How to make a call on button click in a ListView?

Question

I have done the following code inside of my getView() method of CustomAdapter class. If I try to simply show a Toast, Toast appears, but if i do the following code to make a call, application crashes. What i am doing wrong here?

                call.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
                @Override
                public void onClick(View view) {
                    Intent callIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_CALL);
                    callIntent.setData(Uri.parse("tel:" + phone.getText().toString()));
                    context.startActivity(callIntent);
                }
            });

and the stacktrace shows this error :

AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main Process: com.example.hammad.contactme, PID: 26713 android.util.AndroidRuntimeException: Calling startActivity() from outside of an Activity context requires the FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK flag.

did you get the correct permission for making call in **Manifest** and Run time if you are one Android 6+ ? — SepJaPro2.4, Apr 23 '17 at 12:17
You need to look at [the stack trace](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23353173) to determine the exact cause of the crash. — Mike M., Apr 23 '17 at 12:30
Calling startActivity() from outside of an Activity context requires the FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK flag. — Hammad Naeem Khan, Apr 23 '17 at 12:39
Please [edit] your question to add that detail. Anyway, it sounds like you got your `context` from `getApplicationContext()`. Make sure to use the `Activity` when instantiating your `Adapter`, not get `getApplicationContext()`. This will also ensure that the inflated `View`s have the correct theme. — Mike M., Apr 23 '17 at 12:47

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 23 '17 at 12:21

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Try adding the correct permission for making call in AndroidManifest

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CALL_PHONE" />

and if you are running on android 6.0 or above you should also get this permission on runtime

getting runtime permission

answered Apr 23 '17 at 12:21

SepJaPro2.4

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both runtime and manifest ?! can you add your error stack trace ? – SepJaPro2.4 Apr 23 '17 at 12:28
can you add your stack trace ? – SepJaPro2.4 Apr 23 '17 at 12:34
Is this a problem? – Hammad Naeem Khan Apr 23 '17 at 12:43
E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main Process: com.example.hammad.contactme, PID: 26713 android.util.AndroidRuntimeException: Calling startActivity() from outside of an Activity context requires the FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK flag. Is this really what you want? – Hammad Naeem Khan Apr 23 '17 at 12:43
add `myIntent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);` to your intent see if that helps – SepJaPro2.4 Apr 23 '17 at 12:46
happy to help ;) – SepJaPro2.4 Apr 23 '17 at 12:50

How to make a call on button click in a ListView?

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