FR-PLAT-AND-5. Android asks for memory back through onTrimMemory and
kills the process if it is not given; until now nothing listened, so the
answer was always "no".
A tiered registry answers instead: GPU caches first, then proxies, then
thumbnails, driven from android_main on MainEvent::LowMemory and
MainEvent::Stop. The order is the argument. A backgrounded app has no
window to draw and therefore no use for a render pipeline, while its
thumbnails are exactly what the user will be looking at half a second
after they come back -- so going into the background frees only the GPU
tier, and only being measured against death frees everything.
Sinks register beside the cache they free and hold weak handles, so the
registry cannot keep a controller -- and every decoded portrait in it --
alive past the interface it belonged to. `try_borrow_mut` and skip: a
warning can land mid-render, freeing textures under the code drawing
with them is worse than missing one, and a warning not acted on is
always followed by another.
The GPU test is the one that matters: an eviction must change no pixel.
A freed intermediate pool whose `colour_key` promise still stands
renders an empty texture, and nothing else would have caught it.
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`RemoteBackend` existed from the first release and bought nothing it was
designed for. Seven files in `dr-ui` constructed a `NextcloudBackend`
directly, an account *was* a server URL beside a DAV user id, the local
cache directory was named after a hostname, and the launch screen knew
that signing in meant a browser handshake. The trait was real; the seam
was documentation.
A trait over operations is only a quarter of it. Pluggable storage needs
four things, and this adds the other three:
- **Capabilities** — already there, and the reason the engine can drive
two backends at the speed each actually runs at.
- **Configuration** — `dr_sync::Account`: where a library lives, in
whatever form its connector addresses, with no server in it. Loads
every existing config unchanged (`backend` defaults to `nextcloud`,
`endpoint` is stored under its historical `server` key), and
`Account::namespace()` reproduces the old catalog directory byte for
byte, because changing it would abandon a catalog, its thumbnail
shards, and the sidecars holding unsynced offline work.
- **Registration** — `BackendProvider` and `BackendRegistry`.
`ui/dr-ui/src/remote.rs` is now the only file above `dr-sync` that
names a connector.
`Connection` (an account plus an optional `Secret`) replaces the
credentials-and-user-id pair that was threaded through fifteen
signatures in an order that could be swapped. `Secret`'s inner string is
reachable only through `expose()` and its `Debug` prints `Secret(***)`,
so the indirect leak — a `{:?}` on anything holding one — no longer
compiles into a leak.
Nextcloud is unchanged and keeps every peculiarity: propagating ETags,
chunked upload v2, `oc:fileid`, the `oc:permissions` probe on a refused
PUT, the 423 retry classification, Login Flow v2. Those are what the
capability model exists to serve, not something to hide.
`dr-sync-folder` is the second connector: a local disk, a network mount,
an external drive, or a folder a Nextcloud client already syncs. No
account, no credential — the route that works where no secrets daemon
does. It declares `LocalEtags` rather than claiming propagation a POSIX
directory cannot provide, which costs nothing because 50k `stat` calls
are not 50k PROPFINDs. Identity is a path hash, not an inode: an inode
survives a rename but differs between devices and is reused after a
delete, so two machines would disagree about which photograph a
thumbnail belonged to. Re-deriving a thumbnail is a cost; showing the
wrong one is a bug.
docs/storage.md is the contract — the traits, the four steps to add a
backend, and what each connector declares. ARCH §8.0 and §8.4a, and
FR-NC-13, say why.
Face indexing was compiled into the APK all along — dr-ui takes dr-face with
`inference` on every target, so SCRFD, alignment, MBF, calibration and
clustering were all in there. What was missing was the weights, and on Android
there was no way to supply them.
Route C (docs/faces.md §2.2) says the user obtains the model and the app loads
it. On a desktop that is a real gesture: drop two files in
~/.local/share/darkroom/models/ and indexing starts working. On Android it is
not a gesture at all. `internal_data_path` is app-private, `run-as` needs a
debuggable build, and the in-app fetch route C specifies was never built — so
the settings page reported "no face model is installed" on every launch with
nothing behind the message. Not "off until you supply weights"; off.
