Hi,

I'm having a problem with my application. I assign an event listener to an image, and when the user taps the image, it is supposed to open up a telephone number. Unfortunately, tel: doesn't work and wont open up the dialer on Android. Anyone know why?

system.openURL("tel:408-555-5555")

Regards,
Jordan Schuetz
Ninja Pig Studios

Just a quick way to get around the Corona issue. Instead, make the tel: link a TinyURL and call the TinyURL instead of the tel: command straight from Corona.

Remove the dashes from the phone number. That should make it work.

Actually Josh, that doesn't work. I thought the same thing you did, but when I tried it, it was unsuccessful.

Regards,
Jordan Schuetz
Ninja Pig Studios

Did you give your app permission to make a phone call? You can do so via the build.settings file as follows...

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settings =
{
        androidPermissions =
        {
                "android.permission.CALL_PHONE",
        },
}