If nothing tries to run them, they will never be instantiated and should be
fine.
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Mark Wyszomierski wrote:
> Hi Dianne,
>
> Thanks, I should have posted this fragment as well, what about these
> references:
>
>android:name=".authenticator.AuthenticationService"
>android:name="android.accounts.AccountAuthenticator" />
>android:name="android.content.SyncAdapter" />
>
> these are service definitions, will the references to
> android.accounts.* also just be ignored?
>
> Thanks again, sample extract below:
>
>
>
> from the sample:
>
>android:icon="@drawable/icon"
>android:label="@string/label">
>
>android:name=".authenticator.AuthenticationService"
>android:exported="true">
>
>
> android:name="android.accounts.AccountAuthenticator" />
>
>android:name="android.accounts.AccountAuthenticator"
>android:resource="@xml/authenticator" />
>
>android:name=".syncadapter.SyncService"
>android:exported="true">
>
>android:name="android.content.SyncAdapter" />
>
>android:name="android.content.SyncAdapter"
>android:resource="@xml/syncadapter" />
>android:name="android.provider.CONTACTS_STRUCTURE"
>android:resource="@xml/contacts" />
>
>
>
>
> On Jul 30, 11:26 am, Dianne Hackborn wrote:
> > Yes permissions on older platforms will be ignored. Since older
> platforms
> > don't know about sync adapters, they just won't do anything with them.
> >
> > Do be sure of course to test your code on an older platform to be sure
> all
> > is well, though.
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Mark Wyszomierski >wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > Hi,
> >
> > > I'm looking at the sample sync adapter here:
> >
> > >http://developer.android.com/resources/samples/SampleSyncAdapter/inde.
> ..
> >
> > > I'd like to still support sdk level 3 and 4 devices. Will including
> > > the following lines in my app's manifest be problematic?:
> >
> > > > >android:name="android.permission.AUTHENTICATE_ACCOUNTS" />
> > > > >android:name="android.permission.READ_SYNC_STATS" />
> >
> > > are these specific to sdk level 5?
> >
> > > Ideally, we could include these for level 3 and 4 users, and they just
> > > won't be shown the contact sync option at all. Is this how it's meant
> > > to work?
> >
> > > Thanks
> >
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