Make a phone number initiate a phone call when tapped?

Question

User129 posted

Hello,

I have a UILabel (currently) on my view that displays a phone number. I want to make that phone number initiate a call when tapped. I've searched around and found info about making it a "tel:" hyperlink, but that doesn't work for me. The UILabel just shows the code. How exactly do I force this to be a link? Or is there a better way to do it?

Thanks, Bob

Answer 1

User774 posted

You can add a "tap" gesture recognizer to the label and have it execute a call to OpenUrl() on UIApplication:

 UITapGestureRecognizer tap = new UITapGestureRecognizer(
        () => UIApplication.SharedApplication.OpenUrl(new NSUrl("tel:" + label.Text))
 );

 label.AddGestureRecognizer(tap);

Answer 2

User129 posted

Philippe, Thanks. Just tried that and I'm getting no response to the tap. Hmmmm.

Answer 3

User774 posted

I forgot to mention that you should set UserInteractionEnabled to true:

var tap = new UITapGestureRecognizer(
    tap => UIApplication.SharedApplication.OpenUrl(new NSUrl("tel:" + label.Text))
);

label.UserInteractionEnabled = true;

label.AddGestureRecognizer(tap);

Answer 4

User129 posted

Ha! I literally JUST remembered to set that. It's firing the event now. THANK YOU!