Example to Make a Phone Call in React Native App

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.

To Make a Phone Call in React Native

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-cli

Run the following commands to create a new React Native project

react-native init ProjectName

This 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

Run the following command

This command will copy all the dependencies into your node_module directory, You can find the directory in node_module the directory named react-native-phone-call.

–save is optional, it is just to update the react-native-phone-call dependancy in your package.json file.

Dependency Version for this Example used is

Now Open App.js in any code editor and replace the code with the following code.

App.js

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 ProjectName

To run the project on an Android Virtual Device or on real debugging device

react-native run-android

or on the iOS Simulator by running

react-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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