Sync Android phone with a third-party server

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Do you know if the Android SDK provides some classes, interfaces or methods to help developers to create a mechanism in order to synchronize application data between the phone and a third-party server ? Or should we build this mechanism from scratch ?

I've heard about C2DM for Push notification but it is available only from Android 2.2 and my application must support Android 2.1.

Is your question about Syncing data or about Push notification? — Rajath, Apr 07 '11 at 12:35

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 07 '11 at 12:51

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Android does synchronization between data stored locally in a content provider and a remote service by means of a SyncAdapter.

Here you have a full example and some docs.

answered Apr 07 '11 at 12:51

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:55

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It s been a while but I couldnT find a lot of info on Sync management in Android nowadays either. I wanted to add another link. :

http://www.c99.org/2010/01/23/writing-an-android-sync-provider-part-1/ . It s also quite old actually(from January, 2010)
Then there is another SO post : Android Sync Adapter Resources

edited May 23 '17 at 11:55

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answered Mar 06 '12 at 13:08

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Sync Android phone with a third-party server

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