So the specific case mentioned in my first post is not guaranteed to work since it's mixing stuff in a way that just happens to work on some devices? If so, then what's the correct way of adding extensions to persons? (haven't found any examples that are dealing with person extensions so it's hard to tell which way of doing it is the correct way)
Tauno On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Dianne Hackborn <hack...@android.com> wrote: > Yes, the definitions in android.provider are in the SDK, so must be > supported. I guess you could use them to build things that are invalid my > mixing columns from one URI with another URI, that may happen to work, but > if you follow the straight-forward definitions there you are using the SDK > and thus supported APIs. > > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 5:53 AM, tauntz <tau...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> In 1.5 and 1.6 the following code snippet works: >> --- >> import android.provider.Contacts; >> import android.provider.Contacts.People; >> >> ContentValues values = new ContentValues(); >> values.put(Contacts.ExtensionsColumns.NAME, "name"); >> values.put(Contacts.ExtensionsColumns.VALUE, "value"); >> Uri personUri = ContentUris.withAppendedId(People.CONTENT_URI, 1); >> Uri personExtensionUri = Uri.withAppendedPath(personUri, >> People.Extensions.CONTENT_DIRECTORY); >> getContentResolver().insert(personExtensionUri, values); >> --- >> >> Can we rely on the fact that the same URIs will be handled by the >> built-in content providers also in future versions/devices or is there >> a possibility that some of them do not support it by throwing a >> UnsupportedOperationException ( Unknown uri: ... )? The documentation >> for content providers says that: "Android ships with a number of >> content providers for common data types (audio, video, images, >> personal contact information, and so on). You can see some of them >> listed in the android.provider package." Does that mean that >> everything that is under android.provider.* has to be supported by all >> future Android versions/devices? >> >> >> Tauno >> >> > > > > -- > Dianne Hackborn > Android framework engineer > hack...@android.com > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to > provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such > questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and > answer them. > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
