Also to mention that there should be big differences. Such as that Virtual Contacts don't have a phone number. You may press a button to put a virtual contact in your Personal Contacts though. Anyway, I think this is very important. This was an issue with the GTalkService problem I believe. But hopefully this will be in 1.0 because so many apps will use Virtual Contacts and not just Personal Contacts.
Or am I missing anything? - Juan T. On Aug 27, 4:17 pm, jtaylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The problem with Contacts in mobile devices is that there are two > types of Contacts. One is what I call Personal Contacts (family and > friends) and the other is Virtual Contacts (social app friends/ > multiplayer games). The Virtual Contacts don't go in the same place as > Personal Contacts. So where do Virtual Contacts go? > > Some apps will have Virtual Contacts in the browser (on the web) and > others within the mobile app on the device. So speaking of those that > are part of a mobile app on the device, where should virtual contacts > go? If you put virtual and personal contacts together, separating > virtual contacts with a column/field value, what happens when an app > simply requests all contacts considering them all personal contacts? > So I don't see how a group field would work. > > So I think one has to set up a totally new Content Provider for > Virtual Contacts. Either from scratch for each application or unified > and having that group field so new apps can just use the 'Virtual > Contacts Content Provider'. > > So can we have that? A 'Virtual Contacts Content Provider'? > > - Juan T. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Announcing the new Android 0.9 SDK beta! http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2008/08/announcing-beta-release-of-android-sdk.html For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
