I don't think this is something we would probably be taking in to the platform. First because we already have the existing content providers, so restructuring them all to be under a new provider while still retaining compatibility with existing apps would be a tremendous endeavor. Second because I would guess that trying to make a content provider structure general enough to hold phone call entries, SMS messages, and whatever else counts as "communication" would result in something incredibly general and thus difficult to use and with a lot of overhead.
I don't think it would be hard to write your own code to merge multiple cursors together into a single list, provided that the original cursors are all sorted in the same way. That seems like the way I would go. On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Jonathan Herriott <[email protected]>wrote: > > I was originally going to submit this post on the need for a > SortCursor, which would take in an array of Cursors and a Comparator > and treat the list of cursors as a single sorted list. Then I thought > about the real issue I'm having is the fact that there is not a common > CommunicationHistory provider. Essentially, the problem is that there > are two history tables, one for phone calls, and one for sms, and > there could potentially be many more depending on number of > applications retaining communication history. I think that the there > should be a ContentProvider for CommunicationsHistory in order to > consolidate the history to make it easier to sort/display as a single > list. I just wanted to see what other people's thoughts are before I > start on this endeavor or whether something like this would be > accepted into the framework were I to submit it as a patch. > > > -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer [email protected] Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "android-framework" 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-framework?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
