CallNumber plugin

Ionic Framework ionic-v3
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I’m using ionic 2’s callnumber plugin to make a call in my hybrid app, however, on the ios emulator the phone number isn’t clickable, but it works just fine on android. Any ideas?

my code is:

<span (click)="call()">Phone number</span>

call(){
 this.callNum.callNumber(phonenumber, true);
}
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You need to push to your phone. iPhone’s emulator has no call capabilities nor device forwarding.

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Can you please explain (newbie to ionic)?

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build and deploy on your phone. don’t use the emulator. :slight_smile:

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gotcha. yeah I deployed the latest version of the app to my iphone, but no luck.

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You don’t need a plugin for this. use “tel:” protocol for the link. On a simulator this doesn’t work so like others have said you must deploy to a device to test this.

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i use in my app and works perfectly both android and ios

9

do you know if using tel will open the phone’s dialer?

10

it will.

as a bit of background info, the operating system gives the native phone/dialer app access because that app has already registered with the OS as the default handler for the “tel” protocol.

Another link for you:

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A piece of advice:

As a newbie, don’t chew off more than you can handle. That is – don’t get stuck putting all of your code into your one growing app.

This problem is not a difficult one to replicate, so you should be fine creating a new app in Ionic to simply show a “click me” button, and on the back end (*.ts), you’d have your “call(){…}” function.

This will tell you if any of your other code is responsible for why you can’t run it right now.

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