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bvandeusen 785ebdba59 android: reminders that actually reach you (M12 step 6)
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Reminders have been settable since the editor landed and have never once gone
off. The board showed them overdue in red, which tells you what you already know
by the time you are looking at the board.

**AlarmManager, not WorkManager.** The background sync is right to be on
WorkManager — nobody minds whether it runs at 3:05 or 3:19. A reminder minds
very much. WorkManager's periodic floor is fifteen minutes and it batches into
maintenance windows, so "remind me at 09:00" would routinely arrive at 09:14,
which is not a reminder, it is a rebuke.

**One alarm, not one per reminder.** Only the earliest future reminder is ever
scheduled; when it fires, everything due is announced and the next is scheduled.
A hundred reminders cost one alarm, and there is no incremental bookkeeping to
drift — `Reminders.refresh` recomputes the whole picture from the store, and is
called from everywhere anything could have changed: an edit, a foreground, a
background sync, boot, and an app update.

Boot and MY_PACKAGE_REPLACED both matter and both are easy to forget. Pending
alarms survive neither, and this app updates by APK from its own server, so
without that receiver a phone would silently stop reminding anyone of anything
after a restart — the worst kind of failure, because nothing appears wrong.

**Neither permission is treated as a prerequisite.**

SCHEDULE_EXACT_ALARM, not USE_EXACT_ALARM: the latter is granted at install with
no prompt and is reserved for apps whose whole purpose is an alarm clock or a
calendar, which this is not. Refusing the former costs precision, not the
feature — it falls back to an inexact alarm, because a reminder a few minutes
late beats no reminder.

POST_NOTIFICATIONS is asked for on the first launch where a reminder actually
exists, never at launch on an empty board. Android gives an app essentially one
chance at that dialog, and spending it before the person has any idea what this
app would send them is spending it on nothing. For anyone who refuses, or who
turns notifications off later in system settings, the Reminders view carries a
standing notice with a button to the right screen — a feature that silently does
nothing is worse than one that is plainly absent.

**A first run adopts overdue reminders silently.** The storm case is linking a
server and pulling months of history; a hundred notifications the moment someone
signs in is a good way to have the feature turned off before it is ever useful.
After that, a missed reminder is announced up to a day late — the web uses
fifteen minutes because an open tab has been polling every forty-five seconds,
but a phone can be switched off all night.

Done and Snooze act from the shade without opening the app. The dedupe key is
note id plus remind_at, the same one the web store uses, so snoozing produces a
new occurrence rather than one already dealt with.

Tapping a notification opens that note. The extra is CONSUMED when read: the
Activity keeps the intent it was launched with, so without that, rotating the
phone would replay it and reopen a note the person had already closed.

`Reminders` split into scheduling policy and `ReminderNotification` rendering
after detekt counted fourteen functions in one object — it was right, they answer
different questions and change for different reasons. `ForegroundTransitions`
moves to the ui package; the reminder notice needs it to re-read a permission the
person may have just changed in a system screen this app cannot observe.

Known gap, pre-existing and shared with every surface: `complete_reminder` in the
core clears a reminder without advancing recurrence — its own comment says so.
So tapping Done on a daily reminder ends it rather than moving it to tomorrow.
Not changed here because it is core behaviour the desktop and web also have, but
notifications make it much easier to hit, and it should be next.
2026-08-19 20:06:05 -04:00
bvandeusen 39170b715c android: leaving the composer keeps the note, and the board loses its dead space
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Two things the operator hit on a real device.

**Capture threw work away.** Every exit from the compose sheet except Save
discarded it — tapping the board behind, swiping down, back, backgrounding the
app, and rotating the phone. That is the wrong default anywhere and the worst
possible one here: a sheet that loses a typed thought because you touched
outside it teaches people not to trust the app with a thought, and capture is
the one place this product cannot afford that.

Now every way out saves, which is the shape the editor already settled on. The
difference is that capture also has to be abandonable — tapping + and changing
your mind is normal — so Discard exists and is the only path that loses
anything. It is called Discard rather than Cancel because "cancel" means "undo
what I am doing", which is precisely what leaving no longer does; the word would
have described the one button it is not attached to. An empty draft needs
neither and is simply dropped: a blank note nobody asked for is worse than none.

Backgrounding persists but does NOT close an empty sheet. Someone who tapped +
and got distracted should find the composer where they left it.

Rotation was losing it twice over: the draft was `remember`, and so was the flag
saying the sheet is open. Both are `rememberSaveable` now, along with the sync
screen's — the editor never had the bug because the note it sits on lives in a
view model, and these were the only screen state that did not.

`FlushOnStop` moves out of NoteEditorScreen into its own file; the editor and
the capture sheet want the identical thing for the identical reason, and it was
about to be copied.

