Pie: Call Incoming returns null phone number

[Fran T]

Since upgrading my Verizon Pixel 2 XL to Android Pie, the Call Incoming block has begun to return null for the 'Caller phone number' output field. I don't know if it's related, but I have the Caller ID and Spam filter features enabled in the Android dialer app. The block's Subscription ID option is unspecified.

Missed a few calls when a flow I'm running thought everyone was an unknown caller! :-)

[Henrik "The Developer" Lindqvist]

Try granting the "read call log" privilege.

[Fran T]

Thanks for your reply!

That permission is already granted.

[Henrik "The Developer" Lindqvist]

Then it must be an Android bug, i'll investigate:

https://developer.android.com/about/versions/pie/android-9.0-changes-all#restrict-access-phone-numbers

[Fran T]

Thanks!

Saw this just above the part of the article you linked to; maybe the trouble is related to them moving the permission to a new group?

Restricted access to call logs

Android 9 introduces the CALL_LOG permission group and moves the READ_CALL_LOG, WRITE_CALL_LOG, and PROCESS_OUTGOING_CALLS permissions into this group. In previous versions of Android, these permissions were located in the PHONE permission group.

[Henrik "The Developer" Lindqvist]

Nope, an Android bug:

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/111469746

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/110134355

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/110372762

I'll implement a workaround.

[Fran T]

Ick, it looks like there's no way back yet without adding a 100ms delay to be able to tell the difference between the new duplicate event and a private caller. Hopefully they'll get rid of the useless and confusing second broadcast in a future release.

Thank you again for your heroic support of Automate across all these devices and OS versions!

[Fran T]

Alpha version 14 of Automate resolved this problem.  Thanks!