Account doesn't appear in contacts app settings on device from HTC

Question

I write my own SyncAdapter based on example in SDK. It should add contacts from external source, and it works perfect in device emulator. But when I run it on HTC Desire after all I can't see my Account in Contacts->Display options

Also I tried google's example on Desire and couldn't see them in this list too. Does anyone know any solution?

Berardo

Answer 1

I solve it by making my account visible by default.

ContentProviderClient client = getContentResolver().acquireContentProviderClient(ContactsContract.AUTHORITY_URI);
ContentValues values = new ContentValues();
values.put(ContactsContract.Settings.ACCOUNT_NAME, account.name);
values.put(ContactsContract.Settings.ACCOUNT_TYPE, account.type);
values.put(ContactsContract.Settings.UNGROUPED_VISIBLE, true);
try
{
  client.insert(Settings.CONTENT_URI.buildUpon().appendQueryParameter(ContactsContract.CALLER_IS_SYNCADAPTER, "true").build(), values);
}
catch (RemoteException e)
{
  e.printStackTrace();
}

after that account is visible by default, and you can see it in accounts list in contacts

Berardo

Must this be called from the syncadapter? – Mcneese

This does nothing in my situation.. Does it need to have at least one contact to show up? – Mcneese

It worked in 2010 with HTC Desire. A lot of things changed since this time =) – Berardo

Figured out what the problem was: I didn't use the ContactsContract.AUTHORITY_URI but my own autority. This works when you don't want to use groups. – Mcneese

Answer 2

To make your account visible in "Display options" of standard Contacts application you should have SyncAdapter in your application and it's meta-data specified in syncadapter.xml as described here.

Moreover you should specify using of android.permission.WRITE_SYNC_SETTINGS permission in AndroidManifest.xml.

UNGROUPED_VISIBLE make it visible only for list of contacts groups.

Mujik