Back at the root was calling SystemNavigator.pop(). That is not "background
the app": on Android it calls finish() on the activity, which tears down the
Flutter engine and drops the radio connection. Backing out and reopening
therefore landed on a disconnected radio needing a fresh connect. Wrong call
for the job, and worse than the behaviour it replaced.
Backgrounding without finishing needs moveTaskToBack, which has no Flutter
equivalent, so it goes over a method channel:
- MainActivity exposes meshcore_open/app_lifecycle with a moveTaskToBack
method, alongside the existing USB channel.
- AppBackgrounder wraps it and is a no-op off Android, where programmatic
backgrounding either does not apply (desktop windows close by their own
chrome) or is forbidden (iOS). On those platforms back at the root stays
unhandled rather than doing something destructive.
- AppShell awaits it instead of calling SystemNavigator.pop().
The activity stays alive, so the connection survives and reopening returns to
where the user was.
flutter analyze clean, dart format clean, 469 tests pass.
Two bugs, reported together from an S25 FE test.
**Back popped to the scanner.** The previous commit made back pop whenever the
route could be popped. The primary views sit on top of the scanner, so from
the channel list back landed on the radio-connect screen. That is a regression
I introduced: the `PopScope(canPop: !isConnected)` I removed existed to
prevent exactly this, and I removed it without establishing why it was there.
Back now distinguishes the two cases. A primary view (one carrying the bottom
bar) hands back to the OS and backgrounds the app. A detail screen (a channel
chat, which has no selectedIndex and is genuinely pushed) pops to its list.
Reaching the scanner is what Disconnect is for, not what Back is for.
**The scanner was a dead end while connected.** It only routed into the app on
a connection transition, behind a one-shot flag that never reset while
connected. So once showing with a live connection it stayed there, and
pressing Connect did nothing, since there was nothing left to connect. It now
routes in whenever it is the visible route and a connection is live, guarded
against double-push by a dedicated flag rather than reusing
_changedNavigation, which separately gates the disconnect-on-dispose cleanup.
Known limitation, pre-existing and unchanged: this auto-entry is bluetooth
only. USB and TCP connect from their own screens, which navigate themselves.
flutter analyze clean, dart format clean, 469 tests pass.
Owner hardware test on an S25 FE and Windows turned up five issues. Three of
them shared one root cause.
**Map: always show names.** New mapAlwaysShowNames setting, toggled from the
map panel. Names were shown only past zoom 14; the override wins at any zoom.
Evaluated at build rather than only on camera movement, so flipping the switch
repaints immediately instead of waiting for the next pan.
**Panel footer on every screen.** Disconnect and Settings now also appear
inside a channel. The footer is app-level, so it belongs anywhere the panel
is, not just the primary views.
**Back button (three reported symptoms, one cause).** Channels, Contacts and
Map each wrapped themselves in `PopScope(canPop: !isConnected)`, so while
connected the system back press was swallowed whole. That explains all three:
an open drawer would not close, Android would not background the app, and on
Windows the pinned layout has no Scaffold drawer, so the app bar auto-implied
a back arrow whose press PopScope then discarded - a button that visibly did
nothing.
AppShell now owns back handling for every screen that uses it, in order:
close an open drawer, else pop the route (a pushed chat returns to its list),
else hand back to the OS via SystemNavigator.pop() so Android returns to the
home screen or the previous app. The three per-screen PopScope wrappers are
removed. AppShell becomes stateful to hold the scaffold key this needs.
flutter analyze clean, dart format clean, 469 tests pass. Not yet re-tested on
hardware.
Epic D. The Map view has no list, so its nav panel was empty. It now carries
the map's own layer controls.
Those six toggles (chat nodes, repeaters, other nodes, discovery contacts,
guessed locations, overlaps) previously existed only in a modal behind the
floating button, so filtering the map meant covering the map with a dialog to
do it. In the panel, and especially pinned on a wide screen, they stay visible
and the map updates underneath as they are flipped.
