[TriLUG] Sync Contact between Nexus One and Mac OS?

[Aaron Schrab]

I don't have an Android based phone, but I do have contact syncing 
working decently between my OS X box and GMail.  I'm assuming that your 
Nexus One would be able to sync contacts from the Google cloud.

Note, I haven't yet gotten around to upgrading from Leopard to Snow 
Leopard.

I think that all that's needed to do the initial sync is to open Address 
Book's preferences window, go to the General tab, check the Synchronize 
with Google checkbox, and click the Google... button to enter your 
account information.

The trickier part is getting it to resync later.  Normally it will only 
do that syncing when iTunes is syncing contacts with an iPhone.  To sync 
updates after I turned that off in favor of having my iPhone sync 
contacts over the air with Google, I needed to use the Syncrospector 
application that is part of the developer tools.  When the dev tools are 
installed, it should be at Developer/Applications/Utilities/Syncrospector

To force it to sync just open Syncrospector, click on the Google 
Contacts entry in the list, and click on the Sync button at the top of 
the window.