@Dmitri Thanks a lot for spending time to answer my questions at least some doubts are faded off.
1) I understand to use own activity for editing and creating new contacts. 2) Ok, if i avoid ContentObserver even i had that in mind might require something to be running in background which is bad agreed. 3) But, there are two use cases first if there is a button that say sync now and i send request using requestSync() method will it start immediate sync via SyncManager or again it will depend upon SyncManager discretion?? if thats true i cannot start immediate Sync ??. Second use case how would i know if there is a change corresponding to my account in raw_contact utilizing best practice push notification ?? so that i can trigger syncing. thanks Dimitri for your time and ideas On Jan 30, 11:42 am, Dmitri Plotnikov <dplotni...@google.com> wrote: > Hi Himanshu, > > 1) SampleSyncAdapter is still a good source of inspiration. It has some > issues and plan to have them fixed in the nearest future. > > 2) In releases of Android from Eclair through Gingerbread integrated editing > of 3rd party contacts is poorly supported. The trick is to insert a data > row, "Edit in MyApp", which would take the user to your app and your app > would then provide an editor activity. Also, there is no provision in the > Contacts UI for creating new contacts in 3rd party accounts. We have fixed > those issues in Honeycomb. Now you can specify two activities in your > metadata xml file: one for creating new contacts and one for editing > existing ones and voilà! - you have seamless integration. Of course, it's a > bit too soon to rely on Honeycomb as the dominant version of Android ;-) So > for now you will need to either go with the described hack or only allow > creation/editing of contacts through your app. > > 3) Please consider an alternative to using content observers for a sync > adapter. There are several reasons: > > - In order to receive notifications, your process will need to be running at > all times. Or it would have to have a broadcast receiver, which is very very > costly. > - Content observer notifications are not reliable. If your process is not > running at the time the change occurs, the notification will never be > delivered. A broadcast receiver will solve that problem, but please don't > use broadcast receivers for this! > - Contacts provider sends out non-discriminated notifications. Whenever > anything (e.g. chat presence) changes, all observers are notified whether > they have supplied a specific URI or not. > > What you do want to use is the DIRTY flag and the CALLER_IS_SYNCADAPTER > query parameter and let SyncManager invoke your sync adapter. It does some > sophisticated scheduling and you want to take advantage of it. > > Cheers, > - Dmitri > > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 4:22 PM, himanshu jain <himanshu....@gmail.com>wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi All, > > > I am trying to implement two way sync. > > > 1) I tried using SampleSyncAdapter Code first it works on emulator but > > not on Device , then i tried to write SyncAdapter with SyncService as > > a demo app with AccountAuthenticator, as per Documentation for > > SampleSyncAdapter SyncService gets called on > > ACTION_AUTHENTICATOR_INTENT but my service does not gets started on > > device , i defined service in manifest and all things but does not > > work on device it gets started on Emulator. > > > 2) If i port my app on device i can see only first name and last name > > fields how can i see all the fields available for contact > > application ?? can i edit them also utilizing the same native > > editor??. > > > 3) I planning to add contentobserver for sync from device to cloud > > whenever there is change corresponding to my account in contact table > > i want to sync it after listening through contentobserver.Is that > > correct ??. > > > thanks > > > -- > > 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 > > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<android-developers%2Bunsubs > > cr...@googlegroups.com> > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- 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 android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
