Is it possible to have a Live Caller ID application with Nativescript?

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Does anyone have any idea how can I implement a Live Caller ID?

For example, if I create an application that has a contact (John Snow: +00001) and the user doesn't have that contact in the native contacts list, I would like to add the feature when the user receives a call from +00001, to show John Snow instead.

Inspiration : TrueCaller

On iOS you need to create a CallKit extension and have it register all of the names/numbers. I don't know if it possible to create a CallKit extension in NativeScript. — Paulw11, Oct 22 '18 at 19:22
As of now writing an iOS extension is not very much straight forward but still possible, here is a POC - https://github.com/NativeScript/nativescript-ios-imessages There is a open feature request for making this process easy - https://github.com/NativeScript/nativescript-cli/issues/3965 — Manoj, Oct 26 '18 at 17:16

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 22 '18 at 17:04

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Yes, that is possible. Basically you are going to use a broadcast receiver that will listen for a new incoming call, there you get the number and launch your activity / widget like TrueCaller.

answered Oct 22 '18 at 17:04

Manoj

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Thanks. Do you have any doc links where I can learn how to do that, please? – Alexandru-Claudiu Antonică Oct 26 '18 at 12:42
Check this thread - https://discourse.nativescript.org/t/can-anyone-share-sample-example-for-sms-receiver/3616 – Manoj Oct 26 '18 at 13:54
Above is just an example for writing broad cast receivers in NativeScript, you will have to do something similar for listing to incoming calls. – Manoj Oct 26 '18 at 17:18

Is it possible to have a Live Caller ID application with Nativescript?

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