Can you give us some example? As I understand, AsynTask is used for
threading. How should I use it to improve speed?
I suppose I could create an AsyncTask with a method doInBackground().
This method would add only one contact at a time. Then, I call execute
a hundred times. Is this what you mean?
I will appreciate any more information :)
On 29 Mar, 12:26, Nithin <nithin.war...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Use AsyncTask to update the contacts .
>
> Nithin
>
> On Mar 29, 2:56 pm, cpphool <cpph...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > thank you for your response!
>
> > Unfortunately this method took even longer - 31sec on Magic.
>
> > On 23 Mar, 15:50, timo prill <timo.pr...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > > hey,
>
> > > try this. maybe its a faster approach to go directly through the
> > > ContentResolver instead of using createPersonInMyContactsGroup:
>
> > > ContentValues values = new ContentValues();
> > > Uri uri;
> > > String id;
> > > ContentResolver cr = getContentResolver ();
> > > for (int i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
> > > values.clear();
> > > values.put(People.NAME, "Test" + i);
> > > uri = cr.insert(People.CONTENT_URI, values);
> > > id = uri.getLastPathSegment();
> > > People.addToMyContactsGroup(cr, Long.parseLong(id));
> > > }
>
> > > cheers.
>
> > > cpphool schrieb:
>
> > > > Hi!
>
> > > > Currently, I'm using HTC Magic (1.5) and Acer Liquid (1.6) to test the
> > > > app.
>
> > > > my sample code snippet for API < 2.0:
>
> > > > for (int i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
> > > > Log.d(TAG,"iteracja " + i);
> > > > ContentValues personValues = new ContentValues();
> > > > personValues.put(Contacts.People.NAME, "Test" + i);
> > > > personValues.put(Contacts.People.STARRED, 0);
> > > > Uri newPersonUri =
> > > > Contacts.People.createPersonInMyContactsGroup(getContentResolver(),
> > > > personValues);
> > > > }
>
> > > > I did a few tests. Each time I changed NAME String in order to avoid
> > > > duplicates.
>
> > > > Results:
> > > > 1) Acer Liquid (sync off) - 12 sec
> > > > 2) Acer Liquid (sync on) - 30 sec
> > > > 3) Acer Liquid (sync on) - 55 sec
> > > > 4) Acer Liquid (sync on) - 35 sec
> > > > 5) Acer Liquid (sync off) - 13 sec
>
> > > > 1) HTC Magic (sync off) - 27 sec
> > > > 2) HTC Magic (sync off) - stuck. log from logcat:
>
> > > > ERROR/CursorWindow(13459): need to grow: mSize = 1048576, size = 279,
> > > > freeSpace() = 162, numRows = 2789
> > > > ERROR/CursorWindow(13459): not growing since there are already 2789
> > > > row(s), max size 1048576
> > > > ERROR/CursorWindow(13459): The row failed, so back out the new row
> > > > accounting from allocRowSlot 2788
> > > > ERROR/Cursor(13459): Failed allocating fieldDir at startPos 0 row 2788
> > > > DEBUG/Cursor(13459): finish_program_and_get_row_count row 2213
>
> > > > then I turned the sync off and my application started running again
> > > > (without restarting the app)! took 30 sec to complete.
>
> > > > Even if we turn off sync on HTC Magic it takes a long time to simply
> > > > add empty contacts. Adding 5000 empty contacts (without any other
> > > > operations) would take 1500sec = 25min.
>
> > > > On 23 Mar, 11:55, timo prill <timo.pr...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > > >> hi,
>
> > > >> which SDK version are you using? 1.5? 1.6? 2.0? 2.1?
> > > >> there were some changes to the contact api from 1.6 to 2.0...
>
> > > >> and maybe give a short snippet of how you insert the contacts to the
> > > >> database.
> > > >> maybe you do some (wrong) very time-consuming database-queries or you
> > > >> just missed something, because i have seen my code using the contact db
> > > >> implementation run way faster.. even with vcard-parsing & full blown
> > > >> contacts...on the htc magic
>
> > > >> cheers
>
> > > >> cpphool schrieb:
>
> > > >>> Hi!
> > > >>> I have some questions concerning importing contacts to the device,
> > > >>> which is extremely slow.
> > > >>> First of all, if you delete all your contacts, google sync will
> > > >>> restore it very quickly. However, when my app is adding contacts to
> > > >>> the device, it's very slow (a few contacts per second). Even if I add
> > > >>> almost empty contacts (with name only), it is a time-consuming
> > > >>> process.
> > > >>> If I turn google sync off, importing 5000 contacts can take 1-2 hours
> > > >>> (on HTC Magic). When google sync is on it can take up to 24hours. And
> > > >>> this happens despite the fact, that application for the whole time is
> > > >>> in the foreground, device is connected to charger and screen is on. I
> > > >>> checked the logcat to make sure my app is adding the contacts the
> > > >>> whole time, and it is.
> > > >>> I tried different methods and different devices. The results differ of
> > > >>> course, yet manually adding contacts is always significantly slower
> > > >>> that google sync. Is there any way that I can speed up the process? So
> > > >>> that importing 5000 contacts will take less than an hour.
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