Read news from the app (instead of modules apps)

[mmathieum]

In order to lower the number of ContentProvider queries and battery usage from module apps, apps should expose the news settings to be store and consume inside the main app where news articles will loaded and cached.

This is only one of the initiative on this front, it should be done with all other kind of ContentProvider in order to make the module apps as small & "dumb" as possible.

Tasks:

• expose the news settings from the news provider (and limiting the changes required).
• backward compatible to an extent (could deploy module apps changes 1st and then turn on the main app feature later with Feature Flag)
• News provider compatibility:
  • Twitter/X
  • YouTube
  • RSS
  • Instagram (disabled)
  • sto.ca (disabled) <- to be deleted
  • Winnipeg Transit Service Advisories

Work:

• News provider config commons-android#13
• Read news provider configs from ContentProvider #20