The shells still carried Capacitor's placeholder icon and splash, the blue
X on a grid. They now show the white TREK mark on a dark, slightly glassy
tile: a soft light from the top left and a sheen over the upper half, in
the app's launch colour #09090b. Android 12+ draws its launch screen on the
same colour instead of light grey.
scripts/generate-app-icons.mjs renders the sources into assets/ from
public/icons/icon-white.svg, and `npm run icons:app` turns them into every
size both platforms ask for through @capacitor/assets. The Android
foreground mark is sized for the adaptive icon's round mask.
The home screen label is TREK: the old "TREK - Plan your trips!" was cut
off under the icon, and the longer title belongs to the store listings.
Capacitor injects its bridge on Android only into the server's origin once
server.url is set, so the local error page it switches to when the server
does not load had no bridge. It could neither retry nor change the server
and stayed blank.
TrekWebViewClient now catches a failed page load (a network error, or a 5xx
from a proxy while TREK restarts) and the app starts over on the bundled
address screen, where the bridge is present and the screen offers exactly
those two choices. The server config no longer carries errorPath.
Two traps on the way, both found in the emulator: a restart during launch
has to be a fresh task, since recreate() leaves the system splash lying over
the new page; and a restart shows no launch splash at all, because the
splash plugin cannot take it down again when the page hides it early.
The UI asks for no overscroll effect with overscroll-behavior: none on html,
and Chrome honours it. The Android WebView draws the stretch on its root
scroller natively, though, and it scales the whole view, so the top bar and
the bottom dock were pulled along with the page. Found in the emulator.
- A short haptic tap on success, warning and error toasts, which is where
every save and delete already reports. Info toasts stay silent.
- No "‹ › Done" strip above the iOS keyboard.
- No Safari preview when a link is long-pressed.
- The swipe from the left edge goes back on iOS, through the same history
Android's back button walks.
The apps ship only an address screen now. Once a server is picked, the
native side points the WebView at it: TrekBridgeViewController on iOS and a
config copy with server.url on Android. The UI then comes from that server,
in the version it runs and on its own origin, so the session cookie,
uploads, /ws and plugins work exactly as in a browser and no app release
has to keep pace with the servers out there.
The address screen (native-shell/, built into native-dist/) probes
/api/health/features through native HTTP, tries https before http when no
scheme was typed, and refuses servers without the nativeApp flag. It also
serves as the error page when the remembered server does not load: retry,
change server, or on iOS the stored copy of the server's start page.
TrekShell is the app's own plugin for all of that: remember, change and
reload the server, sign in through ASWebAuthenticationSession or a Custom
Tab, and on iOS keep and open the offline copy of the start page, because
WKWebView runs no service worker for a domain the app does not list.
Plugins the frame does not use are gone (push, camera, geolocation,
calendar, file transfer, in-app browser and more): the WebView covers the
camera and location itself, and push needs a relay before it is worth
shipping. With them go the push entitlement, the calendar usage strings
and the Firebase bits. The iOS scheme falls back to capacitor://, since
Capacitor drops an iosScheme of https, and the arm64 capability replaces
armv7.
Maurice