Android Wireless Application Development

13. Using Android Telephony APIs

Although the Android platform has been designed to run on almost any type of device, the Android devices available on the market are primarily phones. Applications can take advantage of this fact by integrating phone features into their feature set.

Generally speaking, developers should consider an Android device first and foremost as a phone. Although these devices might also run applications, phone operations generally take precedence. Your application should not interrupt a phone conversation, for example. To avoid this kind of behavior, your application should know something about what the user is doing, so that it can react differently. For instance, an application might query the state of the phone ...