Pro Android 4

Impacts of Syncing

So far, we have mainly talked about manipulating the contacts on the device. However, accounts and their contacts typically work hand in hand with syncing. For example, if you have created a Google account on your Android phone, the account will pull all your Gmail contacts and make them available to you on your device.

Every time you add a new contact on the device or a new server account, those contacts will be synced and reflected in both places.

However, we have not covered the syncing API and how it works in this edition of the book. Like contacts, it is a large topic. Knowing how contacts work significantly helps to understand the sync API. Please check our updates at www.androidbook.com.

The nature of a sync also has ...