What is the use of TelephoneNumberUtil class?

Question

I want to know the basic use of TelephoneNumberUtil class in Android. I searched on that but in the Android I'm not able to get a proper answer. Can anyone explain me the exact use of this class?

Sculpin

There's no class TelephoneNumberUtil in Android SDK. – Confraternity

Answer 1

It is a formatter for international phone numbers.

Literator

Link in answer is dead - "Status Code:404 Not Found". – Straighten

Here's a cached page copy from Internet Archive. It says that TelephoneNumberUtil class was removed in SDK v0.9. – Confraternity

Answer 2

According to the documentation public class PhoneNumberUtils contains

various utilities for dealing with phone number strings

Zins

Answer 3

Simple answer

Format an international telephone number.

Detailed Answer

if you have number 1234567890 and you need format it US number format to be like this

123-456-7890

then you should use formatNumber method

PhoneNumberUtils.formatNumbe(yourPhoneString); 

Notice this method deprecated use instead formatNumber (String phoneNumber, String defaultCountryIso)

Reference

https://developer.android.com/reference/android/telephony/PhoneNumberUtils.html

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