How do I allow users to dial numbers in my tableView cells?

Question

Hi all, I have a table containing cells with phone numbers. How can I allow the user to dial these numbers by tapping the cell? It's not working by default and there's no option in interface builder like there is for uiwebviews so I imagine I need to programmatically tell the app to dial the number when the cell is tapped.

Answer 1

When a cell is selected your table view delegate will get sent a message - (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath. From there, you can use the tel:\\ URL scheme to launch the phone app with the given phone number.