Display picture and basic info when receiving a phone call.

I guess Rapportive inside Google's own Gmail application would never happen. But there are already other services linking their information to contacts in my Contacts, like Facebook and Twitter. It's their own official apps doing this for me, so I guess the things needed to support it are already in place for Google. They call it SNS data I believe.

It looks like it's already mentioned, but repeating it never hurts :).

Support android for all those that were forced to buckle and get a droid

Pls

What would be AMAZING would be some kind of plugin for the Android Gmail client - no idea if it supports plugins, though.

I'm not sure if I should enter as a new idea or if It's kind of the same here:

I've been using the Google Goggles app, and as they can recognize people from the pictures, why shouldn't they be associated to my contact picture from Rapportive?

I mean, if the information from Rapportive (pictures and so on) is going to be synchronized, so I could take a picture, the Rapportive (or the Google Goggles?) could recognize the people, and when I click to share the image via email, the To: fields could be already filled with the address from the people on the picture.

I'm not sure if it is technology viable, since it's probably going to use a lot of mobile processor and internet data as well (not good using 3G network)

Is it clear? I'm not sure if I could express myself well, I hope so :)

Thanks Arik, that's a great comment. And I agree: Raplets on Android would be awesome :)

Hi again Arik — that sounds very cool indeed. Thank you for taking the time to explain, with a screenshot as well :D.

You can integrate with Android by creating your own Sync Provider. What this will allows you is two things:

The first and obvious one is the ability to sync the contacts we have on the phone with augmented data from Rapportive. That's nice, but that can be also achieved by syncing Google's contacts with Rapportive.

The second thing that this will allow you, which is the bigger win imo, is to be integrated in the Quick Contact Widget like this: http://skitch.com/arikfr/danhi/rapportive-illustration (sorry for the ugly illustration). This Quick Contact widget is being used in many apps (Gmail, Twitter, Facebook, etc) and eventually will be used everywhere on Android. This means that from everywhere, where people see contacts in Android, they can click to see the contact's rapportive profile. And the beauty is that it opens your app (actually Activity), so you can add there raplets and other goodies.

If you had an API, I probably would have built it myself ;-)

Syncing with contacts is a great idea, thanks! Hopefully this will be the same as syncing with Google contacts?

It could (if the user allow) sync the information found by Rapportive and the contacts. Maybe add the websites (like facebook profile) into the the respective contact.

Please support Android.

Hey Craig, thanks for the comment. Do you mind describing your ideal vision of what our Android support could do? Thanks!

Please provide support for Android handsets