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What's the alternative of "ContactsContract.Contacts.LAST_TIME_CONTACTED"?

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What should I use instead of ContactsContract.Contacts.LAST_TIME_CONTACTED? According to documentation, LAST_TIME_CONTACTED variable was deprecated. Even it was written in ContactsContract.class

/** @deprecated */
@Deprecated
String LAST_TIME_CONTACTED = "last_time_contacted";

Since it was deprecated then there must be another alternative. But why there's no alternative? Or why the documentation didn't link any alternative?

This constant was deprecated in API level 29.
Contacts affinity information is no longer supported as of Android version Build.VERSION_CODES.Q. This column always contains 0.

In Android Q or higher version, there's no alternative variable either?

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Deprecated doesn't necessarily mean replaced (1 comment)
I may be wrong, but the way I interpret the text you quoted, it is deprecated because the correspondi... (1 comment)
Deprecated doesn't necessarily mean replaced
Canina‭ wrote over 2 years ago · edited over 2 years ago

You say that "since it was deprecated then there must be another alternative", but something can be deprecated without being replaced by anything else. While it's generally better if a thingamajic that is deprecated can be replaced by a different thromblemeister to accomplish the same goal, sometimes the very concept relating to the thing that is deprecated is phased out, and the specific deprecation is only a consequence of that. In that case, there very well may not be any alternative means to accomplish the same task, because the task itself no longer makes sense.