Uh, there's a complete "sort-of-working-if-you-disregard-the- embarrassingly-huge-glaring-holes-in-the-default-contacts-app-that- Google-will-never-fix" example @ developer.android.com.
http://developer.android.com/resources/samples/SampleSyncAdapter/index.html On 31 mar, 14:25, Udayan Warnekar <udayan.warne...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am working on a contacts backup and sync. > > The target is to send all details of all contacts to a server (custom > protocol defined) as a backup. > > During initial launch of application, all the contacts will be queued and > sent to the server. And after that, a background service will be running all > time which will listen to new contact addition/ contact update, and this > new/updated contact will be sent to server by the background service. > > I am using > RawContactsEntity<http://developer.android.com/reference/android/provider/ContactsContr...> > for > fetching the records. > > I tried using ContentObserver on RawContacts/Data tables to get notification > of contact addition or contact-change. But, AFAIK, the ContentObserver gives > notification (onChange()) of changed data in table as a whole and not ID of > individual record. > > Now my problem is, how to get the exact id's of changed/new records? > > I thought of creating a backup-table to compare with native contacts table > and get the changed records. But as the number of contacts increase, the > performance will decease drastically and this will hamper the battery life > too. > > Can you suggest me, The best way for achieving this contacts backup > operation from performance and memory usage point of view? Is there any > other way for contacts sync operation? > > It would be very helpful if anyone can share examples which can help me in > this. > > -- > Regards, > *Udayan Warnekar* -- 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
