Hi Berto,

do you managed to render the contacts edit fields from a custom
account using the native contacts app? or for contacts view only?

thanks
Carlo

On 25 Gen, 17:25, Berto <[email protected]> wrote:
> Just an update for those of you still lost on adding custom accounts,
> sync adapters, etc.  I found a great article here:
>
> http://www.c99.org/2010/01/23/writing-an-android-sync-provider-part-1/http://www.c99.org/2010/01/23/writing-an-android-sync-provider-part-2/
>
> Part 2 was the part I needed (how to render the information you synced
> to a contact).
>
> HTH,
>
> Berto
>
> On Jan 22, 4:57 pm, Berto <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > So, it turns out that anything you put into your own ExternalSource
> > will never get parsed and therefore (theoretically) never show up.  Or
> > am I doing something wrong?  The code looks like it will parse only
> > the information in ContactsDataKind and not the EditField node from
> > the following:
>
> > <ContactsSource xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/
> > android">
> >     <ContactsDataKind
> >         android:mimeType="com.example.mimetype"
> >         android:icon="@drawable/icon"
> >         android:summaryColumn="data2"
> >         android:detailColumn="data3">
> >         <EditField column="data1" title="@string/sample_string" />
> >     </ContactsDataKind>
> > </ContactsSource>
>
> > Essentially, I have adding an account and the sync adapter working.
> > But when I try to create a new contact through the contacts app, I can
> > never see any of the fields I added in the XML structure defined by
> > "<meta-data android:name="android.provider.CONTACTS_STRUCTURE"
> > android:resource="@xml/contacts" />".  Has anyone figured out an
> > answer to this problem yet?  I've seen a few posts, but nothing with a
> > solid answer.
>
> > On Jan 12, 4:45 am, Jens <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > You could check the Email app - its the current location of the
> > > Exchange ActiveSync SyncAdapter implementation.
>
> > >http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/packages/apps/Email.git;a=s...
>
> > > Note that this adapter isn't the complete story as any contacts you
> > > create with your custom accounts will be next to useless without
> > > looking into the wonky ExternalSource.java integration required for
> > > custom adapters (unless your happy with contacts that only contains a
> > > name and photo).
>
> > >http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/packages/apps/Contacts.git;...
>
> > > Sources.java contains the "super-special-let's-not-use-our-own-API:s-
> > > because-that's-hard-work-and-might-require-us-to-actually-document-
> > > anything-or-heaven-forbid-test-it" if-statement that determines the
> > > layout of your contacts in the Contacts app - and gives super-special
> > > treatment to accounts with the type "com.google" or
> > > "com.android.exchange".
>
> > > ExternalSource.java contains the sparse and incomplete API
> > > documentation that you're going to have to use.
>
> > > On 9 Jan, 22:16, joebowbeer <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > On Dec 10 2009, 7:03 am, ydario <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > > I tried addingcontactscode to this project
>
> > > > >http://code.google.com/p/androidaccounts/
>
> > > > The referenced project no longer exists. Are there any similar
> > > > projects to check out? If not, could someone who has a handle on this
> > > > start anewproject?

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