Intent.ACTION does not dial after first # sign

Question

I am trying to make a call with a long number that looks something like this.

tel:883994555,,,32343#,,,#

with code that looks like this.

Answer 1

Uri.parse(String) parses an RFC 2396-compliant, encoded URI.

RFC 2396 says:

The character "#" is excluded because it is used to delimit a URI from a fragment identifier in URI references.

Answer 2

How I got this to work was to use ';' (semicolon) for the hard wait instead of the 'w', and ',' (comma) for the pause, and then encode the phone number first, like this -

Uri.parse(String.format("tel:%s", Uri.encode(number)))