Should I use android AccountManager?

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Published on 2010-04-27T10:20:01Z Indexed on 2010/04/27 10:23 UTC
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I've seen AccountManager in the android SDK, and can see it is used for storing account information, but I can't find any general discussion of what it is intended for.

Anyone know of any helpful discussions of what the intention behind AccountManager is and what it buys you

Any opinions of what type of Accounts this is suitable for? Would this be where you'd put your user's account information for a general web service?

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Phil

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