Our company has recent started switching from Blackberries to iPhones and the biggest complaint (such as it is) is that the you can not start a dial sequence (that dials a number, waits for a pickup, dials more numbers, waits for a reply, dials more numbers) etc... which can be used to enter a phone conference such as InterCall.
Can I write a simple app to do this on the iPhone? The part I am most concerned about is accessing the phone dialing mechanism. The rest I can work from contacts, etc...
If such a thing is possible? And, if so, what sort of classes and methods should I research?
So, I just tried this
- (void)call {
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL: [NSURL URLWithString: @"tel://611,1,1"]];
}
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];
UIButton *telButton = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeRoundedRect];
telButton.frame = CGRectMake(20, 20, 100, 100);
[telButton setTitle:@"Call" forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[telButton addTarget:self action:@selector(call) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];
[self.view addSubview:telButton];
}
and it worked.
The automatically dial next number is achieved by placing a comma , and prompting the user to allow the phone to dial the next number is achieved by placing a semi-colon ;.
Ref 1: http://www.modernsaver.com/pause-wait-blackberry-iphone-droid Ref 2: http://www.iphonedevsdk.com/forum/iphone-sdk-development/85581-make-phone-call-tableview-cell.html#post355401