>From my reading of the sources (2.1) a custom account contact is not editable on the phone outside of the name fields.
The contact editor does not read the relevant information out of the contacts.xml. It only reads enough to support what you'd see in the Facebook type account. The source fix would likely be trivial: just use the fallback source mapping as the baseline. On Feb 26, 12:49 am, sazilla <[email protected]> wrote: > 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... > > > 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? -- 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
