Accessing 'CONTACT_LAST_UPDATED_TIMESTAMP' constant or 'DIRTY' flag

[lati111]

I'm wanting to move local changes to a contact on a user's device to the remote database during syncing. Unfortunately as for what I can see in the documentation there does not seem to be any indicator of whether the user has edited the synced contact.

Android does have built in support for this within their contacts, using the CONTACT_LAST_UPDATED_TIMESTAMP constant, or the DIRTY flag on a rawContact.

If it all possible, I'd like it if one of these two options would be made available to allow me to determine if the item was updated on the remote database, or locally in order to set the sync direction.

Thanks in advance.

[vestrel00]

Hey! It seems like you are implementing a sync adapter.

The CONTACT_LAST_UPDATED_TIMESTAMP is for Contacts, which may consist of several RawContacts from different Accounts. This is probably not what you want.

I believe what you need here is DIRTY

[vestrel00]

@lati111, I created these issues for you;

• Add support for ContactsContract.RawContacts.DIRTY #354
• Add support for ContactsContract.Groups.DIRTY #355

They will be part of the next release v0.3.3, which I'm aiming to release some time this September. I currently have no time to work on this until then.

In the meantime, I think you can still use this library but you'll have to write your own custom function that uses ContactsContract directly to read/write the value of the DIRTY column 🙏

[lati111]

Much appreciated! And that was the way I ended up implementing it anyways for now, even if it's a bit clunky execution wise. I'll just have to refactor once the update comes out. As always thanks for the quick support!