GSoC Project Ideas

While students are welcome to apply with their own well-formed project ideas, here are some for inspiration:

My awesome example feature request

• Description: detailed explanation of the idea.
• link to a bugreport or feature request if one exists.
• Requires: knowledge of Java and the Android SDK
• Difficulty: easy/medium/hard
• Mentor(s) interested in this project: include a name and email address here if applicable. You can propose an idea without necessarily being willing to mentor it.

Overhaul database

• Description: Overhaul database to enable the following features:
  1. Messages:
     • Store complete MIME structure
     • Not exactly new but very important: support partially downloaded messages (and message parts)
     • Support threading
     • Support easy displaying of message/rfc822 messages
     • Support easy displaying of messages contained in a Multipart/digest part
     • Support S/MIME
     • Support PGP/MIME
  2. Folders:
     • Support folder hierarchy
     • Support local folders
  3. All data:
     • Expose tables (global settings, accounts, folders, messages) via a ContentProvider and only use that ContentProvider to access the database
     • Expose the ContentProvider to third-party applications, but with strict access control (permissions, e.g. read messages, write messages)
     • Support import/export of settings
• Bonus points: Show "database upgrade" screen when upgrading the database (see issue 1601).
• Issue tracker:
  • Issue 258
  • Issue 631
  • Issue 2017
  • Issue 17
• Requires: knowledge of Java and the Android SDK, database design
• Difficulty: hard
• Mentor(s) interested in this project:
  • cketti <cketti (at) gmail (dot) com> (might apply as student, though)