So the shape-fixed pair goes into LFS under the APK's assets, assemble-apk.sh
copies it into the package, and `android_main` unpacks it to the shared models
directory before anything asks whether a model is present.
Three things that are not incidental:
The models directory is now shared across accounts rather than per-account.
Weights are identified by `faces.model_id`, not by who is signed in, so two
accounts had no reason to hold two copies — and the unpack runs before any
session exists to key a per-account path off. `face_models` still prefers a
per-account directory when one is populated, so anyone mid-migration keeps the
ability to pin one library to its own pair.
The unpack writes under a temporary name and renames. `face_models` decides
availability on `is_file()` alone, so a copy truncated by the process being
killed would leave a file that passes that test and fails inside tract —
reported to the user as a broken model rather than a missing one.
assemble-apk.sh refuses an LFS pointer. At ~130 bytes it looks exactly like a
model to `cp`, and unchecked it reaches the device and fails in the graph
loader instead of telling someone to run `git lfs pull` — the same guard
dr-segment's build script applies to yolo26n-seg.onnx.
The licensing half is unchanged and recorded in §2.2a: the InsightFace grant is
research-only, this is a private repository and a self-installed build, and
these files come back out before anything is published. The weights are still
not a cargo build input — dr-face has no `models/` directory and no
`embedded-model` feature, and nothing in the build reads them. The APK assembly
step copies two files and is the only thing in the tree that knows they exist.
Verified on device: both models unpack on first launch (2524817 and 13616095
bytes) and the APK carries them at assets/models/.
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The grid now zooms, which needs thumbnails at two resolutions rather than
one, and exposed a scrub that landed in the wrong place.
**Two thumbnail size classes.** `ThumbSize::Grid` (256px, ~10 KB) and
`Large` (1024px, ~45 KB), with the class part of the store key so both
coexist. Storing everything large would take the reference library from
~200 MB to ~860 MB, and shards sync, so that is transfer cost on every
device rather than only disk. A store written before the class existed
migrates in place: its entries are all grid-sized, which is what the
column defaults to, so nothing already fetched is discarded.
`forget` now drops every size for an image. Reading a single row left the
other class's bytes on the shard's tally for good, sealing it early on
space nothing occupied.
**Grid zoom.** Ctrl+wheel and pinch resize cells between 90px and 420px in
geometric steps, so the gesture feels the same at either end where a fixed
pixel step would be imperceptible at 400px and violent at 90px. Crossing
256px switches to the large class, so a zoomed cell is sharp rather than
upscaled. Columns and window capacity already derived from cell size, so
the grid reflows for free.
**The scrub landed about half a library too high.** It counted only dated
images while the grid shows all of them — 10,733 dated against 19,841
rows — and ignored `shadowed_by`. Verified against the live catalog: the
old formula gave 10,887, the new one 10,732, the true grid position
10,732. The scrub's count and the grid's window must use identical
predicates and ordering; a test now fails if they diverge.
**Timeline gestures are continuous.** Scrub and pan were quantised to
whole buckets, so a slow drag did nothing until it crossed a boundary and
then jumped a month. Both work in fractions of the visible span now, and
pinch-to-zoom arrives for tablet, where there is no wheel to reach the
axis with.
The pinch accumulator was wrong on first writing: it took at most one step
per update, so an 8x spread — three doublings — yielded one zoom level.
`log2().trunc()` now extracts every whole doubling and carries the
remainder. The original test asserted the wrong number and defended it in
a comment, which is worth remembering: a test can entrench a bug as
readily as catch one.
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Two breaks that only appeared on a full `cargo test --workspace`.
`slint::android` exists only when compiling for Android, so darkroom-android
failed to compile on the host even though it is a workspace member. The entry
point is now gated on the target rather than on a feature.
The timeline forwarded `scrub` where the Timeline component declares
`scrub-to`, which the Slint compiler rejects.
Assisted-by: LLM
Cap both halves of the container build: CARGO_BUILD_JOBS limits how many
rustc processes cargo starts, while --cpus limits what the container gets
regardless of what nested build scripts spawn — cc, cmake, and ring's asm
build all parallelise on their own account and do not consult cargo. Without
both, a full cross-compile takes every thread on the host and makes the
machine unusable for the length of a background build.
Assisted-by: LLM
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