**The board had a centimetre of nothing above the search field.** `SearchBar`
applied `statusBarsPadding()` inside a `Scaffold` whose content padding already
carries the system-bar insets — `ScaffoldDefaults.contentWindowInsets` is
`systemBarsForVisualComponents`, checked in the material3 sources rather than
assumed. So the status bar height was reserved twice on the first screen anyone
sees. Insets get consumed once, by whichever component owns the edge.
2026-08-19 19:39:40 -04:00
bvandeusen 5680f046e3 android: name all four permissions WorkManager adds, not one
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The note added with the previous commit said RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED arrives in
the merged manifest via WorkManager. True, and incomplete — it brings four:
RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED, ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE, WAKE_LOCK and FOREGROUND_SERVICE.

A comment whose whole job is "here is why the permission list has entries this
file does not declare" fails at that job if it accounts for one of them. Each
now says what it is for, checked against the built APK's merged manifest rather
than the library's — which is the version a person actually sees.
2026-08-19 19:11:19 -04:00
bvandeusen 452c66c8ef android: sync without being asked (M12 step 6)
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Until now every sync was a button press. Pull-to-refresh made asking cheaper; it
did not stop the app needing to be asked, which on a phone means a note written
on the bus reaches the desktop whenever you next happen to open the app.

Three moments, and they are deliberately not the same job:

  * **Coming to the front**, if the last sync is over five minutes old or there
    is unsent work. Not on every foreground: stepping out to copy a link and
    stepping back is not a request for fresh notes, and syncing on every app
    switch spends someone's mobile data telling them what they are looking at.
  * **Going away with unsent work** — handed to WorkManager rather than run
    inline, because the process is about to stop being a priority and a sync
    started there would be killed halfway. This is the one that matters most: it
    is what gets a note off a phone that then goes into a pocket for the night.
  * **Every fifteen minutes**, network-constrained. Fifteen is not a preference,
    it is WorkManager's floor for periodic work; asking for less gets fifteen.

**An automatic sync must not raise an error banner.** Someone who pulled the
board down is owed an answer; someone who merely opened the app did not ask a
question, and answering it with a red banner about an unreachable server makes
their own notes look broken when nothing of theirs is. So `syncNow` and
`syncQuietly` differ in exactly one thing — whether failure is announced. The
quiet channel for a persistent problem is the drawer badge, from `has_pending`,
which does not care how the attempt was made.

**There is a switch, defaulting to on.** Linking a server IS the consent; a
person who paired a device and then had to find a second toggle before anything
moved would reasonably call that broken. It lives in SharedPreferences rather
than the store: everything else in sync state describes the PAIRING and must
survive a reinstall, while this describes how one handset behaves, and someone
turning it off on their phone is not asking their laptop to stop. The copy says
what "automatically" means in minutes and says that off is not off — a switch
next to a Disconnect button invites exactly that misreading.

The schedule is DECLARED as a function of (linked, switch) in a LaunchedEffect
rather than toggled from the places that change them. There are four routes to
"should not be syncing on its own" and a call at each is four chances to leave a
phone quietly syncing after it was told to stop.

`ON_START`/`ON_STOP`, not resume/pause — the same choice the editor's save-on-
leave makes, because pause fires for anything covering the window and a sync per
notification-shade pull is not automatic sync, it is a stutter.

RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED now appears in the merged manifest. WorkManager
contributes it so the schedule survives a restart; commented in AndroidManifest
because it shows in the app's permission list and nothing else in that file
would explain it.

Two things read from artifacts rather than recalled, both of which memory would
have got wrong: `work-runtime-ktx` is an empty 6 KB stub as of 2.11 with
`CoroutineWorker` and `PeriodicWorkRequestBuilder` moved into `work-runtime`, so
the dependency is on the latter alone; and `Switch` is not experimental in
material3 1.4.0, so no `@OptIn` — an unnecessary one is itself a warning.

Also adds `android/tools/check-strings.py`, after this change added three
strings: `R` is generated, so `R.string.typo` type-checks whether or not the
string exists. It catches a missing name, `stringResource` on a plural or the
reverse, and a format taking more arguments than the call passes. Verified
against a tree with one of each fault — its first version counted Kotlin's
trailing commas as arguments and called three correct sites broken, which is the
failure that teaches you to ignore a tool.

Two comments in this change were wrong when written and are corrected here
rather than left: the flag check in SyncWorker does NOT avoid opening the store,
because Application.onCreate has already run by the time any Worker starts.
2026-08-19 19:04:45 -04:00
bvandeusen 64542ed6cb android: pull the board down to sync (M12 step 6)
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Every sync so far has been a button press on a screen you have to navigate to.
On a phone the gesture for "check if there's anything new" is a pull, and not
having it is the kind of absence people read as the app not syncing at all.

