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Yudel Martínez
Yudel Martínez

Reputation: 81

Call intent with decimal points in an USSD code

In my android app, I want to dial an ussd code something like -- 1231*0.5# -- the code I'm using is like this

Intent callIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_DIAL); callIntent.setData(Uri.parse("tel:" + Uri.encode( "1231*"+"0.5"+"#")));

And I know that's working because I log it, and I got the right expression, but when the dialer of the phone opens, it erases the dot and shows me this. 1231*05# - YOU CAN SEE THE DOT IS MISSING.

The first it's not an encoding problem, in fact the dot is one of the unreserved characters that UTF-8 leaves untouched.

A probable solution to this problem might be answer #2 of this post... How to send a USSD code containing decimal floating point (.)? which is overwrite the intent for NEW_OUTGOING_CALL but I tried and didn't work. Does anyone has a solution for this?

Remember the problem is not about the encoding, is about changing the number that the dial Intent is getting.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 386

Answers (1)

JHH
JHH

Reputation: 9315

Dot is not a valid character in a tel: scheme intent. It's usually used to separate groups of digits in a phonenumber and I suspect it's stripped out by the dialer before sending as dtmf, even if it's an allowed alphanumeric character for USSD.

Upvotes: 0

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