Manual here in the AI2 free online eBook http://www.appinventor.org/book2 ... the links are at the bottom of the Web page. The book 'teaches' users how to program with AI2 blocks.

There is a free programming course here http://www.appinventor.org/content/CourseInABox/Intro and the aia files for the projects in the book are here: http://www.appinventor.org/bookFiles

How to do a lot of basic things with App Inventor are described here: http://www.appinventor.org/content/howDoYou/eventHandling .

Also look here http://kio4.com/appinventor/index.htm and here http://www.imagnity.com/tutorial-index/ for more tutorials.

Regards,
Steve