Thread: [Announce] qgvdial: Google Voice client for Qt platforms
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uvatbc is offline uvatbc
2011-03-19 , 04:43
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#335
Originally Posted by epage View Post
1. At one point I grabbed the source of the GV chrome extension (can't remember how) and it made a request for a json resource with all sorts of information. In this same request I grab the _rnr, callback numbers, and contacts. More is available but I just ignore it for now. This seems like it should be amply efficient though maybe my contact list isn't big enough.
I started off like that as well - but what forced me off that path was the fact that I have over 1000 contacts, 600 of which have phone numbers. Parsing this took so much time and CPU at every refresh, that I had to find a better way.

Also: As a result of moving to the gcontacts api and using mosquitto, I can get near instantaneous updates - just like Android.
This is particularly impressive because whenever I update contacts from gmail, those changes are propagated to qgvdial within 20 seconds or less. I don't sacrifice battery life for this either.

When I eventually get time, I plan to use these features to create the contacts sync utility.
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qgvdial: Google Voice client. All downloads
qgvtp: Phone integration for the n900 that dials out and sends texts using qgvdial.
mosquitto: message broker that implements the MQ Telemetry Transport protocol version 3.
qgvnotify: Google voice and contacts notifier for diablo and maemo.

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