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I need to know how to toggle auto sync on and off programmatically. kingston I think you are looking for ContentResolver.setMasterSyncAutomatically(<boolean>); What docs says: Sets the master auto-sync setting that applies to all the providers and accounts. If this is false then the per-provider auto-sync setting is ignored. This method requires the caller to hold the permission WRITE_SYNC_SETTINGS. So don't forget to add permission into manifest.xml: <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_SYNC_SETTINGS" /> This should disable / enable all the syncs. @Sajmon: I updated this i

I'm debugging Gradle issues in Android Studio and see references to "Run gradle sync", but I'm not sure how to run this command. How do I run "Gradle sync" from Android studio or Mac terminal? Cai Android studio should have this button in the toolbar marked "Sync project with Gradle Files" EDIT: I don't know when it was changed but it now looks like this: EDIT: This is what it looks like on 3.3.1 OR by going to File -> Sync Project with Gradle Files from the menubar. gradle --recompile-scripts it will do a sync without building anything. Alternatively, with command line in your root project .

I need to fetch some data over the cloud from my app. I've watched the google IO video on RESTful android apps @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHXn3Kg2IQE&t=43m58s It recommends in the final slides to use a SyncAdapter to integrate with the Android System. Later I learned that one has to use an Account to implement SyncAdapter. My app does not use an account. Users can freely download data without registration. Can I still use SyncAdapter? Is there a stock dummy account that I could use? Edit: I do have a content provider for my app so that's not a problem Edit2: I've just looked at the

I was wondering if it was possible to use iCloud to sync an app's preferences file between devices. The preference file I am talking about is the com.domain.appname.plist file created by NSUserDafults to store the app's preferences. I would like to have the option of keeping my app's preferences file in sync between two different devices (an iPad and an iPhone, for example). Is this an acceptable use of iCloud syncing? Or would I need to convert the plist file into a different type of document, store it on the cloud, and convert it back into the app's preferences file upon retrieving it?

I have implemented a sync adapter and I want to get a callback when it finishes in my activity. I have tried using ContentResolver.addStatusChangeListener , but I am only getting callbacks when the sync is pending / active. Here's some relevant code from my activity: @Override protected void onResume() { super.onResume(); final int mask = ContentResolver.SYNC_OBSERVER_TYPE_ACTIVE | ContentResolver.SYNC_OBSERVER_TYPE_PENDING; syncObserverHandle = ContentResolver.addStatusChangeListener(mask, syncStatusObserver); } @Override protected void onPause() { super.onPause(); if (syncObserverHandle !=