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KeelrLeek e1bf456743 android auto: the car can see the app, and the root it opens is empty
Android Auto reaches a media app through `MediaBrowserService`, so `MediaService`
becomes a `MediaLibraryService`, one intent filter carries three actions — media3's
`MediaLibraryService` and `MediaSessionService`, plus the legacy
`android.media.browse.MediaBrowserService` that Auto actually binds — and
`res/xml/automotive_app_desc.xml` with the `com.google.android.gms.car.application`
meta-data declares the app to the car. Auto lists SoulStream, opens it, and gets a
browsable root. There is nothing under it: `onGetChildren` is left un-overridden so
the default answers `ERROR_NOT_SUPPORTED` at once, and round fifty fills the tree.

`onGetLibraryRoot` answers out of `Futures.immediateFuture` — no database, no I/O,
nothing deferred — because `MediaLibraryServiceLegacyStub.onGetRoot` blocks the
binder thread serving the host on that future with NO timeout and runs the callback
on the main handler. A root that waits on anything is a head unit that gives up.

The round carries a mitigation it cannot be split from. androidx/media #3158 — open
since 2026-04-03, confirmed again 2026-09-04, reproduced on media3 1.11.0 — has a
host that binds a `MediaLibraryService` with nothing playing drive the service round
`onCreate` → `onBind` → `onGetSession` → `onConnect` → `onDestroy` at about thirty
cycles a second, deterministically after a force-stop with no existing binding. That
is exactly how Auto connects and exactly what the prober does. media3 will not act
before an Auto-side fix lands, so the loop cannot be stopped from here; it can only
be made to cost nothing. The session, the player, the notification provider, the
audio-focus request and the becoming-noisy receiver move into `MediaHub` for the life
of the PROCESS and `onCreate` allocates and registers nothing — round forty-eight's
version would have built a platform session and a legacy browser stub thirty times a
second, registered and unregistered a receiver sixty times a second, and abandoned
audio focus thirty times a second while music was playing.

Three consequences, each a trap for the next round. `onDestroy` calls `removeSession`
and never `release()`: `removeSession` drops the session from that instance's map and
clears its listener, which is what stops a destroyed service being called back, while
`markReleased()` would latch `released` and leave a process-lifetime player that never
updates the card again. The session is built with
`MediaLibrarySession.Builder(applicationContext, …)` rather than the
`(MediaLibraryService, …)` overload, because `MediaSessionServiceLegacyStub.initialize()`
does `attachToBaseContext(sessionImpl.getContext())` — a session built against the
Service pins a destroyed Service as the base context of a live
`MediaBrowserServiceCompat`. And nothing releases the session any more, so it and its
platform `MediaSessionCompat` live until the process dies; the walk's `one-session`
check is what keeps that honest. `onCreate` logs `auto service created n=…` and
`onDestroy` logs `auto service destroyed`, which are the only way to count the loop on
a real phone.

And the instrument. `tools/auto-prober/` is a throwaway app that binds the same way
Auto does, with Auto's own root hints, walks whatever tree comes back, and logs one
JSON object per event under `SoulAutoProbe`. It is framework-only
(`android.media.browse.MediaBrowser`, not androidx, not media3) because that is the
path Auto itself takes into a media3 app, and a prober built out of the library it is
probing would not prove that path works. It lives outside `src-tauri/gen/android/`
because `tauri android init` would delete it, and borrows the generated project's
Gradle wrapper rather than shipping one, so a run downloads nothing. With SoulStream
force-stopped there is no WebView, so no CDP, so `smoke.mjs` is blind to every bit of
this — the prober is the only eye the project has on Auto without a head unit. The
number it exists for is `root`: milliseconds from `connect()` to `onConnected()` with
the process cold.

