How to create tappable url/phone number in SwiftUI

Question

I would like to display a phone number in a SwiftUI Text (or any View), and then make it clickable so that it will open the \'Phone\'.

Is there a way to do this with

Answer 1

Thanks to Ashish's answer, I found the necessary code I needed to solve this:

In the action inside of the Button - you need to call this method:

UIApplication.shared.open(url)

to actually make the phone call / open a link in a SwiftUI View.

Of course, I didn't understand how to format my phone number at first, which I found in these answers:

How to use openURL for making a phone call in Swift?

Don't forget to add the 'tel://' to the beginning of your string/format it as URL..

The full code of what worked is

Button(action: {

    // validation of phone number not included
    let dash = CharacterSet(charactersIn: "-")

    let cleanString =     
    hotel.phoneNumber!.trimmingCharacters(in: dash)

    let tel = "tel://"
    var formattedString = tel + cleanString
    let url: NSURL = URL(string: formattedString)! as NSURL

    UIApplication.shared.open(url as URL)

}) {
Text(verbatim: hotel.phoneNumber!)
}