**The gesture is INERT when this device has no server.** `Modifier.pullToRefresh`
takes an `enabled`, which is why the modifier and the indicator are wired by hand
instead of using `PullToRefreshBox` — that wrapper is less code and offers no way
to turn the gesture off. An unlinked device has nowhere to pull from, and a
gesture that always comes back empty is how people learn a control is broken.
Same reasoning as the drawer badge staying silent when unlinked: local-only is
this app's resting state, not a fault.

**A failed refresh reaches the board.** Otherwise the spinner retracts and
nothing happens, which is indistinguishable from "you were already up to date" —
the one outcome it must not be confused with. It renders as a second banner
rather than replacing the store-error one: those are different facts about
different halves of the app, and hiding either behind the other reports the
wrong problem. Dismissing is honest — the note is still pending, `hasPending`
still says so, and the next cycle reports the same fault if it persists.

**The empty board is now a `LazyColumn` holding one centred item.** Pull-to-
refresh works through nested scroll, and a layout that never scrolls never
dispatches any, so on the old plain `Column` the gesture would have been dead on
exactly the screen where it matters most: linked, board empty, notes still on the
server. Looks identical.

The five sync facts the board needs arrive as one `BoardSync` rather than five
parameters, for the reason `EditorAction` exists: `summary` and `error` are both
`String?` and both about sync, so positionally they could be swapped with nothing
to catch it.

Still no automatic sync — no background cycle, no sync-on-resume. This is a
faster way to ask, not a decision to stop asking. TalkBack users cannot perform
a pull; the drawer's Sync → Sync now remains the accessible path, unchanged.

Verified against the real artifact rather than from memory, since `material3`
resolves through the BOM: 1.4.0's sources confirm `pullToRefresh` has `enabled`,
and that none of `pullToRefresh`, `rememberPullToRefreshState`, `Indicator` or
`PullToRefreshBox` is `@ExperimentalMaterial3Api` there — only two deprecated
members are. So no `@OptIn`, which is what keeps the build at zero warnings.
2026-08-19 16:36:56 -04:00
bvandeusen 65d8f5f9c6 android: the import ktlint and detekt cannot see
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`750d11d` failed CI at `compileDebugKotlin` with `Unresolved reference 'Build'`.
`defaultDeviceName()` reads `android.os.Build`, and the import was lost when
`SyncPairing.kt` was split out of `SyncScreen.kt`. One line to fix.

The interesting part is that ktlint and detekt had both passed it, locally and
in CI. Neither resolves symbols — they parse — so a file that cannot compile is
indistinguishable to them from one that can. A clean analyzer run is not
evidence the code builds, and on this repo `compileDebugKotlin` is the only
gate that type-checks at all, since there is no Android SDK on the workstation.

So: `android/tools/check-symbols.py`, covering that one blind spot. It flags any
capitalised identifier that is neither imported, declared in the same package, a
type parameter, nor implicitly available. Not a type checker and not pretending
to be — a pre-push filter for the single mistake that survives every other local
gate, erring toward false positives.

Verified against a known-bad tree rather than trusted on a green: deleting the
`Build` import from a copy makes it fail with the same two references the Kotlin
compiler reported. That step is not ceremony. An earlier attempt at this check
stripped line comments with `re.S`, where `//.*` eats each file from its first
comment to EOF — it examined almost nothing and reported everything clean.

ci-requirements.md now documents all three Kotlin checks, and its claim that no
workflow consumes the Android image yet is gone; the lane has been running since
step 5.
2026-08-19 15:51:12 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5 750d11d32e android: connect a server from the phone (M12 step 6)
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The plumbing has been bound since step 4 — probe, link by password or token,
unlink, sync — with nothing on top of it. Until this commit the phone was a
good standalone notes app that could not be the SAME notes as the desktop,
which is the point of the project.

Structurally a port of the desktop's SyncView.vue: same probe-then-link order,
same copy wherever the copy was already right. The two surfaces pair with the
same servers, and a difference in wording here would read as a difference in
behaviour.

BEING UNLINKED IS NOT A PROBLEM, and the screen is written around that. It
leads with "Working offline on this device" and says what connecting would
ADD. A local-first app that frames its resting state as unfinished setup is
lying about what it is. The drawer badge follows the same rule: it says
nothing at all when unlinked, rather than "Off".

Probe before credentials. A typo that reaches a stranger's server should cost
a round trip, not a password — so the address is checked first, what answered
is shown (name, version, compatibility), and only then does a sign-in form
appear. An incompatible server never gets one; the core would refuse the link
anyway, and collecting a password to throw away is worse than not asking.