Two corrections to the plan, argued in the files. `adb shell pm dump` is
`dumpsys package` and prints NO application meta-data, so the Auto declaration cannot
be a hard walk assertion — the two that ARE hard are the intent filters
(`auto-browse`, `auto-library`), which catch the `TAURI_ANDROID_PROJECT_PATH` trap
completely because the filters and the meta-data live in one library manifest and are
lost together; the declaration is read instead by the prober, through
`PackageManager.GET_META_DATA` and the app's own `Resources`, and echoed back by the
walk as the advisory `auto-desc`. And the prober module compiles at jvmTarget 1.8 like
every other module here, not 17 — JDK 17 is what RUNS Gradle.

No Rust, no frontend, no cargo. The round was authored where none of it could be
compiled and it has now been built and run: the Kotlin compiles, the APK installs, and
the prober binds the app cold. `desc` resolves the meta-data to a real
`xml/automotive_app_desc`; `filter` shows BOTH the legacy
`android.media.browse.MediaBrowserService` and media3's own resolving to
`MediaService`; `root` comes back at ~2.2 s with `ss:root` and a session token, of
which the callback itself is about nine milliseconds and the rest is the cold process
starting; `children` answers `n=-1` with nothing in it, which is the un-overridden
default doing its job; and `auto service created n=1 reused=false` — #3158 does not
loop here.

One fix the first run earned. The prober read the descriptor's `name` out of the
android namespace, but Google's `<uses name="media"/>` is a BARE attribute with no
namespace, so it came back `[""]` — a real declaration and a dangling resource id
reported identically, which is the single thing the event exists to tell apart. It
reads the null namespace now and keeps ANDROID_NS as a fallback; the second run says
`uses:["media"]`.

None of this proves the car screen: the Desktop Head Unit or a real head unit is the
only thing that shows what Auto draws, how it groups a tree, or whether a tap plays.
This proves the app answers.
2026-09-15 09:16:53 -05:00
KeelrLeek 3a8ccd4640 android: the lock-screen card, moved to media3 before anything is built on it
The card Kyle sees every day was a hand-built MediaStyle notification over a
MediaSessionCompat, on `androidx.media`, deprecated since May. Android Auto
needs a media3 session to browse, so the choice was to write the new thing
against a deprecated library or to move the old thing first; this moves the
old thing and adds no Auto. `MediaService` is a `MediaSessionService` and a
new `SoulStreamPlayer` is the `SimpleBasePlayer` media3 asks for when the
engine lives somewhere else — rodio, in Rust, behind a WebView round trip —
so `getState()` is a pure read of the last `NowPlayingArgs` off the bridge,
queue window and all, and every button routes back out through `MediaHub.act`.

Three corrections to the plan, each the kind that only shows up on a phone.
media3 **1.10.1**, not 1.11.0, whose POM drags kotlin-stdlib 2.2.10 into a
project that compiles with Kotlin 1.9.25. The audio-focus and becoming-noisy
blocks STAY hand-rolled: `setAudioAttributes(…, handleAudioFocus)` is an
ExoPlayer convenience that lands in a `@ForOverride` method which throws, and
deleting them would have lost "another app takes the output" and "headphones
out" with nothing failing anywhere. And the service is BOUND, never started —
`MediaSessionService.onStartCommand` returns `START_STICKY` without promoting
for any intent that is not media3's own, so a `startForegroundService` would
arm the ten-second kill timer and satisfy nothing, which is the 2026-09-13 bug
in a new coat. Four more things are load-bearing and silent when they break: a
playlist that must never be empty while a track exists, `COMMAND_GET_TIMELINE`
with `COMMAND_GET_CURRENT_MEDIA_ITEM`, `STATE_READY` while paused, and both
spellings of next and previous. Each ends in a card that is simply never
posted, with nothing in any log. The window carries `queueBase` now, for a
stable media-item uid as it slides, and `repeat`, whose numbering is swapped
between the app and media3, so that what a controller is told about repeat is
the truth and media3's own view of the end of the queue agrees with the
`hasNext` the next button is advertised on.

