Multi-artist surfaces (home Rediscover, Library Artists tab, Liked Artists carousel) were all rendering the music-notes placeholder instead of real artist covers. Root cause: CachedArtist.toRef() returned an ArtistRef with empty coverUrl — the cache doesn't store the representative album id the server derives at query time, and the adapter never reconstructed it. The artist detail screen worked coincidentally because it derives its header cover from `artist.albums[0].id` directly rather than the ArtistRef's coverUrl field. Fix: * CachedArtistAdapter.toRef() now accepts an optional coverAlbumId and reconstructs `/api/albums/<id>/cover` when given. Matches the pattern AlbumRef uses (deterministic URL from entity id). * artistTileProvider, libraryArtistsProvider, and artistProvider (single-artist) each LEFT JOIN cached_albums ordered by sort_title. First row per artist carries the alphabetically-first album id; toRef projects that into the cover URL. * Multi-artist queries dedup in toResult since the join multiplies rows by album count. Artists with no albums yet in drift come through with empty coverUrl — UI falls back to the music-notes placeholder, same behavior as before for that legitimately-coverless state.
Minstrel mobile client
Flutter (iOS + Android) sibling of the SvelteKit web SPA. v1 first slice ships: scaffold, auth, library browse (home / artist / album), likes, player with background audio + lock-screen controls.
Setup
cd flutter_client
flutter pub get
./tool/sync_shared.sh # copy tokens / error-copy / placeholders from ../web
dart run tool/gen_tokens.dart # regen lib/theme/tokens.dart from shared/fabledsword.tokens.json
flutter run
sync_shared.sh is idempotent. CI runs it on every build; rerun locally
whenever web/src/lib/styles/tokens.json,
web/src/lib/styles/error-copy.json, or
web/static/placeholders/album-fallback.svg changes.
Project layout
See docs/superpowers/specs/2026-05-02-flutter-mobile-foundation-design.md
section 3. Briefly:
lib/api/— dio client, ApiError, error-copy loader, per-surface endpoints.lib/auth/— server URL screen, login screen, AuthController + secure storage.lib/library/— home, artist detail, album detail, providers, widgets.lib/likes/— LikeButton + optimistic toggle controller.lib/player/— audio handler, player provider, mini PlayerBar, NowPlaying.lib/theme/— FabledSword token Dart class (generated), ThemeExtension, ThemeData.lib/shared/— routing (go_router shell), version gate, connection error banner.
shared/fabledsword.tokens.json and assets/error-copy.json are
synced from web/. Don't edit them directly — edit web/src/lib/styles/
and re-run ./tool/sync_shared.sh.
Architecture
- State: Riverpod 2 (
AsyncValue,AsyncNotifier, family providers). - HTTP: dio 5 with a Bearer-auth interceptor; 401 clears the session and the router redirects to login.
- Audio: just_audio wrapped by audio_service for background playback + lock-screen / notification controls.
- Auth: Bearer tokens in flutter_secure_storage. Server already
supports both cookie (web SPA) and Bearer (
internal/auth/session.go). - Routing: go_router with a ShellRoute so the PlayerBar persists
across navigation. Cold launch flow: no server-url →
/server-url, url set / no token →/login, token present →/home.
CI
.forgejo/workflows/flutter.yml runs on push to dev/main, tag pushes,
PR to main, and manual dispatch — path-filtered to flutter_client/**
plus the shared web inputs. Steps: sync, analyze, test, build APK.
Debug APKs upload as artifacts; release APKs attach to the Forgejo
release on tag.
Versioning
pubspec.yaml version mirrors the server tag (e.g. server v0.1.0
→ Flutter 0.1.0+1). The server's /healthz returns
min_client_version; old clients show an Update Required modal and
refuse to operate. Bump internal/server/version.go MinClientVersion
when a server-side change requires a paired client update.
Distribution
- Android: APK on the Forgejo release page. No Play Store for v1.
- iOS: TestFlight on tag (manual upload v1, automate later).
Out-of-scope for slice 1
Search, discover, requests, settings beyond server URL, admin, listening history, playlists, offline cache (#357). Those land in subsequent slices with their own brainstorm/spec/plan cycles. Per the operator's M7 ordering decision (2026-05-02), slice 2+ pauses to ship the missing web features first (#352 playlists, #362 theme toggle, #363 queue UI, #364 listening history, etc.) before mirroring on Flutter.