meshbay.git/packages/meshbay-android/README.md, branch 0.20

feat(android): no text messages backup, and one build again

2026-10-15T13:09:58Z

READ_SMS sits behind restricted settings outside a store and Play keeps it for the default SMS application: not worth a second build. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5

feat(android): back text messages up, in a build Play does not get

2026-10-10T12:40:05Z

A Messages section sends the SMS added since the last copy, as restorable XML, into /-messages/YYYY. A play flavor has neither READ_SMS nor the code that reads messages; full is the default. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5

feat: back up the phone's photos to a group, once a day on Wi-Fi

2026-10-09T16:23:56Z

The Android application sends the photos taken on the phone to one folder of one group chosen by the member (docs/MESHBAY_DESIGN.md §9.12). The phone lists MediaStore, keeps a ledger of what was sent and hands each photo's bytes to the page by an opaque token on the packaged origin; the page decides when a run is due and uploads through the existing path, one photo at a time under a slot. - Once a day from the last finished run, on an unmetered network only; "Back up now" asks first on mobile data. Leaving Wi-Fi stops after the file in flight. - Photos already on the phone are sent by default, newest first, under /YYYY/MM; edits are sent beside the original as -edited-. - Additive by construction: nothing is ever deleted, renamed or replaced on the node, and a photo deleted on the node is not sent again. - A confirmation names the group, owner, members, folder and size when the destination or starting point changes; a lasting refusal (disk full, folder read-only or gone, no longer a member) is said once and retried a day later. - No ACCESS_MEDIA_LOCATION, so the platform redacts photo locations. - A dataSync foreground service keeps a run going with the screen off. HEIC/HEIF photos are sent but not shown in Photos yet (§15.2). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5

feat: notifications on Android while closed, with nothing to install

2026-10-09T10:08:31Z

The phone fetches what is new every fifteen minutes with a poll secret (POST /v1/push/poll) that reads notification lines and nothing else. When a UnifiedPush distributor is already installed, the hub also pushes at once, encrypted to the phone (RFC 8291); losing the distributor falls back to fetching. The hub now honours "disable all notifications" itself: create_notification creates nothing for that account, as it already did for a muted group, so neither switch lets anything reach a phone. The interface used to be the only reader of the account-wide switch. Push endpoints are member-supplied URLs: a send refuses non-public addresses, connects to the address it checked, and follows no redirect. Android build untested here (no SDK on this machine). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5

feat: sign Android releases with the release key

2026-10-08T09:40:17Z

assembleRelease reads the key from ~/.gradle/gradle.properties and fails without it instead of falling back to the debug key. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5

feat(android): music keeps playing with the screen off

2026-10-04T20:46:00Z

While a track plays, the page asks the shell to stay awake (playback:keep-alive): on Android the cast's foreground service and visible WebView, with a notification; on desktop a power save blocker. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5

feat(android): the MeshBay icon

2026-10-03T12:24:54Z

The desktop client's icon in the adaptive icon's safe zone, over its own edge colour, so no launcher mask crops the M. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5

feat(android): casting through a LAN relay and the platform cast SDK

2026-10-03T12:24:54Z

A port of cast-relay.js (backlog also bounded in bytes), discovery and control with the default media receiver, relay calls kept in order, and a foreground service plus a WebView kept visible so a cast survives the screen going off. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5

feat(android): downloads to disk and uploads through the system picker

2026-10-03T12:24:54Z

Native save over the Storage Access Framework and MediaStore, chunks sent as binary bridge messages, a chosen folder that has gone asks rather than redirects, unfinished files removed on abort and after a killed process. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5

feat(android): device key, bundle key and node identities held natively

2026-10-03T12:24:54Z

Keystore-wrapped store, a Kotlin port of keyring.js and transcripts.js held to the shared vectors, the same keys/device/secrets bridge as the desktop, and a native confirmation before browser access is widened. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5