How to enable sync without syncing every few seconds

Question

I have used Google\'s Android developer documentation (http://developer.android.com/training/sync-adapters) to create a syncing system.

My app now has an entry in An

Answer 1

You should add ContentResolver.setMasterSyncAutomatically(true); to your code. Without this the setSyncAutomatically will be ignored.

Read the documentation [here] (http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/ContentResolver.html#setMasterSyncAutomatically(boolean))