CLEARTEXT IS NOW PERMITTED, deliberately and not silently. Android blocks
plain http from API 28, and the core explicitly supports a self-hosted server
on a LAN — `http://192.168.1.10:8000` is a case it has a test for. The
platform default would make this app unusable for exactly the people it is
built for, with a transport error they could do nothing about. A
network-security-config would be tighter in principle but matches domains and
IP literals, not CIDR ranges, so it cannot express "my own network". The other
half of the trade is a warning that appears the moment a probed address starts
with http:// and BEFORE any credential field: anyone on the same network can
read your password and your notes.

Credentials never enter the view model. The address, email and device name are
`rememberSaveable` so a rotation doesn't cost a retype; the password and the
token are plain `remember` on purpose — rememberSaveable persists into the
instance-state bundle, and a secret has no business being written there to
save four seconds of typing. They reach the core as a `Credentials` sealed
type and die with the composable.

That sealed type also fixed a bug detekt surfaced by complaining about a
six-parameter function: `link_with_token` takes NO device name (the token was
already minted against a named device in the web app), so the flat argument
list meant the form collected one in token mode and silently dropped it. The
field now exists only on the password path.

Threading, which differs by call and is easy to get wrong in one direction:
probe / linkWithPassword / linkWithToken / unlink / syncNow are Rust async
through uniffi, so Kotlin sees suspend functions already driven by tokio and
awaits them directly — wrapping them in Dispatchers.IO would park a thread to
wait on something that never blocks one. syncStatus and hasPending are
ordinary blocking FFI into SQLite and do need it.

A sync that changed anything tells the board to reload, because a pull can
have rewritten every note it is holding. Wired explicitly at the one place
that owns both view models rather than through a shared event bus. A no-op
sync deliberately does not, so the board never flashes its loading state for
nothing.

Sync results are kept RAW in state and turned into sentences in the UI, where
stringResource is in scope — the same split Time.kt draws for timestamps. The
summary counts what MOVED; batches, pages, noop and cursor are all real
numbers and none of them answer "are my notes in step". Rejections are
surfaced rather than swallowed: only a person can resolve them. So is a revoke
that didn't land — someone disconnecting to retire a phone has to be told a
live credential is still out there, and has to still find it when they come
back to check, so it is a persistent notice and not a toast.

Also here: `Panel`/`Notice` extracted as shared tinted chrome, drawn from the
same note palette the cards use rather than Material's errorContainer, so a
warning is the same yellow a note can be. `PlainTextField` gained a visual
transformation for the password field. `formatReminder` became `formatInstant`
now that "last synced" reads it too.

Verified locally per ci-requirements.md: ktlint and detekt clean in
ci-rust-android:1.97, uniffi bindings generated from a host build and read to
confirm ULong on the summary counters, `Compatibility.Ok`/`RevokeOutcome.
Unsupported` being objects, and all five sync calls being suspend. Every
R.string/R.plurals reference cross-checked for existence, kind and format
arity. A symbol-resolution pass over the whole package caught a composable a
bad edit had deleted — ktlint and detekt both parse without resolving, so
neither could see it.

Not done: no automatic sync. The desktop is manual-only too, so this is parity
rather than a gap, but pull-to-refresh on the board is the obvious phone-native
follow-up.

Worth an operator decision, not changed here: allowBackup is still true, so
Android's cloud backup now includes a device token as well as the notes. Good
for restoring to a new phone, and a wider blast radius than before this commit.

Scribe #2777

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2026-08-19 15:41:02 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5 cf0ce382a0 android: the note editor (M12 step 6)
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Tapping a card now opens something. Until this commit the phone could create,
find and navigate; it could not change anything.

A FULL SCREEN, not a sheet. Capture is a sheet because the board behind it is
reassurance that the thought landed; editing is a sustained task with the
keyboard up, and a sheet would spend the whole time fighting the IME for the
bottom half of the display. Full screen also puts the actions in a bottom bar,
which is where a thumb already is. The note's colour paints the whole screen,
so opening one reads as the same object growing to fill the display.

Text saves ONCE, on close — plus on ON_STOP, so app-switching mid-paragraph
doesn't lose it. Not debounced autosave: the core snapshots a revision on every
title/body change, so saving per typing pause would fill version history with
near-identical entries. A baseline check means opening a note and backing out
writes nothing at all, rather than bumping updated_at and marking it dirty for
sync. Same shape the web editor settled on, for the same reason.

The editor speaks in ACTIONS, not callbacks. The first version passed a bundle
of twenty lambdas and the doc comment on it was already worrying about two of
the same-shaped ones getting swapped, with nothing to catch it. `EditorAction`
plus one `(EditorAction) -> Unit` costs a `when` at the far end and buys
exhaustiveness: adding a variant breaks the dispatcher until it is handled.

Checklist rows are live here — real checkboxes, editable text, remove, and an
add row that keeps focus so a list types straight through. That is the answer
to the open question about list entry: the capture sheet stays one-item-per-
line because at capture time the list is already in your head and a tap per row
is the slow part; the editor is where a list is REVISED, and revising is
item-at-a-time. Row text commits on focus loss, not per keystroke — each commit
is a store write that reloads the note.

