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

[Greg Troxel]

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?

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.

> 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?

> 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.