FR-PLAT-AND-6 asks for two things this app did neither of: be a receiver for image view and share intents, and share exported results out through a FileProvider. The manifest declared one activity with one MAIN/LAUNCHER filter, so nothing on the device ever offered DarkRoom for a photograph, and there was no route out at all — Android has refused file:// URIs between apps since API 24, and a content:// URI needs a provider to be behind it. Inbound. Three filters now: VIEW for a gallery or a file manager, SEND and SEND_MULTIPLE for the share sheet, all on image/*. `android_main` reads the launch Intent before it gives `app` away to Slint, and what comes back is passed to `dr_ui::run` exactly as argv is on the desktop — `startup_action` already treats a non-empty list as "the user asked for these specifically", which is what a share is. The URIs are copied into the cache before the viewer opens, and that cost is real: a shared raw file is written once, in full, on the startup path. A content:// URI is a handle into another app's provider, not a path, and the decoders take paths; the alternative is teaching the whole read path about URIs, which is FR-PLAT-AND-1's SAF connector and is not built. Outbound. ExportProvider serves one directory — getFilesDir(), which is the same path `internal_data_path` gives the Rust side — and refuses everything else by canonicalising the request and checking it is inside that root, so `../` and a planted symlink fail the same test. Not AndroidX's FileProvider, because AndroidX is a Maven artefact and this build has no resolver; what it does is a hundred lines and they are here. The share half has no caller. The provider, the URI grant and the chooser are all in place, but the control that would invoke them belongs in `ui/dr-ui`, and wiring it needs an `AndroidApp` the interface can reach. It is documented as unwired and deliberately not tagged as covering the requirement. `launchMode="singleTask"` comes with the filters and is not decoration: another app can now launch this activity while it is running, and the default mode answers that by creating a second NativeActivity in the same process — a second android_main, a second Slint backend, a second wgpu device. The cost of the fix is stated in the manifest: a share arriving while DarkRoom is already open brings it forward without opening the image, because onNewIntent has no route through android-activity's event stream. The Java is Java because Android constructs it: a ContentProvider is instantiated by the system from its manifest entry, and getIntent() exists only on an activity object. Both directions live there rather than in JNI so that what crosses the boundary is two method signatures instead of forty, each of which is a string checked at run time and nowhere else. What a test can hold: the declarations. Nothing about an Intent or a ContentProvider is reachable from `cargo test`, but an intent filter that is deleted takes the app out of every "open with" menu silently, and an authority that stops matching its class raises a SecurityException inside somebody else's app. The tests in lib.rs read the manifest and ExportProvider.java through `include_str!` and hold both to that, on the host, which is the only place in the workspace that looks at either file from Rust. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
DarkRoom
A cross-platform, non-destructive RAW photo editor for Linux and Android.
Status: 0.9.0, and no longer a spike. A library opens, culls, develops and exports on both platforms, across eight tagged releases. What is not built is written down rather than merely absent — see docs/outstanding.md for the requirements that have no implementation and why, and docs/technical-debt.md for the compromises that were chosen.
Documentation
| Document | Contents |
|---|---|
| CONTRIBUTING.md | How to land a first change without reading the rest |
| requirements.md | What the software must do — 179 numbered requirements |
| architecture.md | How it is built — crates, GPU pipeline, data model, sync |
| technical-debt.md | Compromises taken deliberately, each with the condition that retires it |
| outstanding.md | What is not built, and whether that is a decision or a gap |
| code-health.md | What a contribution costs, per seam, measured |
| traceability.md | Generated: which requirement is claimed by which file |
| faces.md | Face detection and identity — the models, the licence problem, and what S14 measured |
Building
Desktop:
cargo run -p darkroom-desktop
Android (containerised toolchain, see docker/android):
./docker/android/build.sh cargo ndk -t arm64-v8a build --release
Git LFS is required for the model weights, and the toolchain pins itself. CONTRIBUTING.md has the details and the four commands CI will run against what you send.
Current state
Working. A catalog over a local folder, a Nextcloud account, or a folder a
sync client keeps in virtual-files mode — where a placeholder is treated as the
photograph rather than as a one-byte file. A virtualised library grid with a
capture-time timeline, ratings, labels, keywords, collections and a trash that
survives a crash mid-operation. Card ingest. Face detection and identity, with
the index syncing between devices. A develop pipeline of fifteen declared
operations fused into a single compute dispatch, plus the neighbourhood
operations that cannot be — clarity, texture, capture sharpening, noise
reduction, lens correction, spectral film simulation. Crop, straighten, spot
removal, gradient and subject-segmentation masks, named presets, and a
generated panel that no operation in ui/ is allowed to name. Export to JPEG,
PNG and 8- or 16-bit TIFF with resize and output sharpening.
The zero-copy display path works on desktop. The compute pass writes a texture that Slint composites directly, which is what ARCH §6.1 requires; the readback it forbids costs 96% of frame time at 4K, and
cargo run -p dr-gpu --example bench --features readback
still reproduces that measurement. The one exception is the Android develop view, which reads the frame back through the CPU because zero-copy there needs wgpu's Vulkan swapchain, and that tears a portrait window on a tablet whose panel is mounted landscape. It is debt, not a revision of the rule: the reasoning, the on-device measurements that forced it, and the three separate things any one of which would remove it are in technical-debt.md TD-1.
Not built. Plugins, compare and survey culling, focus peaking, burst grouping, AI denoise, tiled and progressive rendering, and most of the Android platform integration beyond running. The performance targets in §4.1 are unverified rather than unmet — the per-commit benchmark suite §8 requires does not exist, so nothing fails a build on a regression. docs/outstanding.md is the list, with the reasoning.
Licence
GPL-3.0-or-later.