wordpress-mobile / wordpress-mobile/WordPress-Android
Login: Auto-detect the email client and open it automatically for magic links
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[Status] Stale
[Type] Enhancement
Login
- Dominant language
- Kotlin
- Stars
- 3.2k
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Description
From @elibud:
When using magic links for login, we should try to auto-detect which email client the user has configured on their device and open it automatically.
Related iOS issue: https://github.com/wordpress-mobile/WordPress-iOS/issues/11086
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by tracing the Android magic-link login flow and compare the related iOS issue linked in the report. Determine how the configured email client could be detected and launched, then verify that magic-link login opens the intended client without breaking devices that have none or several available.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- kotlin
- Domain
- authentication, mobile
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100