pm.hasSystemFeature(PackageManager.FEATURE TELEPHONY); always returning false

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I am trying to check if the device has telephony feature or not. But in emulator, it is always returning false. Why is it so? Am I doing something wrong.

is this your code? pm.hasSystemFeature(PackageManager.FEATURE TELEPHONY); returning false ??? its always returning false. — Padma Kumar, Oct 16 '12 at 13:45
I'm doing this: boolean hasTelephony=pm.hasSystemFeature(PackageManager.FEATURE_TELEPHONY); and for emulator it is returning false — Rookie, Oct 16 '12 at 13:48
I am having the same issue. Did you find any reason or solution? — A.J., Apr 25 '14 at 10:51

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 18 '18 at 09:02

You can also connect to an emulator console to simulate an incoming voice call or SMS. For more information, see Telephony Emulation and SMS Emulation.
End of this page: https://developer.android.com/studio/run/emulator-networking
That is normal, your emulator does't call nor it sends sms (note that Telephony includes a lot of features)

score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 02 '14 at 13:18

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You can just wrap your code in try/catch. It works in all cases, even with the last api changes about sms sending.

try{
    // code that use telephony features
}
catch(Exception e){
    // code that doesn't use telephony features
}

answered Feb 02 '14 at 13:18

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