Both surfaces read and write the same AppSettings, so a change in one is
reflected in the other. The floating-button dialog is deliberately left in
place: on a phone it is fewer taps than opening the drawer, and the panel is
the pinned-desktop path. If that duplication is unwanted, removing the dialog
is a one-line follow-up.
No new settings or storage; the existing setters were reused unchanged.
flutter analyze clean, dart format clean, 469 tests pass. Not yet run on
hardware.
Epic C, rescoped. The original plan was to eliminate the overflow menu and
move everything into the drawer. An inventory showed that premise was wrong:
the ellipsis is six different menus sharing an icon, and most of what they
hold is screen-level (force flood mode, path management, delete all
discovered). Those cannot live in a global nav panel, which has no notion of
which contact or channel is meant.
Only Disconnect and Settings are app-level, which is exactly why they were
duplicated across three screens. Those move; everything else stays put.
- AppShell gains optional onDisconnect / onSettings, rendered as a pinned
footer in the nav panel. Disconnect keeps the error colour it had as a red
menu entry, since it drops the radio connection.
- Channels, Contacts and Map pass both and drop those two menu entries.
- Map's overflow menu is removed entirely, having nothing left.
- Channels keeps its menu only for Manage Communities, which was already
conditional on having joined a community.
- Contacts keeps its menu for Discovered contacts.
- No detail screen menu is touched.
Pinned on a wide screen, Disconnect and Settings are now visible without
opening anything.
flutter analyze clean, dart format clean, 469 tests pass. Not yet run on
hardware.
The original diagnostic derived hops via realHopCount(), which divides a
value that firmware already defines as a hop count (src/Packet.h:79-84:
getPathByteLen() == getPathHashCount() * getPathHashSize()). It would have
reported hops=1 for a real 2-hop path, misleading the exact investigation
this logging exists to serve.
_pathDiag now reports the hop count directly and prints held-vs-implied
byte counts, flagging TRUNCATED when short. That makes the #309 decode
truncation self-evident in any capture without the device present.
The login dialogs no longer assert a hop count at all: selection.hopCount
is ambiguous by construction (device paths carry hops, user overrides carry
bytes, per #279), so they log the raw field, width and actual byte length,
which discriminates the two cases.
Refs #240, #279, #309
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Captures previously logged only a path byte length, making it impossible
to tell one 2-byte hop from two 1-byte hops - the exact question #240 and
#279 turn on. Bandit's 2026-07-18 log hit this wall.
Adds a shared _pathDiag() rendering (len, applied width, derived hops,
hop-grouped bytes) to the existing contact path log sites, and the same
detail to the repeater/room "Login routing" lines.
Also logs the path-hash width transition on every device-info frame, with
the frame length, so a short-frame downgrade to width 1 (#240) is visible
in any capture without needing the device. Warn on change, info otherwise.
Existing log sites only - no new per-frame logging (SAFELANE 11.10).
Display labels (#279) and the calculateTimeout unit bug (#299) are out of
scope here.
From the Gemini pre-PR review (standards#145).
ContactFilterRail computed each row's count with its own `where().length`, so
the contact list was walked once per filter. On a ~350-contact radio that is
~2100 iterations, re-run on every MeshCoreConnector notification, and those
arrive per packet during sync. Now a single pass fills all six counts, and the
per-contact unread lookup happens at most once instead of once per filter.
Also documents why context.select is NOT used in ChannelDrawerList, since the
review recommended it: `channels` is `List.unmodifiable(_channels)`, a fresh
instance per call, and Dart lists have no value equality, so select would
rebuild exactly as often as watch. Selecting on `length` instead would go
stale on a rename or reorder. watch is correct here; the comment records that
so the next reader does not re-litigate it.
Review findings not acted on:
- Claimed BLOCKER (context across an async gap in _blockChannelSender) is a
false positive: `mounted` guards are already present at :614 and :618 and
the messenger is captured before the await. It is also pre-existing code
from #172, not this branch.
