Remove a skype account via AccountManager.removeAccount() in Android

Question

I'm trying to play a bit with Accounts via AccountManager on my Android Phone and would like to write an app to remove some accounts. My code works on facebook accounts but fails on skype account .

Any clues on how to remove these kind of accounts (except of course opening the xml and remove the desired line)

result=accountManager.removeAccount(Account, null, null); 

remove_result=result.getResult(); //-> true for a facebook account , false for a skype account .

Answer 1

You might be forbidden from removing some accounts if they are needed for something else (like Android Market, etc.). IIRC, the code that does this check is system-level, so you can't change it. Don't know why it forbids you from deleting Skype accounts though. Check logcat output, might be some hints there.