Can an activity receive an unordered broadcast(incoming call) intent before system's default receiver?

Question

Here is the scenario :

An activity is displayed(active). If a phone call comes, the activity should receive the intent (send the "incoming call screen" to the background/hide it from the display) and itself remain visible to the user. I dont necessarily want to suppress the incoming phone call as I have read in a lot of questions that it is not possible with public APIs.

All I want is to somehow make that android's default incoming call screen hidden by my activity on the top.

This behavior is only required when my activity is visible which is NOT EQUAL TO having a PHONE_STATE broadcast receiver to start my activity. The latter question has been answered a number of times on SO.

Please help me. I have been looking for directions for almost a day now.

Thanks for your time.

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:11

This is how I solved it :

Manifest.xml

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE"/>
...
<receiver android:name=".MyPhoneBroadcastReceiver">
<intent-filter android:priority="99999">
    <action android:name="android.intent.action.PHONE_STATE" />
    </intent-filter>
</receiver>

<activity android:name=".LockScreenActivity" android:noHistory="true" android:label="@string/app_name" >
    <intent-filter>
        <action android:name="android.intent.action.ANSWER" />
         <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
    </intent-filter>    
 </activity>

MyPhoneBroadcastReceiver.java

public void onReceive(final Context context, Intent intent) {
    Bundle extras = intent.getExtras();
    ...
    if (extras != null) {
    String state = extras.getString(TelephonyManager.EXTRA_STATE);

     if (state.equals(TelephonyManager.EXTRA_STATE_RINGING)) {
             new Handler().postDelayed(new Runnable() {
          public void run() {
              Intent intentPhoneCall = new Intent("android.intent.action.ANSWER");
                      intentPhoneCall.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
          context.startActivity(intentPhoneCall);
                  }
             }, 100);
         }
    }
}

LockScreenActivity.java - A regular activity class with UI that shows up saying your screen is locked. It covers 100% area of your screen i.e. no navigation/status bar. Also the HOME/MENU keys have been disabled. This is how I achieved that : How can I detect user pressing HOME key in my activity?

P.S. : The trick is not the main logic but a 100ms delay. Without it your custom(home) lock screen will be removed by the system default incoming call screen everytime you get a call on the phone!

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 26 '12 at 07:56

Ya sanjana is right that code works for me.. but instead of giving postdelay 100msec give more then 1.5 sec.. Bcoz to start incoming screen needs 800 to 1000msec.. I copied her code only but modified a bit.. Try this works fine...

@Override
public void onReceive(final Context context, Intent intent) {

    Bundle extras = intent.getExtras();

    if (extras != null) {
        String state = extras.getString(TelephonyManager.EXTRA_STATE);
        final String incomingNumber = extras.getString("incoming_number");

        Handler callActionHandler = new Handler();

        Runnable runRingingActivity = new Runnable() {

            @Override
            public void run() {
                Intent intentPhoneCall = new Intent("android.intent.action.ANSWER");
                intentPhoneCall.putExtra("INCOMING_NUM", incomingNumber);
                intentPhoneCall.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
                context.startActivity(intentPhoneCall);
            }
        };

        if (state.equals(TelephonyManager.EXTRA_STATE_RINGING)) {
            callActionHandler.postDelayed(runRingingActivity, 2000);

        }

        if (state.equals(TelephonyManager.EXTRA_STATE_IDLE)) {
            callActionHandler.removeCallbacks(runRingingActivity);
            // setResultCode(Activity.RESULT_CANCELED);
        }

    }
}

Then use PhoneStateListener at receiver class side.. I used like this....

/*********** My receiver class onCreate() contains ************/
TelephonyManager telephony = (TelephonyManager)    
getSystemService(getApplicationContext().TELEPHONY_SERVICE);
        telephony.listen(myListener, PhoneStateListener.LISTEN_CALL_STATE);

class MyPhoneStateListener extends PhoneStateListener {

     Activity curActivity;

     public MyPhoneStateListener(Activity _curActivity){
         this.curActivity = _curActivity;

     }

        public void onCallStateChanged(int state, String incomingNumber) {
            switch (state) {
            case TelephonyManager.CALL_STATE_IDLE:
                Log.i("TEST APP", "Cal End");                   
                curActivity.finish();                   
                break;

            case TelephonyManager.CALL_STATE_OFFHOOK:
                Log.i("TEST APP", "Hello");                 
                break;

            case TelephonyManager.CALL_STATE_RINGING:
                Log.i("TEST APP", "Calling...");

                break;
            }

        }
    }

didn't work for me. still the android default app shows first. where should I put the last code snippet in ? — MSaudi, Nov 22 '13 at 18:17

Can an activity receive an unordered broadcast(incoming call) intent before system's default receiver?

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