TUTORIAL 28
Contacting Our Friends
In this tutorial, we tie Android contacts to Patchy, storing identi.ca screen
names in the contacts engine and highlighting those status updates that
come from our contacts.
Step-By-Step Instructions.........................................................................
First, you need to have completed the previous tutorial. If you are
beginning the tutorials here, or if you wish to not use your existing work,
you can download a ZIP file with all of the tutorial results, and you can copy
the 27-IntentFilters edition of Patchy to use as a starting point.
Also note that this tutorial will work with an Android 2.0 device or
emulator but will not work with an Android 1.6 or older environment.
Furthermore, the Android 2.2 emulator presently seems to have a bug,
whereby if you add a contact, it does not appear on the list of contacts, even
though the contact is actually there.
Step #1: Fake the Contact Data
Android's contact database does not have a built-in spot to record the
Twitter screen name of the contact.