- _lastChannelSendAt not cleared on channel switch: real behavior change, but
the suggested fix is questionable. That field is a send cooldown protecting
the radio, so clearing it on switch would let the limit be bypassed by
hopping channels. Raised with the owner rather than changed unilaterally.
flutter analyze clean, dart format clean, 445 tests pass.
The nav panel was empty on the Contacts view. It now carries the prebuilt
filters: All, Favorites, Users, Repeaters, Room Servers, Sensors, with Unread
Only as a toggle beneath them.
- Unread Only stays a toggle rather than a row, so it composes with the type
filter (Users + Unread Only = unread DMs), per the decision on #307.
- typeSupportsUnread() is the single predicate behind that: it currently
reduces to "not repeaters", since the connector refuses to track unread for
repeaters (meshcore_connector.dart:743, :6095) and the pair could only ever
be empty. The toggle is disabled there rather than silently useless.
- Each row shows how many contacts the filter would actually return, with
Unread Only applied when it is on, so the number never disagrees with the
list after tapping. Rendered as muted text rather than UnreadBadge, since it
is a total and not an unread count.
- Selecting a filter closes an unpinned drawer, matching the channel panel.
Selection persists through UiViewStateService, which already stored both the
type filter and the unread flag, so no new storage was needed.
flutter analyze clean, dart format clean, 445 tests pass. Not yet run on
hardware.
Sensors were the one advert type with no filter. advTypeSensor (4) already
existed in the protocol and Contact.typeLabelRaw already returned 'Sensor',
but ContactTypeFilter stopped at rooms, so sensor contacts could not be
isolated in either the contacts list or discovery.
- ContactTypeFilter gains `sensors`. Both exhaustive switches over it were
found by the analyzer rather than by hand: the contacts list predicate and
the search-hint text.
- discovery_screen's predicate has a `default: return false`, so it compiled
without a sensors case but would have silently shown an empty list. Added
explicitly.
- New l10n strings contacts_searchSensors and listFilter_sensors, regenerated
across all 18 locales. The 17 non-English locales fall back to the English
text and are recorded in untranslated.json, matching how existing strings
are handled.
- Persisted round-trip verified: UiViewStateService stores the filter by name
with orElse -> ContactTypeFilter.all, so older persisted values cannot throw
and `sensors` persists like the rest.
Groundwork for the Contacts filter rail (#307), but useful on its own: the
existing filter menu now offers Sensors.
flutter analyze clean, dart format clean, 445 tests pass.
Picking a channel from an unpinned drawer switched the channel but left the
drawer hanging open over it.
The close was attempted from the screen's State context, which sits above the
Scaffold that AppShell builds, so Scaffold.maybeOf never resolved it and
isDrawerOpen was always false. The close now happens in the drawer tile, whose
context is inside the Drawer, and uses closeDrawer() rather than popping a
route. Pinned layouts have no drawer to close and are unaffected.
Removes the two dead close attempts in ChannelChatScreen and ChannelsScreen.
flutter analyze clean, dart format applied. Not yet run on hardware.
The channel chat screen had a plain Drawer bolted onto it, so the panel could
only be pinned open on the four primary views. Pinning it while reading a
channel is the wide-screen case that was actually asked for: keeping the
channel list and its unread counts visible without pulling it out.
- AppShell now serves pushed detail screens as well: selectedIndex and
onDestinationSelected are optional, and the bottom bar is omitted when they
are absent (a pushed chat screen has no bottom bar).
- New appBarBuilder(context, pinned) lets a screen vary its app bar with the
dock state. ChannelChatScreen uses it to drop its hamburger when the panel
is already pinned open, since there is nothing left to summon.
- ChannelChatScreen builds on AppShell instead of a bare Scaffold, so it gets
the same transient/pinned layout as everything else.
