No :( I'm needing to store data about individual contacts. Does anybody else have ideas? I really want to avoid steganography that can survive JPEG recompression, it would be an astonishing amount of suck.
On May 2, 10:12 am, jarkman <jark...@gmail.com> wrote: > The sync process seems to re-encode the jpeg. You'll need to use a > robust steganographic method... :-) > > I had read Contacts.Settings as storing settings for sync accounts, > not settings for individual contacts. Is that what you're after ? > > Richard > > On May 2, 1:00 am, Mike Hearn <mh.in.engl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I would like to store some app-specific data in the contacts db. Is it > > safe to stuff random things into the Contacts.Settings table? Will it > > affect the GUI? Does anybody have an example of doing that? It's not > > really clear to me if there's a proper mechanism for this, or if the > > settings table is reserved for the systems own use. > > > BTW my first attempt was to use an app specific database, but then > > users would uninstall the app, reinstall it later and wonder why it > > didn't work. My second attempt was to stuff the data into the JPEG > > headers but the sync process deletes them, presumably for security > > reasons. So if there's no way to store my things in the contacts db > > directly, I think I'm out of luck - I'll have to look at > > steganographically encoding the data into the raw pixels themselves! > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
