Render the weather example correctly on Android by skyturkish · Pull Request #1 · geastack/android

skyturkish · 2026-09-27T21:43:39Z

Brings the Android renderer in line with the fixed Windows renderer and the browser for the weather example. Needs the core PR for bold text and :root padding.

Scale the app's gea.designWidth to the real surface width, reading it from package.json when inspect doesn't report it.
Scroll rails no longer move twice as far as the finger. The engine already offsets a scroller's children, and the ScrollView moved them again, so taps after scrolling hit the wrong chip.
Use the platform touch slop, so a tap on a chip isn't lost to finger jitter. Only mostly-sideways travel pans a rail.
overflow other than visible now clips, and so do scrollers, using outline clipping because the ViewGroup clip flags have no effect without padding. object-fit: cover/none images crop to their box.
Text sits in its CSS line box (half-leading from font metrics) instead of hard-coded px nudges tuned at DPR 1.5. Single-line text-align: center works.
Fetch threads detach from the JVM; object-fit is applied to images.

Verified: full debug APK build (Java + NDK). Not yet checked on a device: rail swiping 1:1, tapping a chip after scrolling, centred forecast labels, and the vertical position of the hero text.

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Improvements
- Android apps can use their configured design width to determine display scaling at runtime.
- Images now support fill, contain, cover, none, and scale-down sizing, with overflow clipped to the view.
- Scrolling responds more naturally to touch gestures, and content inside scrollable areas stays positioned correctly.
- Text alignment and vertical placement are more consistent across Android devices.

Two faults in the same file, both reachable only through fetch. This target has one app that fetches, so neither has surfaced before. A thread that attaches to the VM has to detach before it exits or ART aborts the process. currentEnv() called AttachCurrentThread and nothing here ever called DetachCurrentThread, while host/host/fetch.cpp runs every request on its own detached std::thread -- so each completed request left a thread exiting while still attached. The attachment now rides that thread's storage and detaches as the thread unwinds, and only for threads this file attached: detaching one that GetEnv found already attached (the UI thread) would tear down its JNI state. androidFetch also held g_jni_mutex across the blocking call into Java, which parks for as long as the request takes. androidConnected() takes the same mutex and the frame thread asks it every tick through wifi().connected(), so the UI stalled for the whole request. The bridge globals are written once, so both functions now copy them under the lock and release it before calling. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

The device pixel ratio was baked in at build time and defaulted to 1.5, which has nothing to do with the panel the app ends up on. On a 1080x2400 phone that makes the logical viewport 720x1600, so an app whose stylesheets carry a desktop breakpoint sees it fire and collapses to the small fixed size behind it -- a card stranded in the middle of the screen. When the app declares gea.designWidth, the view now divides its real width by that instead, which pins the logical width to what the stylesheets were written for and scales every CSS px to fill the panel. The build script has to stand the default down to 0 for such an app, because a configured ratio wins over the computed one; the env override still beats both, for debugging a specific device. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

ImageNodeView hard-coded ScaleType.FIT_XY, so every image was stretched to fill its box whatever the CSS said. object-fit never reached this side at all — the node array carried image_id but not image_fit — so the value had to be added before it could be honoured. Weather's forecast icons show the cost: 30x30 artwork in a 24x20 slot declared `object-fit: contain`, drawn 20% too wide on every hour and day in the rail. The field is appended at the end of the array so existing indices are untouched; the count moves 88 -> 89 on both sides. ImageView has no scale-down equivalent, so that value maps to FIT_CENTER, the nearest honest behaviour — it differs from CSS only for an image smaller than its box. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

The build read designWidth only from the CLI's app summary, and the published CLI's `inspect` does not report the field yet. An app built with it got 0, so the view rendered at panel density in a corner of the surface instead of scaling its layout to the width. Read `gea.designWidth` from the app's own package.json when the summary has none, as build-windows.mjs does. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

The engine already places a scroller's children at their scrolled positions: resolveAbsoluteCoords subtracts scroll_x/scroll_y from every child. The view placed them there inside the ScrollView's content and then scrolled the content by the same offset (setNativeScroll), so a rail moved twice as far as the finger, a blank strip opened at its end, and a tap after scrolling landed on a different chip than the one drawn under it -- the engine hit-tests the single-offset positions. Undo the engine's share for a ScrollView's children, using the offset the view actually took, so only the native scroll moves them and what is drawn is what the engine hit-tests. This holds for vertical lists and virtual lists too, and a scroll step no longer re-lays-out every child. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

A press on a scroller became a drag after 8 raw px, which is about 2 CSS px on a 1080-wide phone. The jitter of an ordinary tap on a rail's chip crossed it, turned into a pan and lost its click. Take the slop from ViewConfiguration instead, which is sized to a fingertip on this panel. A rail that scrolls only sideways also claimed any travel past the slop, vertical included. Lock it only when the travel is mostly sideways, and hand a vertical swipe that happens to start on a rail back to the engine. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

