How to handle RESTful update of remote server with SyncAdapter

Question

I\'ve watched the Google I/O REST talk and read the slides: http://www.google.com/events/io/2010/sessions/developing-RESTful-android-apps.html

I\'m still a bit unclear o

Answer 1

What about the Observer design pattern? Can your activity be an observer of the SyncAdapter or database? That way when an update fails, the adapter will notify its observers and can then act on the data that changed. There are a bunch of Observable classes in the SDK, see which one works best in your situation. http://developer.android.com/search.html#q=Observer&t=0