What you are trying to do is probably much more sophisticated than what most people are doing with Contacts, so I wouldn't expect much help.
If I were in your situation, I'd download the source to the Contact app and the Contact provider and see what they are doing. Debugging this with the source code should be very doable. On Jul 14, 5:33 am, Alvin <[email protected]> wrote: > anyone helpe? > > On Jul 13, 2:29 pm, Alvin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > here's a few things i couldn't figure out and could find anyone else > > posting them in the discussion: > > 1. > > In the new API > > ContactsContract.AggregationExceptions table does not really work for > > me: when I try to insert a row into the table, it gives me this error: > > > 07-13 14:20:09.399: ERROR/XXXXX(3074): > > java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: URI: > > content://com.android.contacts/aggregation_exceptions, calling > > user: ............ > > my code here: > > > ContentValues values = new ContentValues(); > > values.put(AggregationExceptions.RAW_CONTACT_ID1, > > String.valueOf(oldRawContactId)); > > values.put(AggregationExceptions.RAW_CONTACT_ID2, > > String.valueOf(newRawContactId)); > > values.put(AggregationExceptions.TYPE, > > AggregationExceptions.TYPE_KEEP_TOGETHER); > > mContentResolver.insert(AggregationExceptions.CONTENT_URI, values); > > > and I'm sure the two raw contact id exists. > > > 2. > > in the old API: > > when I create a group in Contact book, the name of the group is not > > shown(or not shown correctly) > > here's the code: > > > ContentValues values = new ContentValues(); > > values.put(Contacts.Groups.SHOULD_SYNC, 1); > > values.put(Contacts.Groups.SYSTEM_ID, mGroupID); > > values.put(Contacts.Groups.NAME, mGroupTitle); > > mContentResolver.insert(Contacts.Groups.CONTENT_URI, values); > > > 3. > > in the old API: > > when I insert a custom IM contact method for a contact, the data is > > inserted and shown correctly, but user cannot edit the contact using > > the default contact app any more. If I remove the contact method, user > > can edit the contact again. > > here's the code for inserting the contact method: > > > ContentValues values = new ContentValues(); > > values.put(ContactMethods.PERSON_ID, newContactId); > > values.put(ContactMethods.KIND, Contacts.KIND_IM); > > values.put(ContactMethods.TYPE, ContactMethods.TYPE_CUSTOM); > > values.put(ContactMethods.AUX_DATA, > > ContactMethods.encodeCustomImProtocol(MYIM_PROTOCOL)); > > values.put(ContactMethods.DATA, buddyId); > > values.put(ContactMethods.ISPRIMARY, 0); > > values.put(ContactMethods.LABEL, IM_LABEL); > > > mContentResolver.insert(ContactMethods.CONTENT_URI, values);- Hide quoted > > text - > > - Show quoted text - -- 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] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
