how to send SMS or make a phone call from a samsung gear s app

Question

i am trying to find a way to send SMS and make a phone call from a samsung gear s app.

the documentation is mostly missing and searching for this did not lead to much findings.

has anybody worked with that? is it at all possible?

as an alternative, if the app cannot send SMS or make the call, is it possible to start the default apps (similar to Android intent for SMS/Phone app or iOS openURL).

thanks.

Answer 1

here is what i find so far:

to make a call from a Gear S app use the following code:

var appControl = new tizen.ApplicationControl("http://tizen.org/appcontrol/operation/call", "tel:001....");

tizen.application.launchAppControl(appControl, null,
                    function() {
                        console.log("ok");
                    }, 
                    function(e)
                    {
                        console.log("error: " + e.message);
                    },
                    {
                        onsuccess : function()
                        {
                            console.log("ok 2");
                        },
                        onfailure : function(er)
                        {
                            console.log("error 2: " + er.message);
                        }
                    });

sending SMS is not possible at this time.

Answer 2

There is no messaging API implemented on Tizen for wearable devices. You can check it yourself by calling:

console.log(tizen.messaging);

It will return 'undefined'

It means that you can't programmatically send or read an SMS or an email from your wearable device using Tizen messaging API.

Answer 3

@memical - I have found a workaround to launch message/sms app using the app id.

<p onclick="hackSMS();">Send SMS</p>

<script>
function hackSMS() {
    tizen.application.launch("com.samsung.message", function(){console.log ("Launched")});
}
</script>

Remember to add this http://tizen.org/privilege/application.launch priviege in your apps config.xml

Note: I tried other methods also like using exposed tizen platform api's for web apps to launch some predefined app control. But it is working for Call and not for sms.

Answer 4

To open the app for make a call try this code:

Uri number = Uri.parse("tel:"+telNumber);
Intent openCallIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_DIAL, number);
startActivity(openCallIntent);

To make a call:

Uri number = Uri.parse("tel:"+telNumber); 
Intent callIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_CALL);
callIntent.setData(number);
startActivity(callIntent);

To send an sms:

Intent sendSmsIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
sendSmsIntent.setType("vnd.android-dir/mms-sms");
sendSmsIntent.putExtra("address", telNumber);
sendSmsIntent.putExtra("sms_body","Whatever you want");
startActivity(sendSmsIntent);

Similar questions to this one are already answered in stackoverflow

Answer 5

Try this which is very simple as compare to using the platform APIs.

http://www.w3.org/TR/mwabp/#bp-interaction-uri-schemes

The most broadly supported scheme is tel: as described in RFC3966 [RFC3966]. Code such as the following can be used to enable "Click-to-Call":

[PHONE-NUMBER]

Note that [PHONE-NUMBER] should always be entered using the full international prefix (e.g. +1-201-555-0111) to ensure that it works outside of its home country.

Similarly RFC5724 [RFC5724] can be used to send a GSM SMS (text message) as follows:

[PHONE-NUMBER]

Note that at the time of writing support for this RFC is limited and device compatibility should be verified before deployment.