Enable auto sync programmatically

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I want to enable auto sync in account settings in my app programmatically. I've set up the SyncAdapter, declared it in manifest, I added account and after this action I tried:

ContentResolver.setSyncAutomatically(account, authority, true);
ContentResolver.setMasterSyncAutomatically(true);

but it's not working. There is the same questions on SE:

but they are too old, and in them I found, that I need to use ContentResolver.setMasterSyncAutomatically(true), but it's not working on my Android 7, Android 9.

@Crazo7924 thanks, I do it, all this tips already written in my codebase, but auto sync switcher in the app account settings does not enabled. — Alexey Nikitin, Jan 17 '20 at 12:13

Alexey Nikitin · Accepted Answer · 2020-01-20T09:15:46.950

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The problem was in the authority string argument in ContentResolver.setSyncAutomatically(account, authority, true);, it needs to be "com.android.contacts" for contacts synchronization

edited Jan 20 '20 at 09:15

answered Jan 20 '20 at 08:59

Alexey Nikitin

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