Custom data from other apps

[vestrel00]

This library should support custom data from;

• Google Contacts app custom data #165
• WhatsApp
• and what else?

Created, Read, Update, Delete (CRUD) APIs for custom data integration in general is already supported. We just need to research what custom data that these other apps use. Use the debug module to look into the data table and look for custom data mimetypes. Then, create a new custom data module using the existing customdata-x modules as reference. A separate module should be created for each custom data set. E.G. customdata-googlecontacts, customdata-whatsapp

This issue will provide more documentation on how to get started with this work; #17

An issue should be created for each task! Do not use this issue to implement all of the above! This issue is just here as a registry for all custom data from other apps that will be supported for V1.

Note

This work is different from what the native Contacts app is doing. The native Contacts app (or AOSP Contacts) parses a bunch of xml files coming in from other apps that declare their custom data in xml. This allows external apps to show their custom data within the native Contacts app. The native Contacts app does this from an application perspective, which is not the same as what we want to do from a library perspective. We want to provide other developers a concrete way to Create, Read, Update, Delete (CRUD) custom data from other apps. We may still do what the native Contacts app is doing at some point, if we want to provide other developers a way to dynamically integrate custom data from other apps without having to explicitly know about them.

The work for this is split to #112

[vestrel00]

Blocked by #17 . We need to complete that howto first in order to get started with this work in the right direction!

[vestrel00]

Converting this to a discussion because it is not an actual issue but rather something that is used to track other similar issues =)