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

[Dave Osbourne]

    OK, I think *I* might have been unclear...  but would like to thank
    everyone who is trying to help me - I can't tell you how much I
    appreciate your time.
    
    This is my experience...  I start with a "vanilla" Linphone (v 4.3)
    code, there is no linphone app installed on my device (I've
    uninstalled it).
    
    1) confirm I see my Contacts in the Contacts App - there were
    imported via <some other route>
    2) compile and install linphone
    3) allow 2 permissions requested 
    4) fetch a config (from my provisioning server)
    5) dial a SIP contact [that Linphone has found]
    6) check contacts - they're gone
    7) uninstall linphone
    8) check contacts - they're still gone
    
    I re-import the contacts and I make this change
    to the Linphone source
    
        public void initializeContactManager() {
            if (!mInitialized) {
                if
      (mContext.getResources().getBoolean(R.bool.use_linphone_tag)) {
                    if (hasReadContactsAccess()
                            && hasWriteContactsAccess()
                            &&
      hasWriteSyncPermission()) {
                        if (LinphoneContext.isReady()) {
                            // initializeSyncAccount();
                              mInitialized = true;
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    
    Then
    1) confirm I see my Contacts in the Conracts App - there were
    imported via <some other route>
    2) compile and install linphone (with the
      modification above)
    3) allow 2 permissions requested 
    4) fetch a config (from my provisioning server)
    5) dial the same SIP contact [that Linphone has found]
    6) check contacts - they're still there
    7) uninstall linphone
    8) check contacts - they're stillthere
    
    
    I don't know why this is, but given that I'm wholly different to the
    majority of users (no gapps and no play store) this is almost
    certainly something I've done (or not done).
    
    I can reliably repeat the above.  I'm more and more certain the
    unwanted interaction is only with linphone, but I can't tell what
    it's doing...
    
    Dave
    
    
    
    
    
    On 2020-06-08 13:59, Sylvain Berfini wrote:
> 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.
> >         
> >       
>       
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