How Do I Get My Custom Account Type To Show Up In The Android Contacts App?

I've created a custom account type and I can successfully create contacts of that type in the android ContactsContract ContentProvider. But I'm having a lot of trouble figuring out

Solution 1:

I finally figured out what the issue was.

In my sync-adapter element the android:contentAuthority attribute was set to a custom content authority for my own contacts ContentProvider, which is technically what I use to query and write contact data. But it turns out to get your contacts to show up in the default contacts app this attribute must be set to "com.android.contacts".