Then for security in this Virtual Contacts Content Provider, have signed certificates in some way.
- Juan On Aug 27, 5:20 pm, jtaylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, that's the point, not to mix them. So two different contact > providers separates the two different types of contacts. > > If the other type of contact provider (not for personal contacts) > called the Virtual Contacts Content Provider isn't provided, then > developers have to make their own content provider for the users > virtual (social space contacts, etc.) contacts that are part of their > app. So it's either each app builds their own "virtual contacts" > Content Provider -or- there is a standard Content Provider for these > virtual contacts. So that's what I'm saying. > > On Aug 27, 4:43 pm, hackbod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Aug 27, 1:26 pm, jtaylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Also to mention that there should be big differences. Such as that > > > Virtual Contacts don't have a phone number. > > > It sounds to me like you are talking about a different kind of content > > provider, not the normal contacts provider. > > > > You may press a button to > > > put a virtual contact in your Personal Contacts though. Anyway, I > > > think this is very important. This was an issue with the GTalkService > > > problem I believe. But hopefully this will be in 1.0 because so many > > > apps will use Virtual Contacts and not just Personal Contacts. > > > No, there will be nothing like this in 1.0. As you've see, one of the > > reasons why the GTalk data API was removed was because of the concern > > of mixing these two kinds of people. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Announcing the new Android 0.9 SDK beta! http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2008/08/announcing-beta-release-of-android-sdk.html For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---