nextcloud/talk-android

improve Contacts activity (group creation, federation invitations, ...)

mahibi opened this issue · 1 comments

mahibi commented

The Contacts activity needs to be improved because:

  • conversation creation workflow is not intuitive.
  • current Implementation is quite buggy
  • adding #3713 only makes sense when the activity is improved beforehand

As the contacts activity can be worked on without much side effects to other parts of the app, it's a good candidate for first migration steps to coroutines and jetpack compose. Lets use:

  • MVVM
  • coroutines
  • compose (--> also removes "flexible Adapter")
  • use code from/ extract Code to nc common lib? (esp. regarding coroutines/compose)

Be aware that adding participants to a Conversation is currently also handled with the Contacts activity.

jancborchardt commented

It’s best to align with how other native apps on the platform do this. For example, to be on par with Signal, we would have to do 2 changes:

  • If you tap on any person in the list, it will immediately start a 1on1 (or switch to the existing one) instead of going to multiselect.
  • We need to add a very first entry "New group" which then shows the same list but you can multiselect.

This both makes it much quicker to start a 1on1, and much clearer when you are creating a group.