How do I get my custom account type to show up in the android contacts app?

Question

I\'ve created a custom account type and I can successfully create contacts of that type in the android ContactsContract ContentProvider. But I\'m having a lot of trouble fig

Answer 1

I finally figured out what the issue was.

In my sync-adapter element the android:contentAuthority attribute was set to a custom content authority for my own contacts ContentProvider, which is technically what I use to query and write contact data. But it turns out to get your contacts to show up in the default contacts app this attribute must be set to "com.android.contacts".