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I set up an account manager for my application which syncs contacts from my cloud service to the device. The account shows up under Accounts & Sync along with other such accounts (Google, FB, ...). After logged in it syncs web contacts to your device. The contacts are linked to that account. They are added using batch operations using the example from the android developer webpage. The problem I'm facing is that once synced the contacts can be edited, but the user can edit only the name (I'm transferring email and phone numbers too). The syncadapter has the property android:supportsUploading=

I want to have a loop be executed once every minute when datetime.utcnow().second is zero. So far I have this while True: while datetime.utcnow().second != 0: pass do_something() But the problem with this is that I am wasting cpu processes. I would use time.sleep(60) , but I don't know how it would sync with the UTC clock, because time.sleep(60) could stray from the official UTC time as time passes. Best way I can think of would be to sleep until the next minute: while True: sleeptime = 60 - datetime.utcnow().second time.sleep(sleeptime) ... If you want to be really precise: while True: t =

Can anyone explain what exactly the Android Backup API is used for? I have read Using the Backup API and Data Backup from the Developer Docs, but it is still unclear to me. When is data backed up & restored? Specifically in these situations: A user installs my app on Device 1, data is backed up, and the user then installs my app on Device 2. Is user data from Device 1 automatically put on Device 2? If so, does this occur when the app is installed or when it is launched? My app is installed on 2 devices. When a change is made on Device 1 is it automatically made on Device 2? If not, is it at

I am forced to use VSS at work, but use SVN for a personal repository. What is the best way to sync between VSS and sync? To get rid of the manual merge step, I could use a separate svn branch (svn://branches/VSS) as follows: Create a working copy of svn://branches/VSS Do a VSS Get Latest on this working copy svn commit svn merge from svn://trunk svn commit Do a VSS diff and checkout all files (without overwriting) with differences Check in those files reintegrate svn://branches/VSS into svn://trunk You could also treat this as a vendor supplied branch as defined in the redbean book: Vendor

I wish to have access to my Greasemonkey scripts across all machines I use. I already enabled the ' Enable Firefox Sync for User Scripts ' setting on Greasemonkey's settings dialog, but then I read that it only syncs externally hosted scripts . Then I attempted to set up synching with the following method: I moved Greasemonkey's ' gm_scripts ' folder (located in %appdata%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<profile name> ) to a OneDrive folder. I created a symlink in the original place pointing to the OneDrive folder mentioned above: mklink /D gm_scripts "%userprofile%\SkyDrive\App Profile Synching