thunderbird / thunderbird/thunderbird-android

Stop reading/writing Contacts Provider's usage data

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type: enhancement
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Kotlin
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Description

See https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/providers/contacts-provider#ObsoleteData

We should probably start keeping track of which recipients have been contacted how often ourselves. Then use that data to order the recipient auto-complete suggestions.

Related: #1006

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First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Read the linked Contacts Provider documentation and related issue #1006 first. Trace the existing Contacts Provider usage and recipient auto-complete suggestions, then define the project-owned usage data and ordering behavior; done means usage is no longer read from or written to Contacts Provider and suggestions use the replacement data.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
android, kotlin
Domain
mobile
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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