Colour, labels and reminders are bottom sheets. Reminders lead with presets
(later today / tomorrow / next week) and keep the exact picker one tap down:
the web's raw datetime-local is right for a desktop and three taps too many for
the common case on a phone. Recurrence only appears once there is a reminder to
recur from. The date picker reports UTC midnight of the calendar day tapped and
is read back in UTC — reading it in the device zone is the classic off-by-a-day
in that control.

Pin, labels, archive and delete live in the overflow as WORDS.
`material-icons-core` has no pin, archive or label glyph, and the alternatives
were pulling in the ~1,000-vector extended set for four icons or pressing
unrelated ones into service — a star meaning "pin" is a star meaning "favourite"
to everyone who has used another app. The colour button is a dot in the note's
current colour, which says what the colour IS as well as what the button does.

A trashed note renders read-only. Editing one would silently resurrect work
that was meant to be thrown away; Restore and Delete forever are the only
things to do with it. Deleting for good is the one irreversible action in the
app and gets the one confirmation in it.

`#tag` labels are never sent to `set_labels` and get no remove button. They are
owned by the body text and the core re-derives them on the next edit, so a
cross that undid itself a second later would look broken.

FFI additions: delete_note_forever, add_item, set_item_text, set_item_checked,
delete_item, complete_reminder, snooze_reminder, set_note_labels, create_label.
`set_item_text`/`set_item_checked` are split rather than exposing the core's
{text?, checked?} patch, for the same reason NoteEdit is a list — an
optional-field struct cannot say "leave this alone" in Kotlin without colliding
with "set it to null". Four new tests (11 total in the crate).

Found while extracting shared helpers: the card painted EVERY reminder blue,
so "you missed this" and "coming up Friday" looked identical. Now red when
overdue and neutral otherwise, matching the web card's exact pairs. And the
error banner was renderable only by the board — the one screen that needed it,
where the writes happen, was the one screen without it.

DRY, since three copies each had appeared: PlainTextField (the undecorated
field used by capture, editor, checklist rows and the search bar), Time.kt (the
RFC3339 seam), NoteKind.kt, ErrorBanner.

detekt: LongMethod and LongParameterList now ignore @Composable. Compose breaks
those rules' PREMISE, not just their thresholds — a composable's parameters are
its UI contract and its length tracks how many elements are on screen, not
branching. Two suppressions carry their reasoning at the site instead:
onEditorAction is sixty lines because EditorAction has twenty variants, and
splitting it would need an `else` that throws away the exhaustiveness; and
BoardViewModel stays one class because every editor mutation has to reload the
board behind it.

Verified locally before pushing, per ci-requirements.md: fmt/clippy/test in
ci-tauri:1.97 (89 + 11 + 11 tests, four crates present), ktlint and detekt in
ci-rust-android:1.97, uniffi bindings generated from a host build and read to
confirm every method and field name the Kotlin calls.

Still unbuilt: attachments, link previews, version history, and label
management (rename/recolour/delete). Setting up a server from the phone is next.

Scribe #2777

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-19 11:18:24 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5 64e016f32d android: phone-shaped chrome and the real note card (M12 step 6)
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Two things at once, because they answer one question: what should this look like,
and what should it look like ON A PHONE.

IDENTITY IS SHARED, INTERACTION IS NOT. The card now renders exactly what the web
and desktop render — note colour, checklists, label chips, reminders — using the
same palette values, so a note looks like your note on every surface. The chrome
does not: the desktop's title bar and sidebar are wrong for a thumb.

  * NoteTint.kt carries the Tailwind colours from frontend/src/notes/colors.ts
    VALUE FOR VALUE, generated from tailwindcss 3.4 rather than eyeballed. Dark
    tints keep the web's alpha (dark:bg-*-950/40) instead of a precomputed blend,
    because Compose composites translucency over the background exactly as CSS
    does.
  * Dynamic colour is GONE. It was the more Android-native choice and it made the
    app look like a different product — on a stock emulator with no wallpaper it
    renders as undifferentiated grey, which is what the operator saw. Three peer
    surfaces share one identity; the brand #F5C518 is the same value the web
    manifest and the launcher icon already use.
  * The board is a two-column staggered grid, the Compose equivalent of the CSS
    multi-column NoteGrid.vue uses.

PHONE ERGONOMICS, chosen with the operator:
  * Search IS the top bar. After writing a note, finding one is the most common
    thing you do, and burying it behind an icon costs a tap every time. Debounced
    180ms and cancelled per keystroke — without that a fast typist queues one
    full-text query per character and results land out of order.
  * A + button is the only way in. One obvious target beat a capture bar and a
    button competing for the same job.
  * Navigation moved into a drawer behind the search bar's menu icon, which is
    where archive/trash/labels/reminders now live. They had nowhere to go once
    search took the top bar, and would otherwise have been unreachable.
  * The compose sheet asks note-or-list up front. On a phone those are different
    typing tasks and switching halfway is worse than choosing at the start. A
    list takes one item per line — fast to type, versus a tap per row.

