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    copied!<p>I'm trying to get a custom ContentProvider to show up under Data &amp; synchronization, and I'm running into some problems. Namely, it's not showing up.</p> <p>The specifics:</p> <p>My AndroidManifest.xml has the provider and service:</p> <pre><code>&lt;provider android:name="BooksProvider" android:label="ClientName Books" android:authorities="com.clientname.reader.books" android:enabled="true" android:exported="true" android:syncable="true"&gt; &lt;grant-uri-permission android:pathPattern=".*" /&gt; &lt;/provider&gt; &lt;service android:name=".sync.SyncService" android:exported="true" android:process=":sync"&gt; &lt;intent-filter&gt; &lt;action android:name="android.content.SyncAdapter" /&gt; &lt;/intent-filter&gt; &lt;meta-data android:name="android.content.SyncAdapater" android:resource="@xml/syncadapter" /&gt; &lt;/service&gt; </code></pre> <p>And res/xml/syncadapter.xml has the following:</p> <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt; &lt;sync-adapter xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:contentAuthority="com.clientname.reader.books" android:accountType="com.google" android:supportsUploading="true" android:userVisible="true" /&gt; </code></pre> <p>Just to be safe, I've even called the following on onCreate:</p> <pre><code>AccountManager accountManager = AccountManager.get(getApplicationContext()); Account[] accounts = accountManager.getAccountsByType("com.google"); for(Account account : accounts){ Log.d(TAG, "Account: " + account.name); ContentResolver.setIsSyncable(account, Reader.AUTHORITY, 1); } </code></pre> <p>When I load up the Activity, I get adb logging from ContentResolver.setIsSyncable saying that account is already set to be syncable, so the method isn't doing anything.</p> <p>And yet, the provider <strong>refuses</strong> to show up in Settings > Accounts &amp; Sync > Data &amp; synchronization. Any ideas on why? Anyone know how it's determined what appears in that section?</p> <p>[edit] Some more information:</p> <p>After spending hours debugging, I'm coming across this error:</p> <pre><code>04-11 10:46:02.370: DEBUG/SyncManager(105): can't find a sync adapter for SyncAdapterType Key {name=com.clientname.reader.books, type=com.google}, removing settings for it </code></pre> <p>It also appears my SyncService class is never actually getting called. Am I supposed to be invoking it myself? None of the samples I've seen or applications in the wild invoke it themselves, but they also all have auth components. Thoughts?</p>
 

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