android-syncadapter

I'm trying to get a custom ContentProvider to show up under Data & synchronization, and I'm running into some problems. Namely, it's not showing up. The specifics: My AndroidManifest.xml has the provider and service: <provider android:name="BooksProvider" android:label="ClientName Books" android:authorities="com.clientname.reader.books" android:enabled="true" android:exported="true" android:syncable="true"> <grant-uri-permission android:pathPattern=".*" /> </provider> <service android:name=".sync.SyncService" android:exported="true" android:process=":sync"> <intent-filter> <action android:name

I have implemented a SyncAdapter, AccountManager and private ContentProvider along the lines of the SimpleSyncAdapter sample project in the SDK. It is all working well. Now I want to show a message to the user when new rows have been downloaded from the remote server that have a specific flag set. I need a callback from the SyncAdapter when a Sync has finished so I can do the query and display the message from an activity. I have seen a few questions on StackOverflow discussing this but none with a good answer. How does one listen for progress from Android SyncAdapter? says that the

There's a REST service that I use to populate info in my database, that is later used by my app. I've read several threads on the matter, and now have to decide how I want the sync between the REST service and my DB to work. Think of an app that gets info from google finance APIs about stocks and stores it in a DB, displays the information when the app is launched, and sends notifications when specific events happen in the stock price. I already implemented the simple option of AsyncTask that is launched when a user manually requests a sync. Now I have to implement the auto-sync and these are

I have implemented a sync adapter in my app which requires an account to be added in the device account settings. I followed the same approach given in the Android docs. It works fine till Marshmallow and I can see my account listed in the device accounts. But in Android N preview, account does not add to the device accounts. AccountManager's addAccountExplicitly() method always returns false. Has anyone faced this problem? Not sure if this is the same issue, but there's an issue with AccountManager on the current version of the Android N image. Basically, if you: Add an account to

I am changing and committing a SharedPreference in my SyncAdapter after successful sync, but I am not seeing the updated value when I access the preference in my Activity (rather I am seeing the old value). What am I doing wrong? Different Contexts? My SyncAdapter where I update the preference: class SyncAdapter extends AbstractThreadedSyncAdapter { private int PARTICIPANT_ID; private final Context mContext; private final ContentResolver mContentResolver; public SyncAdapter(Context context, boolean autoInitialize) { super(context, autoInitialize); mContext = context; mContentResolver = context

I'm having a situation with SyncAdapter I don't know how to fix. I'm using periodic syncs. The onPerformSync method just logs some info for me to know that the process is working (no calls to notifyChanges in content providers or anything else). The project consists of two apps: The first one creates a user account (for testing purposes only). The second holds the sync adapter. Note that this is perfectly legal for the scope of the project. I first install the app with the account. I can see the account has been created. Then I install the app with the sync adapter and the first time it runs