Activate my app or u can say a service when android gets a incoming call

Question

I would like to build an android app that will read the incoming caller name or number(if its not stored in phonebook). but I dont know how to do it. I am very novice in android programming. I guess i need to start a service like something that will run in background and listen of incoming calls and start my app. could anybody please help with sample code? Thanks

Answer 1

Here is ultimately a similar question to yours; Incoming call broadcast receiver ... and yet again here; Retrieve incoming call's phone number in Android

Please read about broadcast receivers here http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/BroadcastReceiver.html ...... also get familiar with telephony manager here; http://developer.android.com/reference/android/telephony/TelephonyManager.html

I think everything will make more sense then!