How to run USSD commands on android?

Question

has anyone know how to runs USSD command for checking phone's credit balance (the number is *123#) and get the result (the credit balance) for further processing?? thankss

Solution 1

You can run USSD codes in Android devices but you would be unable to parse the result in your application. This feature might be added to the Android SDK in the future but for now, you would have to look for an alternative.

USSD can be run using simple Call intents. See Example:

String ussdCode = "*" + "123" + Uri.encode("#");
startActivity(new Intent(Intent.ACTION_CALL, Uri.parse("tel:" + ussdCode)));

as mentioned in the comments phone call permission is also required

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CALL_PHONE" /

Solution 2

You can use "%23" instead of "#" :

String ussdCode = "*" + "123"+"%23";
startActivity(new Intent("android.intent.action.CALL", Uri.parse("tel:" + ussdCode)));

You should also add permission to your Manifest file:

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CALL_PHONE" />

Comments

[S.Thiongane]

can replace "android.intent.action.CALL" by Intent.ACTION_CALL

[Emad Aghaei]

you should call permission in to your monifest by adding this line: <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CALL_PHONE" />

[Srishti Roy]

is there no way to parse the ussd result,i need to capture the balance of my phone at regular interval,