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bvandeusen 81695fa0c8 android: update the app from the server it syncs with (2727, M12 step 7)
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Closes M12. The phone can now notice that its server has a newer build and
install it, instead of the operator copying an APK to a device by hand.

**A PackageInstaller session, not an install intent.** The obvious route —
ACTION_VIEW on the APK — is exactly what on-device install heuristics are tuned
against, and it is what produced the "bypassing Android security" warning on
Minstrel (Scribe note 2437). It also never tells the OS that this app is the
legitimate updater of its own package, and it returns nothing: a failed install
is indistinguishable from someone dismissing the dialog.

The session says who is doing what, and on Android 12+ declares no user action
required — which, with UPDATE_PACKAGES_WITHOUT_USER_ACTION, removes the
confirmation entirely on the UPDATE path. Only there: Android will not let an app
quietly put a NEW package on a device, which is right. It also only applies when
the new build carries the same signing key as the installed one, which is why
signing had to land first.

Two things from that research deliberately NOT done: `setRequestUpdateOwnership`
was chased and turned out to be a red herring, and REQUEST_INSTALL_PACKAGES is
not the differentiator either — Mihon declares it too. The mechanism was the
whole difference.

**The outcome comes back.** `commit` takes an IntentSender and the result lands
at `UpdateReceiver`, so a failure can be shown rather than guessed at, and
STATUS_PENDING_USER_ACTION is handled — that is the ordinary path below API 31
and still possible above it, since the OS is entitled to ask anyway. Someone
declining is reported as no error at all: calling a deliberate choice a failure
is how an app sounds broken when it is not.

**The network work stays in Rust.** Two FFI additions — `clientUpdate` and
`downloadClientUpdate` — because the device token lives in the core, and pulling
it into Kotlin to make an HTTP call would spread the one secret this app holds
across two languages for nothing. The core also owns the comparison, so the rule
"version CODE decides, never the name" lives in the layer that has to get it
right for every surface.

The download is streamed to disk, not buffered: 55 MiB in memory on a phone is
how an update gets killed halfway through. It lands in `update.apk.part` and is
renamed only once size and sha256 both match, so an interrupted download can
never be mistaken for a finished one. The digest is not a trust anchor — the
signature is, and Android checks it — but it catches a truncated transfer before
the installer is bothered with it. The advertised path is joined to the base URL
this device is LINKED to rather than followed as given, so a server cannot point
the download at a host nobody agreed to.

**Updates are linked-only, and it says so.** An unlinked install has no update
path, so it gets one sentence explaining where updates come from rather than a
Check button that silently finds nothing — the same lesson as the desktop's
unlink copy (issue 2110). And the "install unknown apps" grant is asked for
BEFORE downloading, so nobody spends 55 MiB to be told no.

Every Android API here was read out of `android-36/android.jar` with javap
first, and the two new FFI methods out of freshly generated bindings, rather
than recalled: `suspend fun clientUpdate(installedVersionCode: Long):
ClientUpdate?` and `downloadClientUpdate(destPath: String)`.

Also fixes `check-symbols.py`, which reported four false positives on
`UpdateOutcome.Result` — its object-member index collected functions and
properties but not nested TYPES, and a data class inside an object is an
ordinary member.
2026-08-21 08:44:08 -04:00
bvandeusen f38864088b core: a completed recurring reminder advances instead of ending
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`complete_reminder` cleared `remind_at` and said so in its own comment —
"(Recurrence advancement is a later refinement.)". So Done on a daily reminder
was quietly the last time it ever fired. Reminder notifications made that much
easier to hit, because Done is now a button in the notification shade.

**The server already had this.** `src/thoughtsync/notes/recurrence.py` has done
it correctly all along, which means the web behaved one way and the desktop and
Android the other, on the same note, in the same account. This is a port of that
file rather than a fresh implementation, kept behaviourally identical rather than
merely similar: the same reminder can be completed from a browser or a client,
and a disagreement would move it depending on which one you happened to use.

The seven new tests in `core/src/local/recur.rs` mirror the Python suite case for
case, including the one that matters most in practice — 31 January plus a month
is 28 February, and the step after that is 28 March rather than back to the 31st.
That clamp is sticky, and it is now asserted on both sides so a future "fix" to
either has to change both.

Advancement is measured from the reminder's own time, never from now, which is
what keeps a 09:00 daily reminder at 09:00 when it is dealt with at 09:47. A
phone left in a drawer for a fortnight rolls forward to tomorrow rather than
arriving at fourteen pending occurrences of the same thing.

Also matched from the server, and a latent bug of its own: the non-recurring
branch now clears `recurrence` as well as `remind_at`. Before, completing a note
that carried a rule left the rule behind with no reminder attached — invisible in
every UI, since they only render recurrence when there is a reminder to recur
from, and waiting to surprise whoever next set a time on that note.

Documented rather than hidden, and shared with the server: the arithmetic is in
UTC and a note carries no timezone, so a daily reminder crossing a DST boundary
keeps its UTC time and shifts by an hour locally. Fixing that means a zone per
note, which is a wire-format change.

Verified in the CI image before pushing: fmt, clippy --all-targets -D warnings,
and the full suite — core 89 to 96, ffi 11 to 12. The new FFI test walks the path
the notification's Done button actually takes.
2026-08-19 21:22:22 -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.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-19 09:23:00 -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.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-18 16:15:46 -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.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-18 11:09:52 -04:00