988395 - Allow other dialers to be invoked from the Dialpad

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Gaia::Dialer, defect)

Description

[Maria Angeles Oteo (:oteo)]

When the user clicks on the "Dial" button on the dialer, the call is directly done using  MozTelephony API. This means that if any other way to dial-in a phone number is installed on the device, the user will not be offered to choose that alternative. This affects, for instance, the Loop client.

In order to make Loop more discoverable, we suggest to use an Activity in this case so the user can choose which one from the applications capable to dial a number he wants to use.

Current "Dial Activity" requires users to click on the "Dial Button" so we need to modify that activity slightly so that it is possible to allow the app to dial the number automatically (without users clicking on Dial) in some situations. In Bug 988392 we propose to use a HMAC Validation mechanism for this purpose.

Comment 1

[Fernando Jiménez Moreno [:ferjm]]

According to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=988279#c1 this won't be part of Loop integration.