The four primary views are untouched; the new parameters are additive.
flutter analyze clean, dart format applied. Not yet run on hardware.
Epic B of the navigation redesign (#102). Fills the drawer Epic A left empty
and puts it where the reported pain actually is: inside an open channel.
Previously, checking another channel meant backing out to the list, scanning
it, and navigating back in, with no way to see per-channel unread counts while
reading a channel. Now the hamburger opens a channel list showing every
channel's unread count, and tapping one switches straight to it.
- New lib/widgets/channel_drawer_list.dart. Per-tile unread via
context.select on getUnreadCountForChannelIndex, so a new message rebuilds
only that tile. Reuses UnreadBadge. Highlights the current channel.
- ChannelChatScreen gains the drawer plus an explicit leading hamburger: it is
a pushed route, so Scaffold would render a back arrow in that slot instead.
Switching uses pushReplacement, keeping the back stack one deep so system
back still returns to the channel list (owner decision, #84).
- ChannelsScreen shares one _openChannel path between its tiles and the
drawer, and closes the drawer before pushing.
flutter analyze clean, dart format applied. Not yet run on hardware.
Epic A of the navigation redesign (#102). Adds AppShell, which owns the
bottom QuickSwitchBar that Channels, Contacts, Map and Line-of-Sight each
mounted separately, plus a left nav drawer: a transient slide-out on narrow
layouts and a dockable panel that can be pinned open at >= 720px.
- New lib/widgets/app_shell.dart. Reuses the 720px breakpoint established by
settings_shell.dart. Pinned wide lays the panel out beside the body (Row),
unpinned uses a standard Scaffold drawer so the hamburger is injected
automatically; automaticallyImplyLeading:false was removed from the four
app bars to allow that.
- Pin state persists via UiViewStateService.navDrawerPinned. The load is
placed before the channel-sort block in initialize(), which returns early
and would otherwise skip it.
- drawerContent is an empty slot here; the channel list fills it in Epic B
(#289).
Per owner decisions on #102 (2026-07-16): the bottom bar stays a bottom bar
at every width (no left rail), and the drawer carries no view switcher, since
the bottom bar owns view switching.
flutter analyze clean, dart format applied. Not yet run on hardware.
The autocomplete only completed an unambiguous emoji on Enter; ambiguous
queries (e.g. `:shrug` with multiple matches) sent the literal text instead of
the highlighted glyph, and mentions only selected via Tab. Enter now accepts
the highlighted item (emoji or mention) like Tab, then sends; Tab still selects
without sending, Esc dismisses to send literal text. Removes the now-dead
_emojiQuery field. (#231, emoji + mentions per Ben)
Widget tests: Enter inserts the highlighted emoji (ambiguous `:shr`) and the
highlighted mention (`@Bo` -> @[Bob]).
Part of #231.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A reply prepends `@[Name] `, so a reply-gif renders the gif (prior commit);
this adds the `@Name` reply chip above it so it is clear the gif is a reply.
Extracts TranslatedMessageContent.mentionChip + leadingReplyName (shared by
inline rendering and the reply-gif header); the channel bubble builder renders
the chip above the GifMessage. DMs have no reply feature, so channel-only.
Part of #232.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two shared-root render gaps (message tokens were only matched at fixed
positions):
- TranslatedMessageContent: parse @[Name] anywhere (leading, inline, or
repeated) and render each as a chip; messages without a mention keep full
link support (#233).
- GifHelper.parseGif: strip a leading `@[Name] ` reply prefix before matching
so a reply-with-gif resolves to the gif instead of literal text; arbitrary
text before a gif is still left as text (#232).
Tests: parseGif reply/format cases + widget tests for inline/leading/multiple
mention chips. Full suite 402 green.
Part of #233, #232.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Connector: BlockService injected via initialize(); incoming DM from a blocked
key dropped (no thread/unread/notify), advert notifications gated at all 3
sites (advert still processed for name self-heal). App-push-layer only.
