No, it has nothing to do with writing a contacts provider. The
provider is the back-end data; an activity is the user interface. You
just write a new activity that operates on the existing content
provider.
On Mar 26, 3:24 am, Diego Torres Milano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you want to write your own activity implementing those actions, how
> would you do that ?
> Implementing a new whole ContactsProvider ?
> If you only want to replace, say INSERT ?
> How your new ContactsProvider can coexist with the standard one if you
> want to extend its functionality ?
>
> On Mar 26, 7:35 am, hackbod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > The android.intent.action.INSERT and android.intent.action.VIEW
> > actions are not broadcasts, they are actions for starting activities
> > to show a UI to insert a new entry, or view an existing entry,
> > respectively. Thus you don't register for them with a <receiver>, you
> > launch them with startActivity(). (You can also write your own
> > activity implementing those actions to replace the standard UI, but
> > that's probably not what you are wanting.)
>
> > On Mar 25, 8:35 pm, "Dexter's Brain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > Thanks Megha...But, will it be provided in the subsequent releases???
>
> > > Can you think of a situation where we would need this???
>
> > > Dexter.
>
> > > On Mar 26, 3:15 am, "Megha Joshi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > > Hi,
>
> > > > I don't think that the intents for contacts added and contacts deleted
> > > > intents are broadcasted.
> > > > So you cannot receive these intents.
>
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Megha
>
> > > > On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Dexter's Brain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > wrote:
>
> > > > > Hello All,
>
> > > > > I have an Intent Receiver which I will be triggered when a contact is
> > > > > added or deleted.
>
> > > > > My reciever properties in the androidmanifest.xml are as follows.
>
> > > > > <receiver android:name=".ContactAdded">
> > > > > <intent-filter>
> > > > > <action
> > > > > ndroid:name="android.intent.action.INSERT"
> > > > > />
> > > > > <action
> > > > > android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW"
> > > > > />
> > > > > </intent-filter>
> > > > > </receiver>
>
> > > > > And in my Intent Reciever class, I have the following lines of code.
>
> > > > > public class ContactAdded {
> > > > > public void onReceiveIntent(Context context, Intent intent){
> > > > > try{
> > > > > Log.i("Received Intent", intent.getAction());
> > > > > }
> > > > > catch(Exception e){
> > > > > Log.i("Exception in
> > > > > Intent",e.getLocalizedMessage
> > > > > ());
> > > > > }
> > > > > }
> > > > > }
>
> > > > > Now, when I try to add or delete a contact, I can see in the LogCat
> > > > > that the required Intent is broadcast, but I don't see my message
> > > > > "Received Intent" in the LogCat which I have coded in my reciever
> > > > > class.
>
> > > > > Am I doing something wrong???
>
> > > > > Dexter.
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