Hi all. New to Android Development and StackOverflow as well so my apologies if I'm going about asking this incorrectly.
To make a long story short, I'd like to add an icon to the Contact Info screen, specifically to a contact's phone number. In other words, I want you to see the icon to make a call, the one to send an SMS message, and also an additional icon to launch my Activity on that number.
I'm not trying to add data about a contact to the database or anything quite so well documented, but merely do "something else" with a phone number and make it easy for the user to do that from the Contact Info screen. I have a sinking feeling this may not be possible because if it were, I would think Skype would be all over this so you could make a Skype call directly from the Contact Info screen as well, but it doesn't appear to.
Alternatively, my other option would be (since my app is really just an alternative method to call a contact) to have the user presented with a "Do you want to Call the normal way or call using Joe's App" dialog when he tried to call a contact much like you get the choice between browser and GoogleMaps for locations. I guess this would be done via an IntentFilter such that my app would be able to handle a "CALL" Intent? Again, I'm insanely new at this (like days in) and I apologize for the noobishness of this question if it is such.
Basically I'd love a pointer down the right track towards implementing such a thing.
Thanks in advance
-Joe