title: How to open Skype from a react-native app using Linking
body: <p>I want to be able to open Skype with a call setup with a specific username from my react-native app. I had planned to use linking to do this, For example:</p>
  
  <pre><code>onLaunchPress = () =&gt; {
    const { user } = this.props
    Linking.openURL('https://skype.com/' + user)
   .catch((error) =&gt; console.log(error))
  })
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This is not enough to add the correct query parameters, However I am unable to view the documentation on this as the page doesn't load here:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://dev.skype.com/skype-uri" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://dev.skype.com/skype-uri</a></p>
  
  <p>Any advice would be greatly appreciated, I am also concerned as to whether this is actually possible given what is posted here:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/skype/forum/skype_web-skype_messms-skype_instamessms/open-skype-for-web-from-a-react-native-app/eef6a4c6-6b05-4566-b9e1-2f13f9d05606" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/skype/forum/skype_web-skype_messms-skype_instamessms/open-skype-for-web-from-a-react-native-app/eef6a4c6-6b05-4566-b9e1-2f13f9d05606</a></p>