Chapter 12. Telephony, Networks, and the Web

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • How to make a phone call
  • Monitoring phone call events
  • How to send SMS (text) messages
  • Receiving SMS messages
  • Displaying a web page in your application
  • Checking online status and connection type
  • Getting started with Volley for Internet requests
  • Canceling a Volley request
  • Using Volley to request a JSON response
  • Using Volley to request an image
  • Using Volley's NetworkImageView and ImageLoader

Introduction

We'll start this chapter by looking at Telephony functionality with How to make a phone call. After exploring how to make a call, we'll look at how to monitor a phone call with Monitoring phone call events. We'll then move on to SMS messaging with How to send SMS ...

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