feat(android): ask for the local network when a group opens

Android 17 makes it a permission for an application targeting SDK 37.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/packages/meshbay-hub/src/meshbay_hub/static/platform.js b/packages/meshbay-hub/src/meshbay_hub/static/platform.js
index 3a91417d..d773200f 100644
--- a/packages/meshbay-hub/src/meshbay_hub/static/platform.js
+++ b/packages/meshbay-hub/src/meshbay_hub/static/platform.js
@@ -93,6 +93,20 @@ export const capabilities = {
 };
 
 /**
+ * Android 17's permission to reach the local network, in the Android
+ * application (shell/LocalNetwork.kt): `state()` is "granted", "prompt" while
+ * Android will still ask, or "denied" once only the settings can change it.
+ * Absent in a browser, which holds that permission itself and where a page
+ * cannot ask for it, and on the desktop, where there is no such permission.
+ */
+export const localNetwork = {
+  available: Boolean(bridge && bridge.localNetwork),
+  state() { return bridge.localNetwork.state(); },
+  request() { return bridge.localNetwork.request(); },
+  openSettings() { return bridge.localNetwork.openSettings(); },
+};
+
+/**
  * The app's secret store, as far as the page may know it.
  *
  * The store is the main process's (the OS keychain through safeStorage) and it