Three new bindings the UI needed: search_notes, reminder_notes, list_labels.
Search goes through the CORE so "what matches" cannot drift between surfaces;
filtering the loaded list in Kotlin would have been less code and a different
product. reminder_notes is its own call because the core models it that way —
"has a reminder" cuts across archived and active alike.

Empty states are per-destination. "Nothing here yet" is encouraging on an empty
board, wrong in Trash, and misleading after a search where the notes exist but
did not match.

Verified locally before pushing: bindings generated from a host .so and read back,
ktlint and detekt clean from the image's pinned CLIs, cargo fmt/clippy/test green
(107 tests). Two detekt findings were fixed by extraction rather than by relaxing
the rules — this is the first Compose code in the repo and the thresholds should
have to earn their exceptions.

Still unbuilt: tapping a card does nothing. The editor is next.

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2026-08-19 09:23:00 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5 c8af808432 android: package only the ABIs we actually build for
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The first working APK carried libjnidispatch.so for armeabi, mips and mips64 as
well as our four — JNA's .aar still ships those, and AGP packages whatever it
finds. Android dropped mips in NDK r17 and armeabi in r17 too; nothing that can
install this app can load them, so they are pure payload.

abiFilters pins the set to the four the Rust is actually cross-compiled for, so
the APK's ABI list matches the build's intent rather than the union of every
dependency's history.

Found by unpacking the artifact rather than trusting the green: the run said
"Upload debug APK ✓", which is true and says nothing about what is inside it.

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2026-08-18 16:24:37 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5 5eab2dd0b3 android: the error enum has to be flat, or the bindings don't compile
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Fifth run cleared ktlint and detekt and failed compiling the GENERATED Kotlin:

  'message' hides member of supertype 'Throwable' and needs an 'override'
  modifier

My design, surfacing one layer down. CoreError's variants carried a `message`
field, and uniffi turns an error enum into exception classes extending
Throwable — which already has `message`.

`#[uniffi(flat_error)]` is the right fix rather than renaming the field.
Renaming would dodge the collision and leave `e.message` null on the Kotlin side,
so every call site would have to know which variant it caught just to read the
text. Flat passes the Display string to the Throwable constructor, where Kotlin
expects it, and costs nothing that matters: each variant is still its own
subclass, so `catch (e: CoreException.NotLinked)` still works and a `when` is
still exhaustive. Only the fields stop crossing, and for every variant that has
one the field IS the Display string.

Confirmed by generating the bindings and reading them:

  sealed class CoreException(message: String): kotlin.Exception(message) {
      class NotLinked(message: String) : CoreException(message)
      class Store(message: String)     : CoreException(message)
      class Network(message: String)   : CoreException(message)
  }

That check is worth keeping. thoughtsync-ffi already builds a HOST .so as part
of the workspace, and `--library` mode reads metadata straight out of it — so
the exact Kotlin the Android lane will compile can be generated and inspected
here, with no Android toolchain involved. It also let me verify the app's call
sites against the real generated API rather than against my assumptions about
uniffi's naming: ThoughtSync(dataDir), createNote(draft), listNotes(query),
Note.displayTitle, and NoteDraft/NoteQuery's parameter names all match.

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2026-08-18 16:15:46 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5 dee71dffb3 android: teach the linters this codebase's conventions, and fix two real nits
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Fourth run got the whole native pipeline through — cargo-ndk built all four
ABIs and uniffi generated the Kotlin — and then failed on style.

Two genuine mistakes, fixed:
  * BoardViewModel's constructor parameter needed its own line.
  * PaddingValues was written fully-qualified inline, which ktlint read as a
    method chain. Importing it is what the rule was actually asking for, and
    what the line should have said anyway.

The other ten were the tools not knowing this codebase:
  * @Composable functions are PascalCase by universal Compose convention.
    Exempted in BOTH .editorconfig (ktlint) and config/detekt.yml — they have to
    agree or one of them is always wrong.
  * MagicNumber on `private val Brand = Color(0xFFF5C518)`. The rule asks for a
    well-named constant; that line IS one. ignorePropertyDeclaration.
  * TooGenericExceptionCaught in the ViewModel and Application. Deliberate and
    already commented: a note that fails to save must become a visible error
    banner rather than a crash, and the store failing to open must still let the
    app start so it can explain itself. Scoped to those two paths, not disabled
    globally — everywhere else the rule is right.

