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I'm a junior Android developer. I have task to export contacts from my Android phone book to Gmail account directory Contacts->My Contacts, but I can't find any useful information on the Internet about Google Gmail API, so the question is how can I gain access to Gmail My Contacts folder to insert my contacts from the phone or when I can find information about Gmail API.

Thank you and sorry for my English.

Avershin Dmitry
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    http://code.google.com/apis/contacts/ might be what you are looking for, unless you mean the proprietary Google Contacts sync adapter that is present in most/all Android phones. – Jens Oct 25 '11 at 08:22
  • as I understand,I need to divide my task in two parts: 1.authorization to my google account 2.translating my contacts into xml format and then send my xml request to the gmail server.It's correct? – Avershin Dmitry Oct 25 '11 at 09:31
  • Ok,could you recommend some information about authorization to web service(gmail example) for beginners,I look for that,but all information that I have found is SampleSyncAdapter app in android developer site,but this code without any explanations seems to be hard for understanding – Avershin Dmitry Oct 26 '11 at 04:43
  • Well, the linked API is a GData API - but that's covered well here on StackOverflow - you can check out the top answers here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/524257/best-option-for-using-the-gdata-apis-on-android – Jens Oct 26 '11 at 12:18
  • As I understand I can use google-api-java-client to authorizing to gmail and gdata-java-client for adding contacts?I'm totally confused about my task – Avershin Dmitry Oct 27 '11 at 14:32
  • Isn't this part of the Android phones as they are now, GMail is tied into contacts already. I know on my phone it already is... – JPM Oct 27 '11 at 15:09
  • In my task I have a few contacts that I need to export to gmail account,it looks like a list of available contacts,which I can checkbox and then press settings button and choose "export to gmail contacts",so after that I enter email and pass and my contacts exported to that account – Avershin Dmitry Oct 27 '11 at 15:47

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