Get the Phone Number of the Device

How to get the Phone Number of the Device with App Inventor

Note: with the extension feature, this workaround is now obsolete. Thank you MIT!
Now you can use my Telephony Manager Extension instead.

Unfortunately there is currently no simple possibility to get a user's phone number.
However with this trick, which has been provided by Collins Owusu, the app sends a SMS with a authorization code to the phone number entered by the user and can confirm the phone number this way. Thank you Collins for this great idea!

The app will need permission to send and receive a SMS.

You probably also might be interested in the example How to get some Device specific info with App Inventor.

and How to get the Device ID within App Inventor calling a Java app.

App Inventor Blocks

• App Inventor Classic

  Version 1.1: Update of the Texting1.ReceivingEnabled blocks because of the new App Inventor Version 133.
  
  
  
  

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