[Android Apps and Games] costasparisis:
Dear [MENTION=7256700]ShadowAngler[/MENTION],

Your app (but mainly the philosophy of "not ditching a nicely functioning app feature, even if used by only few end users, for otherways unclear reasons" behind its creation) is v-v- interesting indeed to me.

I'm currently using a Samsung Galaxy Note3 N9005 hlte running latest Samsung beta MM 6.0.1 ROM for Note 5 & S7 (Korea & China) with the new TW interface and apps (N920SKSU2ZPFB), ported to Note 3 by darkera13 (originally @ samsungviet and now also @ XDA - http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-note-3/development/darklord-s7-edge-port-6-0-1-mm-t3382954 by nice guy, themer & developer [MENTION=6925694]Ufo71[/MENTION]) as my daily driver (supposedly this is the predecessor to the ROM Samsung's long awaited Galaxy Note 7 flagship will come loaded with this August and possibly to all Samsung Touch Wiz future releases from there on).

I'm Keen and eager to test your app

only 3 small problems:

1) I don't use / sync-to Google Contacts

I use Companionlink's Deja Contacts with <my quite large db currently holding circa 7.660 contacts and 18.560 appointments> stored only locally <storage/emulated/0/clusb/companionlink.db> and syncing only locally to android native contacts apk <data/data/com.android.providers.contacts> for native phonecall / SMS functionality. Actually the latest (beta - new UX) Samsung contact & phone app is (for the first time in the history of TouchWiz afaik) brilliant in terms not only of looks (gone are all the ridiculous multi coloured dots and banners etc) but also -and more importantly- of added functionality (ie you can gain full access to and view, edit, etc all of a contact's details while you're on the phone with them directly from within the phone app)

2) I don't regularly log into my google / playstore account (I try to avoid this as much as I can since it sometimes tries to sync to google contacts etc and messes up my data <ie last time it synced by accident I ended up having 7.000 contacts instead of a total of 50-odd -the ones with email addresses- on my Gmail account, having to search through all these in order <and making it practically impossible> to send an email and thus eventually having to google <sweet revenge !> my way to finding a script to mass delete all google contacts without deleting the account and losing my email address> but I also neither fancy Big Brothers potentially spying on and recording each and every one of my moves, thoughts, emotions, activities, f@rts etc nor being (almost) forced to rely on them "keeping MY data "safe" and "secure" <and "accessible" only when, where and if there's internet>THEIR cloud for me" <I have learned how to do this much better myself>)

3) I don't have much experience with logcats

Sooooo ...

when you get your app syncing with other than google accounts let me know (and preferably pm me with a download link for the apk also including some clues on debugging / logcatting) and hopefully I'll be your beta tester for Sammy (and, who knows, maybe I'll make an exception for development's sakes and even sync with google for you !! :p ).

Oh - and one more thing

Please DO make your app (if you haven't already) REALLY (unlike definitely Samsung's and some other 3rd party contact&phone apps but maybe even CM's - can't remember since it's been a while I was there) display contacts in REALLY-FAMILY-NAME-FIRST alphabetical order in the list when the user chooses so in settings. It's a MAJOR pain and distraction having to scroll through ie 185 contacts starting with "John" to find the one with the correct surname, even when the surnames come in alphabetical order (after the "Johns" :z ).

Good luck and all the best to you my friend - I'll be keeping an eye on your thread as promised