- Contacts + Discovery: blocked entries stay VISIBLE with a red block icon
(BlockedBadge) + strikethrough/muted name (not hidden).
- New lib/widgets/blocked_badge.dart.
Epic A #165 / A2 #169. Design: docs/architecture/block-contract-as-built.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three routing-match sites keyed/compared nodes by only the first
public-key byte, which collides when two nodes share a first byte on a
2-/3-byte path-hash mesh:
- DirectRepeater.matchesPathStart() replaces the 1-byte
`pubkeyFirstByte == pathBytes.first` direct-repeater check in
chat_screen and path_management_dialog (x3 each).
- map _computeGuessedLocations packs the full configured-width prefix as
the repeaterByHash key and looks up the contact-side hop at the same
width — was keying publicKey[0] but reading pathBytes.last, a silent
miss at width>1 that stopped location-guessing on multi-byte meshes.
- map _filterContactsBySettings overlap detection compares the
configured-width prefix via _samePubkeyPrefix (was publicKey.first).
Adds DirectRepeater.matchesPathStart unit tests. Bumps build to +46 for
the combined path-hash sweep test binary (b46: #151+#154+#155+#156).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The "Set Path" dialog parsed, built, and displayed hop prefixes as a fixed
1 byte (substring(0,2)), so on a 2-/3-byte path-hash mesh manual entry produced
wrong-width routing paths and the helper text claimed "1 byte". Make it width-
aware from connector.pathHashByteWidth.
- parsePathPrefixes(text, width, invalid): static + testable; each entry must be
EXACTLY width*2 hex chars (wrong-length / malformed go to invalid, never
silently truncated); width clamped >= 1.
- _updateTextFromContacts / display / maxLength group by the configured width;
the display substring is guarded against short keys.
- show() takes pathHashByteWidth; the chat + path-management callers pass
connector.pathHashByteWidth.
- l10n: reworded the path-entry helper / example / instructions to be width-
agnostic (dropped the "2 hex / 1 byte / first byte" claims). The 17 non-English
locales keep their prior strings, flagged for re-translation (English fixed).
analyze clean; 6 parsePathPrefixes tests (incl. exact-length + clamp). Gemini v1
BLOCKER (unguarded substring) + MAJOR (silent truncation) fixed; v2 MAJORs were
the pre-existing refresh button (out of scope), v2 MINOR (1-byte example) fixed.
Closes#155
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
PathHelper.formatPathHex / resolvePathNames assumed 1 byte per hop, so the
direct-chat "full path" and path-management dialogs rendered routing paths
per-byte (84,AB instead of 84AB) and resolved hop names by a single byte on
2-/3-byte path-hash meshes. Group bytes into pathHashByteWidth-sized hops and
match hop names by the full-width prefix.
- formatPathHex(bytes, width) / resolvePathNames(bytes, contacts, width) group
into width-byte hops (trailing partial hop kept); name match uses the full
hop prefix.
- chat_screen + path_management_dialog pass connector.pathHashByteWidth.
analyze clean; 7 PathHelper tests (incl. width-2 collision-avoidance); Gemini: ship.
Closes#154
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
DirectRepeater stored only pubkeyFirstByte (1 byte of the last hop), so the SNR
indicator + Nearby Repeaters dialog showed a 1-byte prefix and matched the wrong
repeater on 2-/3-byte path-hash meshes. Capture the last hop's full configured-
width prefix and use it for display, contact-match, and dedup.
- DirectRepeater.pubkeyPrefix (Uint8List) + prefixHex getter; pubkeyFirstByte
retained for the path-management / chat matching sites (those are #156).
- _updateDirectRepeater captures path[len-width..] (or the pubkey prefix when no
path); dedup by listEquals(pubkeyPrefix).
- snr_indicator: status-bar + dialog render prefixHex; matcher keys on the full
width prefix so the correct repeater name resolves.
