Retrieve incoming call's phone number in Android
Solution 1
Use PhoneStateListener
. It has an onCallStateChanged
handler; one of the supplied arguments you'll get is a String
containing the incoming phone number.
Solution 2
Your overridden method in CustomPhoneStateListener
should be called onCallStateChanged()
(and not onCallStateChange()
).
This would have been spotted by the Java compiler if you would have had the @Override
annotation, like you have for onReceive()
.
Solution 3
The above answers are out-od-dated now. There are valid for Android 7 and lower.
For android 9 and higher you have to add another permission in the Androidmanifest.xml
with the permission
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_CALL_LOG"/>
without the phone number will be null. For Android 8 I am not sure.
PhoneStateReciever.java
package com.incomingcalls;
import android.content.BroadcastReceiver;
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.telephony.TelephonyManager;
import android.util.Log;
import android.widget.Toast;
public class PhoneStateReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver {
@Override
public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
try {
System.out.println("Receiver start");
String state = intent.getStringExtra(TelephonyManager.EXTRA_STATE);
String incomingNumber = intent.getStringExtra(TelephonyManager.EXTRA_INCOMING_NUMBER);
Log.e("Incoming Number", "Number is ," + incomingNumber);
Log.e("State", "State is ," + state);
if(state.equals(TelephonyManager.EXTRA_STATE_RINGING)){
Toast.makeText(context,"Incoming Call State",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
Toast.makeText(context,"Ringing State Number is -"+incomingNumber,Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}
if ((state.equals(TelephonyManager.EXTRA_STATE_OFFHOOK))){
Toast.makeText(context,"Call Received State",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}
if (state.equals(TelephonyManager.EXTRA_STATE_IDLE)){
Toast.makeText(context,"Call Idle State",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}
}
catch (Exception e){
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
AnroidManifest.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
package="com.incomingcalls">
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_CALL_LOG" />
<application
android:allowBackup="true"
android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher"
android:label="@string/app_name"
android:roundIcon="@mipmap/ic_launcher_round"
android:supportsRtl="true"
android:theme="@style/AppTheme">
<activity
android:name=".MainActivity"
android:label="@string/app_name"
android:theme="@style/AppTheme.NoActionBar">
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter>
</activity>
<receiver android:name=".PhoneStateReceiver">
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.PHONE_STATE" />
</intent-filter>
</receiver>
</application>
</manifest>
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Updated on March 31, 2021Comments
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jakob about 3 years
I would like to retrieve the incoming call's phonenumber and do something with it like the do in http://blog.whitepages.com/2009/02/27/caller-id-by-whitepages-a-new-android-app-that-puts-telemarketers-on-alert/
Could you please help me because I can't find any information about this. Where do i start and how do i get hold of the phonenumber?
Ok so currently my code looks like below. When I place the call the CustomBroadcastReceiver catches it and the log message is printed out. I can retrieve the telephone number from the bundle. But! I can't get hte CustomPhoneStateListener to work. As you can see I have registered my customPhoneState listener to the receiver but the log message never get's printed out from the CustomPhoneStateListener class. What am I my missing here? Is my thinking correct?
<receiver android:name=".CustomBroadcastReceiver"> <intent-filter> <action android:name="android.intent.action.PHONE_STATE" /> </intent-filter> </receiver> </application> <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="5" /> <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" /> <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_CONTACTS" /> <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE" />
public class CustomPhoneStateListener extends PhoneStateListener { private static final String TAG = "CustomPhoneStateListener"; public void onCallStateChange(int state, String incomingNumber){ Log.v(TAG, "WE ARE INSIDE!!!!!!!!!!!"); Log.v(TAG, incomingNumber); switch(state){ case TelephonyManager.CALL_STATE_RINGING: Log.d(TAG, "RINGING"); break; } }
public class CustomBroadcastReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver { private static final String TAG = "CustomBroadcastReceiver"; @Override public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) { Log.v(TAG, "WE ARE INSIDE!!!!!!!!!!!"); TelephonyManager telephony = (TelephonyManager)context.getSystemService(Context.TELEPHONY_SERVICE); CustomPhoneStateListener customPhoneListener = new CustomPhoneStateListener(); telephony.listen(customPhoneListener, PhoneStateListener.LISTEN_CALL_STATE); Bundle bundle = intent.getExtras(); String phoneNr= bundle.getString("incoming_number"); Log.v(TAG, "phoneNr: "+phoneNr); }
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Sagar over 4 yearsI am not getting
incoming_number
for incoming call DevicePOCO f1 pi
and receiver is getting called twice
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jakob over 14 yearsCould you please provide an example implementation?
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jakob over 14 yearsYou are the man! Thanks! I have one more question to ask and that is how do i add stuff to the incoming call view?
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mikeplate over 14 yearsI'm not sure about the specifics of that one. Your typo was easier :) However, I think what you are looking for is a Toast. But it will probably not show on the incoming call screen unless your code is a service (and not an activity). But as I said, I haven't gotten this far in Android development myself yet. developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/notifiers/toasts.html
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Gary almost 12 yearsMy answer for this question may help link
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Raz Buchnik about 4 yearsI got nothing in the incomingNumber param, what should it be?
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ingyesid over 3 yearssame thing here, not getting phone