The big reason to use any of those apps is that your friends do. Nor did whatever Google is calling its latest messaging foray. Neither iMessage, SMS, nor Android Messages made this list. So when it came to putting together this list, that freed me up to be pretty strict about the requirements for inclusion. If that's SMS or smoke signals, you have my full permission to use it. READ_CONTACTS permission is required.I still believe the best texting app is normally the one people will actually reply to you with. Second one crashes claiming that there is no Activity found to handle Intent?Īny idea what is happening and how could this be resolved ?Įrror log is as follows: 01-27 17:35:03.794: E/AndroidRuntime(7738): FATAL EXCEPTION: mainĠ1-27 17:35:03.794: E/AndroidRuntime(7738): : No Activity found to handle Intent ĬontactId = cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndexOrThrow(ContactsContract.PhoneLookup._ID)) First one just calls using Skype, not even offering Dialer (!?!), but if Skype is not installed then it will fall back to Dialer and place call. Since last Viber update (we noticed it yesterday), none of those methods work.

ViberCallIntent.putExtra('contact_id', -1L) ViberCallIntent.putExtra('external_call', true) Intent viberCallIntent = new Intent('.CALL')

Second solution was to explicitly call Viber and place a phone Possible means for placing call - in this particular case, they wereĭialer and Viber and Skype (or any other method added later). Which would open new window offering for call to be made by all A while ago I created this post, and my colleague and I have found two different answers to it (both of them worked):

How to change background in viber chat