Dmitri, thanks for this. You might be right-- the user indicated an
HTC app (not Android, per se) did this sync for him. I think I may
offer an option for including ALL contacts with a simple textual
filter on their display name in an effort to weed out the filth. This
alternative mode would support people like this guy, I hope.
tone
On Apr 3, 5:21 pm, Dmitri Plotnikov <dplotni...@google.com> wrote:
> Hi Tone,
>
> This was before my time, but I think you are doing it right. As far as I
> remember, Android 1.5/6 did not support any kind of integration with
> Outlook. Whatever mechanism was used to import the Outlook contacts must
> have messed them up. On Android 1.5/6, when you were adding a contact, you
> were supposed to add it to the MyContacts group explicitly. So reading the
> MyContacts group should give you all _correctly_ imported contacts and
> filter out those automatically added by Gmail.
>
> Cheers,
> - Dmitri
>
> On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 1:03 PM, DulcetTone <dulcett...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am using this in Android 1.x:
>
> > final String[] proj = new String[] {
> > Contacts.People._ID,
> > Contacts.People.STARRED,
> > Contacts.People.NAME
> > };
>
> > final String selection = null;
> > Uri uri = Uri.parse("content://contacts/groups/system_id/"
> > + Groups.GROUP_MY_CONTACTS + "/members");
>
> > Cursor people = context.getContentResolver().query(
> > uri,
> > proj,
> > selection,
> > null,
> > Contacts.People.DEFAULT_SORT_ORDER);
>
> > and people who have contacts imported from Outlook are missing those
> > contacts.
>
> > Why is this so under-documented, with access provided through textual
> > URIs and database calls?
>
> > Can someone show me a definitive code blurb that gets all the contacts
> > in the Android contact panel and NOT those crufty pretend contacts?
>
> > Thanks in advance.
>
> > tone
>
> > On Feb 25, 1:49 am, Dmitri Plotnikov <dplotni...@google.com> wrote:
> > > I believe the system group "my contacts" was used for that purpose.
>
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