The 2026-09-13 bug has a second door, and `onStartCommand` is what shuts it.
media3 hands the framework a media-button `PendingIntent` built with
`PendingIntent.getForegroundService`, unconditionally, because the receiver the
legacy stub resolves is now this service — there being no `MediaButtonReceiver`
left for it to find. So the SYSTEM starts this service in the foreground on
every media KEY, while media3 promotes only for a session it calls
user-engaged. A key into a process built for that key, a key on a card paused
past the ten-minute tail that does not start playback, any key with the bar
cleared: none of them qualify, and each would take the app down ten seconds
later. (The card's own buttons are milder — only play/pause, and only while
paused, is a foreground start.) So `onStartCommand` promotes first, the way
this service always did — through media3's own `onUpdateNotification` when
there is a card to post, and otherwise with a plain notification of its own,
posted and withdrawn in the same breath. `Service`'s
`startForeground` is final, so the split is by what media3 can be asked to do,
not by watching it.

The walk gains `one-card` and `one-session` — the only checks that tell a
landed migration from a doubled one — plus an advisory `media-plumbing` line;
the logged window grew `base` and `rep`, which are the only readback either
field has anywhere on the device and which `queue-window` now asserts; and the
paused-restore wait goes to 25 s, which ANDROID.md had already claimed in one
place and contradicted in another. ANDROID.md also says plainly what the walk
cannot prove and Kyle has to try himself: headphones out, another app taking
focus, the card's actual look, and a Bluetooth headset's own buttons. The
Kotlin is unbuilt — no Kotlin compiler here — and was read against javap of
media3 1.10.1 and the real sources of `SimpleBasePlayer`, `MediaSessionService`,
`MediaNotificationManager` and `DefaultMediaNotificationProvider`; the manifest
and resources compile and link under aapt2, and the Rust type-checks.
2026-09-15 09:09:36 -05:00
KeelrLeek afcd3cc7f3 android: the media mirror grows a queue window the card never shows
The Kotlin side of the mirror has always known about exactly one track, and
media3's `SimpleBasePlayer.getState()` — the thing an Android Auto session is
built on — wants a playlist and an index into it. So the data lands a round
before the migration that needs it, where it cannot break anything:
`NowPlaying` and `NowPlayingArgs` carry a bounded `queue` of at most
twenty-one entries, the current item and ten either side, each with its id,
title, artist, album, duration and art key, plus `queueIndex`, where the
current one sits within that window rather than within the whole queue.
`src/mobile/media.svelte.js` fills them from `player.queue` and `player.qi`;
`MediaService` ignores every bit of it, so the card is byte for byte the card
it was. Ten either side because one covers the card's own prev and next and
nothing else while a queue list — which is what Auto asks for — wants a
screenful plus a scroll both ways, and it is a cap rather than a length: a
two-thousand-track queue crosses the bridge as twenty-one entries exactly
like a twenty-one-track one, measured at two kilobytes of JSON for twenty-one
short titles and six with long ones and real cover paths, against the thirty
to eighty of base64 cover that already ride the same call once per record.

Nothing renders it, which is the whole difficulty in checking it — and both
hops of this bridge fail silently, because serde drops an unknown field and
tauri's Jackson mapper has `FAIL_ON_UNKNOWN_PROPERTIES` off, so a key spelled
snake_case where camelCase was wanted arrives as nothing at all with no error
anywhere. `MediaSessionPlugin.update` logs one line per update, and the phone
walk holds that line against `__ss.card` — the mirror media.svelte.js now
keeps of what it last sent, the shape xfernote has kept of the shade since it
was written — field for field, through a next and a previous. The art-key
count is compared as well as the size and the index, since that is the only
camelCase field an entry has. The check arms at queue index one rather than
at wherever the walk left off, which buys a row on either side — `prev()`
seeks to zero at the top of a queue and `next()` stops at the end — a track
that has only just started, so `prev()` is still a step rather than the seek
it becomes past five seconds, and a window whose own index is the queue
index, because nothing is clamped off the front while the index is under ten.
Each of the three readings has to be a fresh one at both ends, the push
counter up and a new line in the log, since a `prev()` that lands back where
it started reads exactly like a stale line otherwise; and a queue too short
to arm, or repeat-one, under which `next()` seeks instead of stepping, fails
the check rather than skipping it.

