How to detect and manage incoming call (Android)?

I want to create an applica开发者_如何学Pythontion that can detect incoming calls and start my custom activity after a certain number of beeps (rings), I mean after 2 or 3 or 5 beeps (rings) my activity is triggered. How can I do it?

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I don't think you can count the number of rings the phone made since the start of the incoming call. There can't be a definitive measure of a single ring because the user can easily change the ringtone to a non-repetitive tune, for example, a song.

What you can do, however, is count the amount of time that passed since the arrival of the call. Set up a BroadcastReceiver for PHONE_STATE (you will need the corresponding permission in the manifest to receive the event). Once you receive the EXTRA_STATE_RINGING that came with the PHONE_STATE, set an alarm via the AlarmManager that will fire a Service that checks if EXTRA_STATE_OFFHOOK (broadcast when the call is picked up) has been broadcast after your waiting time. If not, then you can start your answering machine.

I have written a quick tutorial in my website on how to catch the call's arrival (when the phone rings), when the call is picked up, and when it ends.

My article about detecting incoming and outgoing calls, with the step-by-step instructions: Detecting incoming and outgoing phone calls on Android

When you detect incoming call, you can start a timer, with interval equal to beepInterval * beepCount. And launch activity on this timer.