Bumps build to +45. analyze clean; 6 DirectRepeater tests (2 new); Gemini: ship.
Closes#151
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Parse a leading @[Name] in the message body and render it as a rounded
pill that sets the name apart from the rest, matching the reference
client. Handles a missing space after the mention. Lives in
TranslatedMessageContent so channel + direct chat both get it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Match the typed text anywhere in the shortcode name (not just the prefix),
ranked exact > prefix > substring, so `:check` surfaces the checkmarks (✅ is
`white_check_mark`). Add check/checkmark/tick aliases for ✅ in a separate,
regen-safe map the chat + channel composers consume.
Closes#45
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Run dart format across the repo to clean drift in 5 files (channel_chat_screen, settings_screen, settings_shell, gif_picker, mention_autocomplete) from earlier straight-to-dev commits that never hit the format CI. No logic change.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
gif_picker.dart reads GIPHY_API_KEY from String.fromEnvironment instead of a
hardcoded constant - key is supplied at build time (--dart-define-from-file=
dart_defines.json, gitignored), never in source or history. Adds
dart_defines.example.json template + .gitignore entry; picker shows a hint
when no key is configured.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The maintainer's keyboard can't type emoji, so the composer now accepts
:shortcode: input with an inline autocomplete:
- Type `:` to open a bottom-anchored picker; arrows/Tab/click select, Esc
dismisses. Best/exact match sits at the bottom, nearest the caret.
- Enter completes an unambiguous emoji (single OR exact match) then sends,
so `:rofl` + Enter ships the glyph, not the literal text. Ambiguous
matches still send raw; Tab picks one deliberately.
- A completed `:name:` (closing colon) auto-converts in place.
- 1913 gemoji shortcodes bundled (lib/helpers/emoji_shortcodes.dart, MIT).
- Byte-count aware via the existing ByteCountedTextField; shares the
MentionAutocompleteField with @-mention input (both composers wired).
Version 9.0.0+12 -> 9.1.0+14 (MINOR feature; build kept monotonic after
the rebrand's +13 on the parallel chore/offband-rebrand branch).
Grid/tap picker deferred (#5 follow-up).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Typing @ at the start of a word opens a bottom-anchored dropdown above
the composer, filtered live by the text after @. Recent channel senders
sort to the bottom (most recent closest to the input, auto-highlighted);
other contacts stack above in alpha order (A nearest the input), with a
Recent divider between. Up/Down move the highlight, Tab or click selects
(inserting @[ExactName] at the cursor), Esc dismisses, Enter sends.
- New MentionAutocompleteField wrapping ByteCountedTextField with an
Overlay dropdown and FocusNode.onKeyEvent key handling
- _buildMentionCandidates sources recent senders from the channel
history plus contacts, deduped (recent wins)
Verified on desktop, including wrapped/multi-line input.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Add "Mark as Unread" option to message context menu in both
contact and channel chats
- Show "New messages" divider line between read and unread messages
- Add setContactUnreadCount/setChannelUnreadCount methods to connector
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Resolved conflicts by accepting refactored state management from main:
- list_filter_widget.dart: Adopt sealed class pattern for filter actions
- contacts_screen.dart: Move state to UiViewStateService instead of local setState
- device_screen.dart: Accept deletion (consolidated into other screens in main)
Main branch includes significant improvements:
- TCP and USB transport support
- Service-based state management with UiViewStateService
- Translation support with message translation buttons
- Signal UI consistency improvements
- Additional language support (hu, ja, ko)
- Comprehensive test coverage
- Discovery screen refactoring
adds a new widget that counts bytes during entry
configurable limit and shows user both count and limit
provides color feedback
use new widget in chat and channel text entry
this adds a generator showDismissibleSnackBar which by default allows
tapping to clear snack bar toasts. all SnackBar properties are still
available and the
all callers should now use showDismissibleSnackBar() instead of calling
ScaffoldMessenger.of(context).showSnackBar(SnackBar())
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