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

[Sylvain Berfini]

Hi,

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.

When this mode is disabled, SIP addresses are stored in the standard SIP 
field of the contact, however many contact applications are only 
displaying one.

Cheers,

Sylvain Berfini
Software Engineer @ Belledonne Communications

Le 08/06/2020 à 13:11, Greg Troxel a écrit :
> Sylvain Berfini <sylvain.berfini@belledonne-communications.com> writes:
>
> > On the current release, no you can't change that through remote
> > provisioning.
> > The only way to do it properly is for you to edit the
> > non_localizable_custom.xml file in res/values/ and change the value of
> > the "use_linphone_tag" boolean to false.
> >
> > However with the future release based on the kotlin rewrite you will
> > be able to do it through the remote provisoning by setting
> > "use_linphone_tag=0" in the [app] section.
> I'm having a hard time following this.
>
> When linphone uses the system contacts database - which is perhaps
> provided by davx5 - are there issues with contact deletion?
>
> Or is it only when contacts are added *via linphone itself* into the
> "linphone contacts" area?  And this area is actually a new system
> contacts db, but created by linphone?
>
> It strikes me that it would be far better to figure out a way to encode
> the fields that linphone needs in the main contacts, and just do that,
> so that they get synced.    Perhaps abuse the 'instant messaging'
> field.   And, it would be nice if all sip clients agreed on how to do
> this.
>
>
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