Android onChange() method only returns false

Question

I have a ContentObserver onChange() declared as a subclasse in my activity. But it always returns false. Can anyone tell me why?

(Update) This code must call the fillList if the CallLog content provider changes. I mean, if I make a new call, so the data of the call will be inserted in the content provider, so it must return to the observer that something has changed there, so it will call the fillList().But it always return false, even If I make a new call on the emulator.

Here is the code.

    public class RatedCalls extends ListActivity {

private static final String LOG_TAG = "RatedCallsObserver";
private Handler handler = new Handler();
private RatedCallsContentObserver callsObserver = null;
private SQLiteDatabase db;
private CallDataHelper dh = null;
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
OpenHelper openHelper = new OpenHelper(RatedCalls.this);

class RatedCallsContentObserver extends ContentObserver {
    public RatedCallsContentObserver(Handler h) {
        super(h);
    }

    public void onChange(boolean selfChange) {
        Log.d(LOG_TAG, "RatedCallsContentObserver.onChange( " + selfChange
                + ")");

    }
}

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    registerContentObservers();
    fillList();
}

@Override
public void onStart() {

    super.onStart();
    registerContentObservers();

}

@Override
public void onStop() {

    super.onStop();
    unregisterContentObservers();

}

private void fillList() {

    Cursor cursor = getContentResolver().query(
            android.provider.CallLog.Calls.CONTENT_URI, null, null, null,
            android.provider.CallLog.Calls.DATE + " DESC ");

    cursor.setNotificationUri(getBaseContext().getContentResolver(),
            android.provider.CallLog.Calls.CONTENT_URI);

    dh = new CallDataHelper(this);
    db = openHelper.getWritableDatabase();

    startManagingCursor(cursor);
    int numberColumnId = cursor
            .getColumnIndex(android.provider.CallLog.Calls.NUMBER);
    int durationId = cursor
            .getColumnIndex(android.provider.CallLog.Calls.DURATION);
    int contactNameId = cursor
            .getColumnIndex(android.provider.CallLog.Calls.CACHED_NAME);
    int dateId = cursor.getColumnIndex(android.provider.CallLog.Calls.DATE);
    int numTypeId = cursor
            .getColumnIndex(android.provider.CallLog.Calls.CACHED_NUMBER_TYPE);
    // int contactIdColumnId =
    // cursor.getColumnIndex(android.provider.ContactsContract.RawContacts.CONTACT_ID);

    Date dt = new Date();
    int hours = dt.getHours();
    int minutes = dt.getMinutes();
    int seconds = dt.getSeconds();
    String currTime = hours + ":" + minutes + ":" + seconds;

    ArrayList<String> callList = new ArrayList<String>();
    if (cursor.moveToFirst()) {

        do {
            String contactNumber = cursor.getString(numberColumnId);
            String contactName = cursor.getString(contactNameId);
            String duration = cursor.getString(durationId);
            String callDate = DateFormat.getDateInstance().format(dateId);
            String numType = cursor.getString(numTypeId);

            ContentValues values = new ContentValues();

            values.put("contact_id", 1);
            values.put("contact_name", contactName);
            values.put("number_type", numType);
            values.put("contact_number", contactNumber);
            values.put("duration", duration);
            values.put("date", callDate);
            values.put("current_time", currTime);
            values.put("cont", 1);

            getBaseContext().getContentResolver().notifyChange(
                    android.provider.CallLog.Calls.CONTENT_URI, null);

            callList.add("Contact Number: " + contactNumber
                    + "\nContact Name: " + contactName + "\nDuration: "
                    + duration + "\nDate: " + callDate);
            this.db.insert(CallDataHelper.TABLE_NAME, null, values);
            Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), "Inserted!", Toast.LENGTH_LONG);

        } while (cursor.moveToNext());
        setListAdapter(new ArrayAdapter<String>(this, R.layout.listitem,
                callList));
        ListView lv = getListView();
        lv.setTextFilterEnabled(true);

        lv.setOnItemClickListener(new android.widget.AdapterView.OnItemClickListener() {

            @Override
            public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view,
                    int position, long id) {

                Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),
                        ((TextView) view).getText(), Toast.LENGTH_SHORT)
                        .show();

            }
        });
    }
}

private void registerContentObservers() {
    ContentResolver cr = getContentResolver();
    callsObserver = new RatedCallsContentObserver(handler);
    cr.registerContentObserver(android.provider.CallLog.Calls.CONTENT_URI,
            true, callsObserver);
}

private void unregisterContentObservers() {

    ContentResolver cr = getContentResolver();
    if (callsObserver != null) { // just paranoia
        cr.unregisterContentObserver(callsObserver);
        callsObserver = null;
    }

}
}

Answer 1

The function doesn't return false, because it doesn't return anything. Its return type is void. It receives false as a parameter.

Why?

Well, I typed 'android onchange' into Google and selected the first result, and found the following:

This method is called when a change occurs to the cursor that is being observed.
Parameters
selfChange    true if the update was caused by a call to commit on the cursor
              that is being observed. 

So all that happened is that the cursor was changed, and not by calling its .commit() method. You will only log a 'true' input to this function if .commit() is called.