Re: [Linphone-developers] Uninstalling Linphone on Android seems to remove all Contacts - what does initializeSyncAccount do?

[Sylvain Berfini]

Please find my answers below.

Sylvain Berfini
Software Engineer @ Belledonne Communications

Le 08/06/2020 à 14:49, Greg Troxel a écrit :
> Sylvain Berfini <sylvain.berfini@belledonne-communications.com> writes:
>
> > Yes, contacts & modifications made through linphone app are stored by
> > Android under a raw id that is "owned" by our app, and Android removes
> > them when the app is uninstalled.
> Do you mean:
>
>    I have a contact on my carddav server.
>
>    in linphone, I somehow add a sip address to it
>
>    I remove linphone
>
>    The entire contact is removed?  Or the sip address is removed?
No, only the SIP address will be removed.
> Why does this behavior make sense?  Just because a contact entry was
> made or modified by an app does not mean it should be removed when the
> app is gone.  Consider someone using one mail client, storing email
> addresses, and using a different client.
>
> > When this mode is disabled,
> Which mode is this?  I flipped through settings in linhphone android
> (from f-droid) and cannot figure it out.
It currently is a build setting, not a runtime setting.
> > SIP addresses are stored in the standard
> > SIP field of the contact, however many contact applications are only
> > displaying one.
> Do you mean that the contact database has a sip field, but that
> some/most contact display applications don't show it, and thus it's hard
> to deal with?
Most applications do show it, but most of them only show one entry.
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Sylvain Berfini
> > Software Engineer @ Belledonne Communications
> Thank you very much for participating in the list.   I think it makes a
> huge difference, and I hope comments from the community lead to
> improvements in linphone, for both open source users and for your
> proprietary license customers.