Here is an Example to Make a Phone Call in React Native App. To make a Phone Call from React Native App we will use react-native-phone-call. With the help of this example, You can provide one tab call feature to the users of your application.
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To Make a Phone Call in React Native
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 | call = () => { //handler to make a call const args = { number: '0000000000', prompt: false, }; call(args).catch(console.error); }; |
In this example of making a Call from React Native App, we will open the contact number on a click of a button in dialer to call directly using a call(args) provided by react-native-phone-call. So let’s get started.
To Make a React Native App
Getting started with React Native will help you to know more about the way you can make a React Native project. We are going to use react-native init to make our React Native App. Assuming that you have node installed, you can use npm to install the react-native-cli command line utility. Open the terminal and go to the workspace and run
npm install -g react-native-cliRun the following commands to create a new React Native project
react-native init ProjectNameIf you want to start a new project with a specific React Native version, you can use the --version argument:
react-native init ProjectName --version X.XX.Xreact-native init ProjectName --version react-native@nextThis will make a project structure with an index file named App.js in your project directory.
Installation of Dependency
To use call we have to install react-native-phone-call package.
To install this open the terminal and jump into your project
1 | cd ProjectName |
Run the following command
1 | npm install react-native-phone-call --save |
This command will copy all the dependencies into your node_module directory. –save is optional, it is just to update the react-native-phone-call dependancy in your package.json file.
Now Open App.js in any code editor and replace the code with the following code.
App.js
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 | /*Example to make a call from the React Native App*/ import React from 'react'; import { Text, View, StyleSheet, Button } from 'react-native'; import call from 'react-native-phone-call'; export default class App extends React.Component { call = () => { //handler to make a call const args = { number: '0000000000', prompt: false, }; call(args).catch(console.error); }; render() { return ( <View style={styles.container}> <Button title="Make a Call" onPress={this.call} /> </View> ); } } const styles = StyleSheet.create({ container: { flex: 1, alignItems: 'center', justifyContent: 'center', backgroundColor: '#ffffff', }, }); |
This example will not work with IOS simulator as simulator do not provide the phone call facility in case you try to run on the simulator you will get “invalid URL provided: tel:XXXXXXXXXX”.
Error while running this example on IOS simulator
To Run the React Native App
Open the terminal again and jump into your project using.cd ProjectNamereact-native run-androidreact-native run-ios (macOS only).Android
IOS
This is how you can make a phone call from the React Native App. If you have any doubt or you want to share something about the topic you can comment below or contact us here. There will be more posts coming soon. Stay tuned!
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Great tutorial! Works. But how can i do to make the call without having to press the call button, this only places the number, and the call must be made manually? How can I do to call directly from my react native application?
Sorry I tried to find something like this but unable to find anything 🙁
It’s okay. Your tutorials are still very good help. 🙂