The sync process seems to re-encode the jpeg. You'll need to use a
robust steganographic method... :-)

I had read Contacts.Settings as storing settings for sync accounts,
not settings for individual contacts. Is that what you're after ?

Richard


On May 2, 1:00 am, Mike Hearn <[email protected]> wrote:
> I would like to store some app-specific data in the contacts db. Is it
> safe to stuff random things into the Contacts.Settings table? Will it
> affect the GUI? Does anybody have an example of doing that? It's not
> really clear to me if there's a proper mechanism for this, or if the
> settings table is reserved for the systems own use.
>
> BTW my first attempt was to use an app specific database, but then
> users would uninstall the app, reinstall it later and wonder why it
> didn't work. My second attempt was to stuff the data into the JPEG
> headers but the sync process deletes them, presumably for security
> reasons. So if there's no way to store my things in the contacts db
> directly, I think I'm out of luck - I'll have to look at
> steganographically encoding the data into the raw pixels themselves!
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