[android-developers] Re: Storing app-specific synced data with a contact

2009-05-03 Thread Mike Hearn
The app copies photos from Facebook to the users contact list. By default, it won't replace existing photos, as you may have photos from other sources and it'd be poor to overwrite them (there is a checkbox you can tick to replace the existing photos). But now there is a problem - when you run th

[android-developers] Re: Storing app-specific synced data with a contact

2009-05-03 Thread jarkman
As a amtter of interest, why do you want your data to survive uninstall & reinstall ? In the usual run of things, it doesn't seem to cause trouble with the users. And the ones that really don't want your app any more will be glad if it cleans itself up completely on uninstall. Richard On May 2,

[android-developers] Re: Storing app-specific synced data with a contact

2009-05-02 Thread Mike Hearn
I wasn't able to find a good, free Java steganography library that can survive recompression. I think I'll just store the data on the SD card. It's not as nice as having it associated with the contact in the contacts db, as the user can delete the database, swap SD cards or buy a new phone and the

[android-developers] Re: Storing app-specific synced data with a contact

2009-05-02 Thread Mike Hearn
No :( I'm needing to store data about individual contacts. Does anybody else have ideas? I really want to avoid steganography that can survive JPEG recompression, it would be an astonishing amount of suck. On May 2, 10:12 am, jarkman wrote: > The sync process seems to re-encode the jpeg. You'll

[android-developers] Re: Storing app-specific synced data with a contact

2009-05-02 Thread jarkman
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 wrote: > I would l