android-syncadapter

The press release of Android 2.0 states that the new release supports sync adapters so that emails and calendars cannot only be synced with gmail and exchange. However, there is no information available online how to write such a sync adapter. Has anyone tried it and some example code available? white_gecko These two articles by Sam Steele (January 23rd, 2010) are about the implementation of the last.fm sync adapter. Do not miss the second part and the opensource projects that are mentioned at the end of the articles. http://www.c99.org/2010/01/23/writing-an-android-sync-provider-part-1/ http:

My sync adapter does work perfectly well except for one little thing which bugs the sh*t out of me for the last few hours... For my app i want the sync adapter to run with an interval of 10 seconds. ContentResolver.addPeriodicSync(mAccount, AUTHORITY, Bundle.EMPTY, 5); What happens is that the sync starts every 60 seconds instead of the requested 5 seconds. When i change the interval to 70 seconds then the sync starts every 70 seconds. From the log file: W/ContentService﹕ Requested poll frequency of 5 seconds being rounded up to 60 seconds. Or, to be sure that the ContentService is taking

I'm writing my own ContentProvider which will be synced to a web service using a SyncAdapter. Problem happens when the sync adapter is modifying the content provider's data the provider triggers a network sync when internally calling getContentResolver().notifyChange causing a sync loop. The notifyChange with the network sync flag is required for when a client application does the modification but should be avoided when the sync adapter is modifying. How can one, inside a contentprovider, easly tell if it's being used by a client application (which should trigger network sync upon modification

I develop an app which needs to do 2 things: Create a user account (like WhatsApp). Whenever there is a new contact entry, if the contact is using my app, then immediately in the Contacts application show options "call" or "message" in the contact detail page. Example You need to create a SyncAdapter , this is basically a service that is able to sync contacts to/from a server, like Google does for Google Contacts , you can set it to be notified when a new contact is added, and have your SyncAdapter add the needed info to the contact so it'll show links to your app. If you go to your phone