REQ: Contact Groups about android HOT 13 CLOSED

@victor-rds, as for EteSync stripping categories: it's annoying and shouldn't happen, but an issue with etesync-dav, or maybe more correctly, the dav client (in this case tbird). EteSync uses the vcard 4 way of doing groups, which is a separate vcard for groups rather than the categories field. You should tell tbird to do the same, and then EteSync would work correctly. Please let me know if you manage to fix it so I can update the readme accordingly.

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It is implemented, and it works, I just used it today.
What app do you use for your address book? Does it work for you for other account providers? (e.g. Google)

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It's the contacts app that comes with OxygenOS 5.0.1 Android 8.0.0. The Add Group dialog lets me pick an account to make it under and I can do Google or Phone, but not EteSync.

Same behavior in GO Contacts EX.

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Interesting. For me it works with the default lineage os contacts app on Android 7.1.
I'll try to figure this out. Thanks for the info.

Anything else you think may be useful for me to know?

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I just tested it with Simple Contacts and that seems able to edit the groups, but I can't really tell where it's saving these.

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It should show in the journal after a sync.

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Ah, yeah, after adding some contacts to a group via Simple Contacts, that group shows up in the EteSync app proper. Still not in the stock Contacts app, though.

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OK, so it still needs fixing, but at least we know it works for you with a different app.

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The same problem happens with default Samsung Contacts app on Android 8.0, also I don't know if this is related but when I tried do import a vcf file in this app I noticed that all vcard had the CATEGORIES field stripped, example:

BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:4.0
UID:fd176145-954e-46a3-a5d2-49fadf8a4ecb
CATEGORIES:Family,Starred
FN:Given Other Family
N:Family;Given;Other;;
NICKNAME:nick
BDAY:01/01/1970
ORG:Organization
REV:20180528T084910Z
TEL;PREF;TYPE=CELL:555-5555
TEL;T;TYPE=WORK:555-4444
EMAIL:[email protected]
EMAIL:[email protected]
END:VCARD

The CATEGORIES:Family,Starred disappeared, after that I tried to re-add the categories through Thunderbird Cardbook, with no success.

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I would also like to have support for groups compatible with those provided by a Google account.

While I do not know how it works internally, it seems that each account that provides contacts data defines what kind of fields it supports because I get different fields to fill in when creating a new contact for my Google account than for my EteSync account (and others, e.g. an Exchange account), no matter what app I use. The Google account allows to add multiple values to a field sometimes called "groups" (e.g. Samsung Contacts) and sometimes "labels" (e.g. Google Contacts).

Edit: When storing contacts on the phone instead of the Google account I get the same groups/labels. This field apparently is not identical to or imported from the vCard field "categories", which can be set on EteSync contacts with an external program and is shown as part of the raw data in the EteSync Android app but does not show up in any Android contacts app.

Edit 2: After some more digging, I have found an app that can add EteSync contacts to groups (Simple Contacts Pro) but apparently this information is not stored in the vcard managed by EteSync. The latter was updated but while the raw data does show some changes, e.g. from vcard 3.0 to 4.0 and an added empty note field, there is no new data identifying the groups that contact was added to. I guess that some extra code is needed to explicitly sync some vcard field (ideally Categories) with the Android database tables containing group memberships. It is still curious why most contacts apps I have tested do not allow adding EteSync contacts to groups.

Tested on: Samsung Galaxy S7 (SM-G930F), Android 8.0

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I think I fixed it. Could you please try using this version: https://stosb.com/~tom/app-release.apk

Sorry for the time it took.

EDIT: It's signed with the release keys, so it should just install over the google play version without any issues. This is so you can make sure it actually comes from me.

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I just released the new version. It should be available in Google Play within a few hours and f-droid within a few days. Please let me know if this fixes it for you.

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The issues described here should now be fixed (as confirmed by a few users). There are some related issues that are tracked in #54 so I'm closing this one.

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