The plugin's `consumer-rules.pro` keeps the new `@InvokeArg` class by name
beside the one it already keeps; without that line a release build would fill
`NowPlayingArgs` and leave every queue entry null, quietly. Rust and Kotlin
both changed, so this one cannot go down `dev.sh` — it needs the full
`deploy.sh` detour. And everything the walk already asserts about the card is
untouched, which is the real check on this round.
2026-09-15 07:22:02 -05:00
KeelrLeek 07dad65ca5 android: the keep rules, and the release build that proves them
Every APK this port has produced is `assembleArm64Debug`, and the generated
project turns R8 on for `release` and only for `release` — while tauri finds a
plugin class by string, files every `@Command` under `commands[method.name]`,
and lets Jackson fill every `@InvokeArg` field by field. Minification breaks
exactly that, and it breaks it without a word: the app compiles, installs,
launches, shows Home, and then a tap on Library folder answers "No command
pickFolder found for plugin ..." in logcat and nothing on screen. So each
plugin module now carries its own `consumer-rules.pro` naming its own
reflected surface — the shape tauri-android and tauri-plugin-dialog already
use in this build, and one that travels with the plugin into a regenerated
`gen/android`, which a rule written into that gitignored tree would not.

What belongs to no single plugin is in `src-tauri/android/proguard-soulstream.pro`,
copied into the generated project by the build script because the app's own
Gradle file is regenerated: the runtime annotation attributes, a `-dontwarn`
pair for the two `java.beans` classes jackson-databind references and Android
does not have (R8 turns a missing class into a build error, so without them
there may be no APK at all), and a keep for the four `@Command` methods
declared on `app.tauri.plugin.Plugin` itself. Tauri's own rule matches classes
annotated `@TauriPlugin` and the members they declare; the base class carries
no such annotation, so nothing names `registerListener` — which is what the
lock-screen card's buttons and the download notice's Cancel and Open ride on.

`build.sh` grows `--release`: the release profile, `--features tauri/devtools`
so the walk can still attach at all, `assembleArm64Release`, and a zipalign and
sign with the same debug key the phone already trusts, so the APK installs over
the app rather than forcing an uninstall that would take Kyle's settings with
it. With no argument the script is what it has always been, cargo line for
cargo line, so deploy.sh and ship.sh keep the path they run every twenty
minutes. And it has been built. Not on the phone and not as arm64 — as **x86_64**, on an
emulator, because that is what this machine can run — but the flavour is the
only difference: the same Gradle, the same R8, the same rules, the same
zipalign and apksigner. `minifyX86_64ReleaseWithR8` succeeded and wrote **no**
`missing_rules.txt` at all, which is the `-dontwarn` pair doing its job;
`lintVitalX86_64Release` passed, so the `-x lintVital` advice is for a failure
that has not happened. The signed APK went over the debug app with
`adb install -r` and left its data alone, exactly as the same-key argument
above says it must.

Then the minified app was walked: Home, the record, playback, the queue, the
sheets, the lyrics, the drags, the export — **131 of 131, no exceptions, no
console errors, every step as expected**, and nothing in logcat about a missing
command or class. That is the failure this round exists to prevent, looked for
and not found.

What it does not cover is the hands-only list in ANDROID.md — the pickers, the
notification buttons, the share sheet — which no walk reaches, and the four
`@Command` methods on `Plugin` itself remain a precaution rather than a
diagnosed bug. The document says so, command by command.
2026-09-14 11:09:33 -05:00