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Title: Click to Dial Phone Number?
Post by: NJRonbo on January 17, 2013, 04:47:50 am
Kostya,

Something that I noticed is sorely absent from AquaMail and I am hoping I am simply missing something in the settings....

How is that when someone puts a phone number in an email, it does not become a link that you can press/click/touch to automatically dial it?

I hope something like this can be done because it seems to be a pretty major function.

Thanks as always

Ron

Title: Re: Click to Dial Phone Number?
Post by: bfm on April 28, 2013, 03:50:50 pm
+1
Title: Re: Click to Dial Phone Number?
Post by: DirkH on June 02, 2013, 07:11:43 pm
+2 I miss this so much since I changed from IOS to the Android world, the only thing I wasn't able to fix with some App till now. Yours Dirk
Title: Re: Click to Dial Phone Number?
Post by: mr.gimmick on September 19, 2013, 03:26:53 am
Hi guys,
New to the forum, subscribed specifically for this question.
Any joy with this query?
I like the app a lot and looking to upgrade to the paid version but this small issue is holding me back.
Cheers
Title: Re: Click to Dial Phone Number?
Post by: Kostya Vasilyev on September 20, 2013, 02:51:06 am
I made some progress on low-level code for it, but my top priority right now is EWS (Exchange Web Services).
Title: Re: Click to Dial Phone Number?
Post by: NJRonbo on September 24, 2013, 01:41:05 pm
Kostya,

Happy to see that my original question resurfaced.

I had thought there was no interest.

I understand your priorities, and hopefully, we will see click to dial added in the near future.
Title: Re: Click to Dial Phone Number?
Post by: zweird on October 18, 2013, 05:29:49 pm
Disappointed that support for the people that need EWS is prioritized over something so fundamental for everyone. Hope this gets much more attention.
Title: Re: Click to Dial Phone Number?
Post by: jcasares on October 18, 2013, 05:45:04 pm
Do you have some numbers about such statement?
I think it's not needed and prefer not to have links everywhere on my mails.

And access to mail accounts should be prioritized over other features IMO.
Title: Re: Click to Dial Phone Number?
Post by: beaky on October 19, 2013, 12:12:26 am
Do you have some numbers about such statement?
I think it's not needed and prefer not to have links everywhere on my mails.

And access to mail accounts should be prioritized over other features IMO.
In the mail app on my iPhone, any number is highlighted as a phone number.  Nine times out of ten, it is not a phone number, but an account number or something similar. The 'treat as a phone number' function is then really irritating.
Title: Re: Click to Dial Phone Number?
Post by: zweird on October 19, 2013, 03:27:44 am
If you don't think it's needed, then you must not get many emails from non-contacts that you have to call back.

EWS is fine, but hotlinking phone numbers to the dialer has been expected in Android since forever.


Do you have some numbers about such statement?
I think it's not needed and prefer not to have links everywhere on my mails.

And access to mail accounts should be prioritized over other features IMO.
Title: Re: Click to Dial Phone Number?
Post by: jcasares on October 19, 2013, 03:42:54 am
EWS is fine, but hotlinking phone numbers to the dialer has been expected in Android since forever.
Again you're making a statement without any backing. Until you demonstrate what you say do not expect people to believe.
Title: Re: Click to Dial Phone Number?
Post by: Kostya Vasilyev on October 21, 2013, 02:24:26 am
What I really love is that the tone of feature discussions is almost always so... forceful!

"This is the one feature that will make the app so great"

"I've been able to do this on my iPhone / mail app X / back in grade school with my arms tied behind my back, how come not in this app?"

"How could you release a mail app that does not do...?"

"Doesn't work with mail server xxxxx, please fix immediately and report"

Now where was I...

There is a development build posted on this very forum that has phone number highlighting (in a section called "Development builds")
Title: Re: Click to Dial Phone Number?
Post by: dirkliesenfeld on October 21, 2013, 10:09:02 am
:-D

Title: Re: Click to Dial Phone Number?
Post by: NJRonbo on January 08, 2014, 03:30:13 pm
Kostya,

Revisiting this thread after some absence.

You mentioned there is a developers build with phone number highlighting. 

Does that mean if I click on the phone number, it will automatically dial it in the dialer?

Also, I have the latest version of Aqua Mail installed.  I know it was just updated recently.

Will the Developers Build from October also have the latest updates to the present?

Thank you for continuing to improve upon an exceptional email client.  Looking forward to the new text colors that are coming.
Title: Re: Click to Dial Phone Number?
Post by: Rachel Ambler on January 09, 2014, 08:30:20 am
This feature, as far as I know, has been available for some time now. It's my understanding that if you installed a developer version last year then yes, that would have been updated with 1.3.x official within the last couple of weeks. The latest version available is 1.3.8.
Title: Re: Click to Dial Phone Number?
Post by: NJRonbo on January 09, 2014, 10:52:54 pm
Found the Developer Build Forum area, but there are dozens of builds.

Which build will give me the phone number highlighting?  And it is upgradeable to the newest release?

Thank You.
Title: Re: Click to Dial Phone Number?
Post by: Rachel Ambler on January 10, 2014, 12:28:38 am
Latest is on Google Play : 1.3.8
Title: Re: Click to Dial Phone Number?
Post by: NJRonbo on January 10, 2014, 12:31:38 am
Maybe we are not understanding each other correctly....

I need the Developer's Build with the phone number linker that will allow me to click on a phone number in Aqua-Mail and have it automatically dial phone number.

Title: Re: Click to Dial Phone Number?
Post by: Rachel Ambler on January 10, 2014, 06:21:32 pm
Maybe we are not understanding each other correctly....

I need the Developer's Build with the phone number linker that will allow me to click on a phone number in Aqua-Mail and have it automatically dial phone number.

Which is the release version, 1.3.8.

Kostya put this in some time ago as a dev item and since then it's now in the release version. You'll not find a version that does this better other than 1.3.8 - previous dev builds had a quirk here, issue there with it.

I'm on 1.3.8 and use the feature just yesterday.
Title: Re: Click to Dial Phone Number?
Post by: NJRonbo on January 10, 2014, 07:53:54 pm
Ahh, Rachel, okay...

So, the feature is now permanently included in the latest release.

I would guess I have it installed as I just recently saw an update come through on my phone