Verified locally this time, both linters clean, using the SAME pinned CLIs from
ci-android:36 that the lane runs. ktlint and detekt are a formatter and a static
analyzer — the same category as cargo fmt and clippy, which is the precedent
ci-requirements already sets. No build was run locally.

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2026-08-18 16:04:40 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5 5d0de7a682 android: the binding generator gets its own crate, free of the app's deps
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Third Android run got further than either before it — all four ABIs
cross-compiled, vendored OpenSSL and all — then the generator died:

  error: failed to run custom build command for `openssl-sys v0.9.117`

That is the HOST build. The generator was a [[bin]] inside thoughtsync-ffi, so
building it compiled that crate and therefore the core, reqwest, native-tls and
openssl-sys for linux. The vendored-OpenSSL block is scoped to
`cfg(target_os = "android")`, so the host build went looking for a system
OpenSSL that ci-rust-android has no reason to carry.

Adding libssl-dev to the image would have fixed it and been wrong: a code
generator has no business linking the app's TLS stack to emit Kotlin. Splitting
it into thoughtsync-uniffi-bindgen, whose only dependency is uniffi, removes the
entire chain. Verified from the dependency graph rather than from a build that
happened to succeed — `cargo tree -p thoughtsync-uniffi-bindgen` contains none of
openssl-sys, native-tls, reqwest, thoughtsync-core or rusqlite.

It stays a WORKSPACE MEMBER on purpose. Sharing one lockfile is what keeps uniffi
here and uniffi linked into the .so at one version; they are two halves of one
ABI, and a separate lockfile is precisely how they would drift apart. The cost is
that the desktop lane now compiles ~15 generator crates it never runs — cheap
next to Tauri, and better than leaving the crate unlinted.

Drops the `bindgen` feature and required-features bin from thoughtsync-ffi, which
existed only to keep those crates off the desktop lane and now have nothing to
gate.

Local fmt + clippy + test all green before pushing (107 tests).

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2026-08-18 15:54:10 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5 3d3df1beb0 android: register generated sources through the Variant API
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Second Android run failed with AGP 9 refusing the previous fix by name:

  You cannot add Provider instances to the Android SourceSet API. [...] Instead
  you should use the Sources interface in the Variant API, in particular
  SourceDirectories.addGeneratedDirectory

AGP cannot tell from a Provider whether the directory holds generated
(read-only) or hand-written (read-write) files, which is a distinction the IDE
needs. `addGeneratedSourceDirectory` is the supported route and — unlike the
plain-path form the error offers as an escape hatch — it carries the task
dependency, so Kotlin still cannot compile before the bindings are generated and
the APK cannot package a stale .so.

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2026-08-18 15:43:57 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5 f179928c57 android: run ktlint and detekt from the image, not as Gradle plugins
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First Android run failed at plugin resolution:

  Plugin [id: 'io.gitlab.arturbosch.detekt', version: '2.0.0-alpha.3'] was not
  found in any of the following sources

That version is published to neither Maven Central nor the plugin portal — the
latest detekt anywhere is 1.23.8. It was copied from Minstrel's catalog, where it
presumably resolves from a cached artifact; copying a pin without checking it
exists is what made it my problem.

Rather than chase a working plugin version, the analyzers now run from the CLIs
ci-rust-android already ships. That was the point of putting them in the image in
step 3, and going through Gradle plugins would have meant a SECOND pinned version
of each tool, resolved at build time, kept in lockstep with the image's by hand.
One less resolution step, and step 3's decision finally earns its keep.

Also replaces the source-ordering hack while here. Kotlin has to compile after
the bindings are generated, and the usual `tasks.withType<KotlinCompile>` cannot
be written in this build at all — AGP 9's built-in Kotlin means that class is not
on the buildscript classpath. Passing the TASK PROVIDERS to srcDir instead lets
Gradle read their @OutputDirectory and infer the ordering itself, which is the
idiomatic form and removes the dependsOn entirely.

Good news from the failed run: the Gradle wrapper check passed, so Gradle 9.1.0
on the image's JDK 25 works — the toolchain decision from step 3 holds.

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2026-08-18 15:35:17 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5 20907abf6e android: a Kotlin/Compose app that drives the Rust core (M12 step 5)
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The skeleton, and the lane that builds it. Gradle invokes cargo-ndk to
cross-compile thoughtsync-ffi for four ABIs, generates the Kotlin bindings from
the resulting .so, and packages both.

BUILT ON MINSTREL'S TOOLCHAIN, not a fresh guess. Gradle 9.1.0 / AGP 9.0.1 /
Kotlin 2.3.21 on JDK 25 is the combination already proven in this family on
ci-android, including the JDK 22+ native-access opt-in the launcher JVM needs
and the artifact-upload action pinned by SHA (issues 2255 / 2270). It also
independently confirms the JDK 25 call made on ci-rust-android in step 3.

