Just to finish out the thread, one more piece of progress:
The android system passes along the ID of the contact to the Activity
(in the example above, called MyActivityName) in the calling intents
getData() (in the form of content://com.android.contacts/data/9 for
example).
So:
class MyActivityName extends Activity
{
onCreate(Bundle b)
{
Log.d(TAG, getIntent().getDataString()); //this will show you
the URI such as content://com.android.contacts/data/9
Uri rawUri = getIntent().getData();
}
}
Use this URI to lookup the RawContact and then show the relevant
information from your 3rd party account.
On Sep 20, 3:07 pm, Nik Bhattacharya <[email protected]>
wrote:
> I am guessing from the lack of response, either nobody is interested
> or nobody really knows. Well, I made some progress on figuring out
> this seemingly undocumented feature.
>
> Here are some of the findings/relevant links to the relevant
> information:
>
> When creating RawContacts, the Sync Service provides a <meta-data>
> file that contains ContactsDataKind information. Each
> ContactsDataKind must have a mimetype associated with it.
>
> See:http://developer.android.com/resources/samples/SampleSyncAdapter/Andr...http://developer.android.com/resources/samples/SampleSyncAdapter/res/...
>
> Note in the above contacts.xml metadata file, the use of the mimetype:
> android:mimeType="vnd.android.cursor.item/
> vnd.samplesyncadapter.profile"
>
> This should make the ContactsDataKind show up in the ContactDetails
> screen. Now for integrating with the Quick Contacts menu, it is
> necessary to define an Activity in the AndroidManifest.xml that has
> the mimetype above in the data section:
>
> <activity>
> android:name=".MyActivityName"
> android:icon="@drawable/sampleicon"
> <intent-filter>
> <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW"/>
> <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT"/>
> <data android:mimeType="vnd.android.cursor.item/
> vnd.samplesyncadapter.profile"/>
> </intent-filter>
> </activity>
>
> This is how far I have gotten so far. Will update more if there is
> interest in this thread.
>
> On Sep 19, 6:55 pm, Nik Bhattacharya <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Bump.
>
> > Can anyone help on this subject? How do I integrate with the quick
> > contacts menu?
>
> > On Sep 9, 10:39 am, Nik Bhattacharya <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
>
> > > I would like to add an quick contact option to the Quick Contact
> > > window that displays for a contact. How do I get this option to show
> > > up when the user taps on a contact? I looked at the Facebook and
> > > Twitter applications and can see that they have this:
>
> > > Facebook:
>
> > > <activity name=".ProfileTabHostActivity>
> > > <intent-filter>
> > > <action name="android.intent.action.VIEW"/>
> > > <category name="android.intent.catefory.DEFAULT"/>
> > > <data
> > > mimeType="vnd.android.cursor.item/vnd.facebook.profile"
> > > host="com.android.contacts"/>
> > > </intent-filter>
> > > </activity>
>
> > > Twitter:
>
> > > <activity name=".ProfileTabActivity>
> > > <intent-filter>
> > > <action name="android.intent.action.VIEW"/>
> > > <category name="android.intent.catefory.DEFAULT"/>
> > > <data
> > > mimeType="vnd.android.cursor.item/vnd.twitter.profile"
> > > host="com.android.contacts"/>
> > > </intent-filter>
> > > </activity>
>
> > > First of all, I am not sure that the snippets above are *really* what
> > > get used to plug into the quick contacts. It's just an educated
> > > guess. I still am at a bit of a loss to figure out exactly how to
> > > plug into the quick contact window (for example, which xml/java file
> > > did Facebook/Twitter apps use to declare their intent to plug into the
> > > quick contact window, declare the icon to show etc?).
>
> > > I am not specifically interested in Facebook/Twitter, its just that
> > > these apps have plugged into the new API successfully. I am just
> > > looking for an end to end example (ideally) or simply pointers to how
> > > to integrate my contacts sync info into the quick contacts menu.
>
> > > Any help is much appreciated.
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