Broadcast on contact add/change?

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Felix picture Felix · Apr 20, 2011 · Viewed 7.8k times · Source

Is there any standard broadcast intent that I can register a BroadcastReceiver for that gets triggered whenever a contact is added or changed? I've been looking through the docs for a while now but haven't found anything. Maybe it's hidden somewhere deep and one of you guys knows where.

Answer

Felix picture Felix · Apr 21, 2011

Here I go answering my own question (if anyone has a better answer, don't be shy).

There's no broadcast when a contact is added/changed. However, when you look up your contacts in the RawContacts table you have a DIRTY column which is 1 if the contact was changed since the last sync, which is pretty much what I was looking for.

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