Gradle wiring worth noting:

  * ExecOperations, not project.exec — the latter was REMOVED in Gradle 9, and
    touching `project` at execution time is also what breaks the configuration
    cache this build enables.
  * The cargo task's inputs are the Rust SOURCES, not the workspace directory.
    Declaring the directory would make Gradle hash target/, which is gigabytes.
  * Bindings are generated with `--library` against the built .so, so they can
    never describe a different version of the Rust than the one being packaged.
  * cargo runs --locked, so an Android build cannot silently re-resolve the
    lockfile the desktop lanes are gated on.

JNA is a real dependency, with the @aar classifier. The plain jar builds fine
and fails at runtime with UnsatisfiedLinkError, which is the worst way to learn
it. R8 keep rules for JNA and the bindings are in for the same reason — that
failure would otherwise appear only in a minified release.

The UI is a working board, not a debug screen: capture field, note list, empty
state, error banner, and an honest failure screen for a store that won't open.
Rules 23/24 — a surface ships at quality from the first commit. Capture uses the
IME action key because the north star is a thought captured in under a second,
and leaves the title empty so the core derives it from the first body line.

Every core call runs on Dispatchers.IO: they are blocking FFI into synchronous
SQLite, and running them on the main thread is exactly the jank going native was
meant to avoid.

The launcher icon reuses frontend/public/icon-maskable-512.png as an adaptive
foreground on the brand #F5C518 — the same asset and colour the web app already
ships, so the three surfaces wear one face.

No signing config. A release keystore that has passed through an agent session
or shell history is compromised by construction (task 2136); it has to be
generated by the operator and reach CI only as a secret. CI builds debug.

CI can only prove this BUILDS — a Linux runner cannot execute an APK, so feel
and on-device correctness remain an operator pass on an emulator.

Scribe #2739.

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2026-08-18 15:24:30 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5 f90b9203a7 android: bind the core to Kotlin through uniffi (M12 step 4)
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`android/ffi` is to Android what `desktop/src-tauri/src/commands/` is to the
desktop: a shim over the shared core holding no logic of its own. Third workspace
member, so the desktop lane's `cargo clippy --all-targets` compiles and lints it
— which until the Android lane lands (step 5) is the only thing that does.

Three decisions worth stating.

MIRRORED RECORDS, NOT DERIVES ON THE CORE. The core's model structs are serde
shapes contracted with the shared Vue frontend, and one of them holds a
serde_json::Value, which has no uniffi representation. Hanging uniffi derives on
them would couple two unrelated consumers to one definition. The cost of
mirroring is drift — an Android client quietly missing a field the desktop
gained — so every conversion destructures the core struct exhaustively. Add a
field to core::local::models::Note and this crate stops compiling until Android
is told what to do with it.

NoteEdit IS A LIST, NOT A STRUCT OF NULLABLE FIELDS. The store's patch format
distinguishes three states: leave alone, set, and clear to null. Kotlin cannot
express the third with a nullable field — `title = null` in a data class is
indistinguishable from `title` unset — so the editor could never clear a title.
Explicit Clear* variants say it out loud and give Kotlin a sealed class.

ASYNC IS TOKIO-BACKED, AND CANCELLATION ALREADY WORKED. Exported async methods
become Kotlin suspend functions. When a coroutine is cancelled uniffi drops the
future, and no async path in the core holds the store lock across an await —
a std MutexGuard isn't Send, so the compiler has been enforcing that all along.
A cancelled sync leaves the store consistent and simply hasn't stamped
last_sync_at, which is only written after both halves of a cycle succeed.

Also here:

  * core gains Db::conn(). Every consumer was writing
    `db.0.lock().map_err(|e| e.to_string())?` by hand, and worse, any helper
    returning the guard had to NAME rusqlite::Connection — which would have made
    rusqlite a dependency of a layer whose whole point is not knowing what the
    store is made of. Same trap as the update.rs test module in step 1.
  * The uniffi `cli` feature is gated behind our own `bindgen` feature. It drags
    in clap, askama and goblin for a three-line binary, and the desktop lane
    should not compile a code generator it never runs.
  * The bindgen binary lives in this workspace on purpose: generated bindings and
    the linked uniffi runtime are two halves of one ABI, and compiling the
    generator against the same dependency keeps them in step by construction.
    That is why ci-rust-android ships no uniffi-bindgen.

Tests cover the round trip the Android skeleton needs (open a store in a
directory that does not exist yet, write a note, read it back), that a body-only
note still has a display_title, that set and clear are genuinely different
edits, and that an unlinked app reports NotLinked rather than an error.

Known and deliberate: the workspace sets panic = "abort", so a panic crossing the
FFI aborts instead of arriving in Kotlin as an exception. Same behaviour the
desktop already has; noted in the crate header rather than silently changed.

Scribe #2733.

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2026-08-18 11:09:52 -04:00