1173566 - Handle Firefox Account email changes on Android

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1368147

(Android Background Services Graveyard :: Firefox Accounts, defect)

Description

[Zachary Carter [:zaach]]

To help prevent users from being locked out of their account we want to allow users to change their email address[1], which means code on the server and clients alike will need to be revisited. I'm setting up this bug to track changes needed for Android to support this feature.

[1] https://github.com/mozilla/fxa-auth-server/issues/957

Comment 1

[Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him] (PTO Feb 24-March 3)]

I don't know much about doing this on Android.  We create a native Android account object, which has a unique, constant primary key which is almost always the email address.  We probably will need to tear down and re-create the account object.  It's not something we would want to do frequently.  Technically, there's no reason that we could not associate a single email (even a defunct email) with many emails.

This will need some careful consideration.

Comment 2

[Ryan Kelly [:rfkelly]]

I'm duping this to Bug 1368147 which, while more recent, also has more discussion in it.