PhoneGap: Make phone call within application

Question

Is there a way to initiate a phone call within an application using PhoneGap?

I know it's possible to use tel: hyperlinks to invoke the dialer, but this means that the application is paused. I'm trying to get this to work from within the application.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

You can use the CallNumber cordova plugin (call-number on npm) to make the actual call.

To keep running in the background (when your app is paused due the dialer taking over), there is cordova-plugin-background-mode. As your app will keep running, you can use the success callback passed to the CallNumber API to do stuff when the phone-call has succeeded.