[Feature]: Add a plugin to pass phone calls

[JulienLecoq]

Description

Add a plugin to pass phone calls

Platforms

• iOS
• Android
• Web

Request or proposed solution

Capacitor currently lacks a plugin for making phone calls. Therefore, it’s not possible to initiate a phone call by long-pressing a phone number in an ion-item (an Ionic component), for example. I need this for my mobile application.

I don't know if this would be possible to implement on Web since long presses are not detected as user input, shitty web... as usual, but I assume this should be possible on iOS/Android since I don't think there is the same limitation.

Alternatives

There is this community plugin: https://github.com/mantosh59/call-number

But it does not seem to be maintained and does not seem to work.

Additional Information

No response

[jcesarmobile]

You should be able to use anchor tags (a) to call to numbers, i.e. <a href="tel:666666666">666666666</a>. Not on long press though, a simple click will show the options to call or open phone app with the number dialled depending on the OS and device.

Also app-launcher plugin seems to work for calling too, i.e. AppLauncher.openUrl({ url:'tel:666666666' });.

If none of those is acceptable for your use case you could create a proposal on capacitor-community proposals repository