The answer is: yes you do. Your sync adapter will need to "adopt" the no-account contacts, otherwise some other syncadapter will claim them and then synchronization will become impossible. The no-account contacts literally have accountType=NULL so they are easy to find. Find them and assign the account type/name right away. Please note that once you have a sync adapter in the system, you can no longer create any no-account contacts. At least that is true for the stock implementation of Android.
Cheers, - Dmitri On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 2:14 AM, L0rdAli3n <[email protected]>wrote: > Thanks for those informationen Dmitri. > > To make it clear: I "just" want to sync the contacts a user saved on > his > local phonebook/adressbook (no gmailcontacts, no facebookcontacts, no > twittercontacts) > with openXChange. Do I really need a new AccountType then? So a user > will have a openXChange-Contacts, beside the phonebook-Contacts? > > On 19 Jan., 09:02, Dmitri Plotnikov <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am sorry. I guess I just don't understand the requirements. I thought > you > > were writing a sync adapter. Sync adapters all deal with their own > > accounts. Google sync adapter deals with google accounts, exchange > adapter > > with exchange accounts and so on. If you are thinking of writing a sync > > adapter that would handle data already handled by some other sync > adapter, > > it is probably a bad idea. The framework is not designed to have multiple > > sync adapters handling the same data: only one syncadapter can take > > advantage of data versioning. This why I suggested that if you are > writing a > > sync adapter, you should introduce a new account type. This is how they > are > > supposed to work by design. > > > > Cheers, > > Dmitri > > On Jan 18, 2011 5:43 PM, "L0rdAli3n" <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > Thanks for your answer Dmitri! > > > > > Could you explain in few words, how I can use the contacts the user > > > stored on his phone, > > > which in fact all have already an account_type, by introducing my own > > > accout_type? > > > > > On 14 Jan., 16:26, Dmitri Plotnikov <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> I don't fully understand your requirements, but it shouldn't matter > what > > >> _other_ data is in the contacts DB. A sync adapter should only deal > with > > >> its own data. Why not introduce a new account type for this purpose? > > > > >> Cheers, > > >> Dmitri > > >> On Jan 14, 2011 5:16 AM, "L0rdAli3n" <[email protected] > > > > >> wrote: > > > > >> > Hey, > > > > >> > I'm totally stuck with the ContactsContract-API. Point is that I > want > > >> > only mess around with the Contacts saved in the "local" phonebook. > But > > >> > it seems that every vendor but its own account_type for those > > >> > contacts. > > >> > And its even worse. The AccountManager isn't even aware of all > > >> > account_types?!? > > >> > For example on my HTC Desire with HTC Sense, the account_type all > > >> > local contacts are saved in is: com.htc.android.pcsc. But when I > grab > > >> > a list of all available accounts from the AccountManager: This > account > > >> > is not in the list!? > > >> > I also tested it on a Samsung Galaxy. Same here: The AccountManager > is > > >> > not aware of the account_type used for local phonebookcontacts. > > > > >> > The whole story is that I wan't to write a app to sync my locale > > >> > phonebook with OpenXchange. > > > > >> > I guess I got that whole new ContactsContract-API wrong, but I don't > > >> > see any other way, then using RawContacts. Due to that I have to > care > > >> > about the account_type, which is in fact a total mess. > > > > >> > Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction. 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