Add support for contact favorites

[PhilippKosarev]

Describe your suggested feature

Hello, first of all, thank you for the app. I love the overall design and customisability.

Although currently I am unable to use it instead of phone's default app for a couple of reasons.

Currently there is no dialer. I don't always want to add a number to my contacts just to call it. Having each company you would like to call in your contacts is unnecessary.

No favourites. If you have a lot of contacts, but mostly call only the selected few it would great if you could add them to favourites and have them at the top every time you open the app instead of searching for them every time.

And one last thing, which is mostly just a nitpick. I feel that the FAB icon should be chaned to a + as it adds a contact rather than editing an existing one as the pencil suggests.

So I propose to:

• Add a dialer tab
• Add favourites
• Change the FAB icon to a plus

Other details

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[Bnyro]

Add a dialer tab

This has already be done recently and will be part of the next release, which requires testing first however.

Change the FAB icon to a plus

I disagree simply due to the fact that the pencil icon looks much better than the plus icon, and I've seen lots of other apps do the same thing.

Add favourites

I see the point of it, for now you can organize your contacts in a group that you name Favorites. That allows you to filter for these contacts only.

[PhilippKosarev]

Hey, thank you for responding so quickly. Glad to hear that the dialer is coming soon :)

Although I know about the groups feature, the whole point of adding to favourites is for it to be accessible as soon as you open the app. Filtering on the other hand, is an improvement over searching each contact manually, but still requires to do it every time you open the app. And it requires even more actions if after doing that you need to call someone outside that group.

I understand that keeping the app simple will help to avoid needless clutter, but I believe that adding favourites would be more efficient as it would decrease the amount of taps required to get there. If any other users however finds the feature unnecessary they can simply ignore it while it will be very useful to others.