O_OVERFLOW reached the view but nothing read it, so `overflow: hidden` never clipped, and a scroll rail's content drew past the rail's edge. Neither ViewGroup switch can express the clip here: clipToPadding is skipped in dispatchDraw while the padding is all zero, which it is for every container, and clipChildren is the parent's say over its children, which stays off so text ink can spill out of its box. Clip a box with any overflow but visible, and every scroller, to its own BOUNDS outline instead; it holds whatever the parent does and stays put while the content scrolls beneath it. An ImageView with object-fit cover or none draws the bitmap larger than its box and only crops it when asked, so the backdrop spilled over the neighbouring layout. Set cropToPadding on image nodes. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

Text was pinned to the top of its box and then lifted by visualTextShiftY, a nudge with absolute px thresholds tuned at a device pixel ratio of 1.5. At the ~4 a phone gets under a design width they no longer scale: text sat several CSS px too high, the clamp meant it could never move down, and the degree-sign special case stopped firing. Replace it with the CSS half-leading taken from the paint's own metrics, in either direction: a line box shorter than the font's natural line lets the glyphs spill out of it unclipped, one taller centres them. The TextView already advances lines by the line-height, so one shift centres every line. A single line is measured at its natural width, so the TextView's gravity had no room to act on it and `text-align: center` rendered left-aligned (the forecast labels and temperatures). Place the line in its box by the horizontal text-align instead; a line too long for its box stays start-aligned, as CSS specifies. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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The Android build and native view now handle design-width-based pixel scaling and updated image, overflow, scroll, and text presentation. Android JNI network calls now manage native-thread attachment and use copied bridge references without holding the mutex during Java calls.

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Design-width scaling `targets/android/build-android.sh`, `targets/android/native/GeaNativeView.java.in`	The build script reads and passes the app’s design width. The native view calculates pixel ratio from design width and surface width when both are positive.
Image-fit and overflow presentation `targets/android/native/android_jni.cpp.in`, `targets/android/native/GeaNativeView.java.in`	The node snapshot appends the image-fit value. The native view maps image-fit values to Android scale types and applies overflow clipping.
Scroll and text positioning `targets/android/native/GeaNativeView.java.in`	Native scroll gestures use Android’s scaled touch slop and select an axis based on available scrolling and gesture direction. Child placement accounts for actual scroll offsets. Text positioning uses line gravity and font-metric half-leading.

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JNI thread and bridge handling `targets/android/native/android_network.cpp`	JNI environment handling attaches native threads when needed and detaches threads attached by this code. `androidConnected()` and `androidFetch()` copy bridge references under the mutex, then call Java without holding it.

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Small images using scale-down can appear enlarged on Android. Fix this bounded rendering issue or explicitly accept it before merging.

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Android network calls can now run concurrently instead of waiting behind one another. That should prevent a slow fetch from blocking connectivity checks, but a burst of fetches may create many simultaneous threads and connections. No new network privilege or exposure beyond the Android app is evident.

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Medium · reliability · inferred: Releasing the bridge mutex across Java fetches removes the previous serialization point. If repeated fetches are reachable, the unchanged per-request Java worker can multiply simultaneous threads and connections, weakening availability containment within the Android app.

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inferred — The identified concurrency exposure concerns threads, connections, and availability in the Android app process. The inspected change does not establish a new credential, Java method authority, or cross-service dependency.

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inferred — If attacker-influenced app behavior can initiate many fetches, calls no longer wait for the prior JNI serialization and can accumulate Java workers and connections. Attacker reachability and any upstream concurrency control were not established.

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observed — The existing native-to-Java boundary still uses registered static bridge methods. The Java fetch has timeouts and connection cleanup; JNI exceptions retain fallback handling. No bridge deletion or replacement path appears in the inspected native implementation.

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inferred — The attachment guard covers successful native attachment, failed attachment, already-attached callers, repeated calls, and thread exit. Its VM-lifetime assumption cannot be checked against an Android unload or reinitialization path from the available source.

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proposed — Consider a bounded fetch queue or concurrency limit separate from the JNI reference mutex, preserving responsive connectivity checks without relying on serialized Java calls for resource containment.

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+        case 1: scaleType = ImageView.ScaleType.FIT_CENTER; break;   // contain
+        case 2: scaleType = ImageView.ScaleType.CENTER_CROP; break;  // cover
+        case 3: scaleType = ImageView.ScaleType.CENTER; break;       // none
+        case 4: scaleType = ImageView.ScaleType.FIT_CENTER; break;   // scale-down


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Map scale-down to CENTER_INSIDE.

If a bitmap is smaller than its image box, FIT_CENTER enlarges it. CSS object-fit: scale-down must leave that bitmap at its natural size. Android’s CENTER_INSIDE keeps a smaller bitmap unscaled and shrinks a larger bitmap to fit. (w3.org)

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- case 4: scaleType = ImageView.ScaleType.FIT_CENTER; break; // scale-down + case 4: scaleType = ImageView.ScaleType.CENTER_INSIDE; break; // scale-down

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case 4: scaleType = ImageView.ScaleType.FIT_CENTER; break; // scale-down

case 4: scaleType = ImageView.ScaleType.CENTER_INSIDE; break; // scale-down

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