Android SDK 2.2.1 IRainbowContact.photo is always null

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Hiro TAKAHASHI

• November 12, 2021 19:01

Does anyone have an answer for the issue below that is I'm now facing?

I'm making an Android app and using the SDK version 2.2.1.
I tried to display a photo of each contact but it always null.

The app read the contact list, an array of IRainbowContact then processes each contact, it can read most of the class members such as lastName, mainEmailAddess but photo.

With a simple debug code below I was noticed the filed always null.

*contact is IRainbowContact

 

contact.photo?.let { Log.d (TAG, "photo is NOT null")}

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  Jordan HIERTZ

  • November 15, 2021 09:12

  Hi,

  Since version 2.1.0, we no longer automatically download the contact photo for two reasons:

  • to minimise the impact of a cold start
  • to let the developer choose his caching strategy

  Currently, there are two ways to retrieve the contact photo:

  • You can use the method 

  RainbowSdk.instance().contacts().getAvatarUrl(IRainbowContact, int)

  with this url you can download and save the file or use any library like Glide, Picasso etc to display the photo.

  • You can try and use our rainbow avatar library to display a photo of an IRainbowContact in a simple way.

  // Add dependency
  
  implementation "com.ale.rainbowx:rainbowavatar:0.2.7"
  
  // Use the AvatarCardView
  
  <com.ale.rainbowx.rainbowavatar.AvatarCardView
      android:id="@+id/avatar"
      android:layout_width="wrap_content"
      android:layout_height="wrap_content"
      app:avatarDimension="small"/>
  
  // Display the contact avatar in the AvatarCardView
  
  findViewById(R.id.avatar).displayContact(IRainbowContact)

  The library will try to display an avatar if it exists on the server side. Or display the initials of that contact if there is none.

  If you only need to display the photos, I encourage you to use the rainbow avatar library as this is its purpose.

  Jordan.

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  Hiro TAKAHASHI

  • November 12, 2021 22:08

  The issue did NOT occur when I downgraded the SDK version to 1.72.0 for test purpose.
  I did not try upgrade the SDK as some of fields/methods I'm using have been deleted/replaced.

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  Hiro TAKAHASHI

  • November 15, 2021 15:16

  Hello Jordan, thank you for your prompt comment. I will try using the avatar library.

  Thanks,

   

  Hiro

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