Widgets followed the dashboard's trip only, which is the one under way, so a
packing list or to-dos for a trip still being planned could not sit on the
home screen. The trip, today, bookings, to-dos, packing and group widgets now
take a trip in Edit Widget (an AppIntent with the trips running or ahead,
Automatic by default, which keeps following the dashboard); the world map
needs none.
- The app writes a snapshot per trip running or ahead (at most six, the
dashboard's order) and the list to pick from, under their own keys
(feature widgetTrips, so an older binary never mistakes one for the
dashboard's); bags, chat and polls are kept ten minutes, covers per trip
- The widget extension targets iOS 17, which configurable widgets need; the
apps are not released, so no installed widget goes away
- The choices and their texts in the 28 languages of the gallery
- Packing: a ring of what is in the bags, each bag against its weight limit,
the items still missing in their bag's colour, a nudge when departure is
two days or less away
- World map: the world as dots from the Atlas country shapes
(WorldGrid.swift, generated by WidgetPreviews/make-world-grid.py), the
visited countries glowing, the latest one ringed, continents as bars and
the latest countries with their flags; it needs no trip
- Travel group: who comes along as avatars, the latest chat messages as
bubbles and the open poll with its votes as bars
- The to-dos widget is about to-dos only; the packing ring moved out
The app sends the bags, the Atlas countries (an hour's cache) and the chat
and poll with the snapshot; all optional, as before.
- Names and descriptions of the four widgets in TREKWidgets/<lang>.lproj for
the 28 languages the app speaks, linted with the other property lists
- The preview renderer draws a cover photo state too, and the lock-screen
accessories as the system does, without a box of their own
- The large trip and today widgets put the stops right under the day and the
next booking at their foot instead of an empty middle; the large to-dos
widget names its two rings with their counts
- The trip and day for a travel day as a Live Activity: a progress ring, the
next stop large, the stops as segments, the Dynamic Island in the same green
- The place shows with a location arrow, and rows link through RowLink, which
the preview renderer draws without the Link it cannot render
Four widgets instead of one plain text block, drawn in the phone tokens
(warm paper by day, near black by night) with contour lines and a route arc
as the travel motif:
- Trip (small, medium, large, lock screen): the cover photo, a countdown ring
and a plane on its arc before the trip; the day of the trip as segments,
the weather and the next stops on frosted glass while it runs
- Today (medium, large): the day as a timeline in its category colours, with
a now line, the day's progress and the weather
- Bookings (small, medium, large, lock screen): flights, trains, hotels and
tables ahead as coloured tiles, the next one featured, status dots
- To-dos (small, medium, large, lock screen): to-dos and packing as nested
rings, the most pressing open to-dos with priority and due dates
The app now sends the destination, a small cover JPEG, the weather where the
trip is, the bookings ahead, the open to-dos and the packing count; every
new field is optional on both sides, so older binaries and servers keep
working. Timelines step every quarter hour so the now line moves without
the app. client/ios/WidgetPreviews renders every widget in every size, light
and dark, on the CI's Mac, uploaded as the widget-previews artifact.
Connecting the app to a server as someone not signed in there showed
"Server not reachable" with the server up. The UI's first API call answered
401, the client redirected with a full page load while the first page was
still loading, WebKit cancelled that load (-999), and Capacitor answers every
failed navigation, a replaced one included, with its error page: the shell's
unreachable screen.
The client now waits for the first page to finish loading before such a
redirect inside the apps, which helps the binaries already out; and the iOS
shell puts a small navigation delegate in front of Capacitor's that lets a
cancelled or interrupted navigation pass without the error page.
A WidgetKit extension (TREKWidgets) with two parts: the next trip on the home
screen, with a countdown before it starts and today's day and next stops
while it runs, and a Live Activity for the travel day on the lock screen and
in the Dynamic Island showing the next timed stop and the day's progress.
The web app builds both from the trips stored offline on the device
(native/widgets.ts) and hands them over through TrekShell
(setWidgetSnapshot, syncTripDay, endTripDay). The texts are already
translated, so the widget needs no localisation of its own. The snapshot
lives in the keychain group the app shares with its extensions, so no App
Group is needed. Taps open com.liketrek.trek://navigate/<path>.
NativeWidgetsSync refreshes on start, on returning to the foreground and every
quarter hour. Both parts are gated behind the widgets / liveActivity
capabilities, so older binaries and the PWA are unaffected.
The relay hands APNs the encrypted record with a placeholder text and
mutable-content set; the new Notification Service Extension opens it with
the device's Web Push keys from the shared keychain group (RFC 8291 on
CryptoKit) and shows the real title, text and link. Without the keys the
placeholder stays, so a notification arrives either way and nothing on the
way reads it.
The target came in through ios/scripts/add-extension.rb (kept, idempotent),
its App ID is registered, and the release lane signs every target with its
own App Store profile. Web Push payloads now stop at 2800 bytes so the
encrypted, base64-encoded record still fits Apple's 4 KB.
The app subscribes to Web Push like a browser, only the app makes the
subscription: it asks for permission, registers with APNs and keeps its own
P-256 key pair and auth secret in a keychain group a notification extension
can share. The endpoint is liketrek's relay for this device's token, so the
server encrypts exactly as for a browser and nobody on the way can read the
notification. The settings card, the test push, sign-in resync and the logout
teardown all take this path where the binary has nativePush; a tapped
notification opens the place it points at, also from a cold start.
The App ID has push enabled, the app carries the aps-environment and
keychain-group entitlements.
TREK now appears under "Open in" and in the share sheet for PDFs, calendar
entries, Wallet passes and mails (iOS document types, Android VIEW and SEND
filters). The native side reads the file (up to 15 MB) and hands it to the UI,
which asks which trip it belongs to, upcoming trips first, then opens that
trip's booking import with the file already chosen.
WKWebView asks for the location per server origin, under the server's name,
and again across launches. Binaries with the geolocation feature answer
navigator.geolocation from CoreLocation instead: one When-In-Use prompt as
the app, a stream that runs only while something listens, at the accuracy
the most demanding caller asked for. Every caller keeps the browser API.
A tap on the status bar now scrolls the list in the middle of the screen
back to the top, as in every iOS app.
A switch in the account settings, inside the app on a device that can unlock
that way (iOS LocalAuthentication, Android BiometricPrompt with the screen
lock as fallback). Turning it on asks once, so nobody locks themselves out.
With it on, TREK asks at launch and after half a minute in the background
before showing anything, and the app switcher shows a blurred cover (iOS) or
no snapshot (Android) instead of the screen. The setting stays on the
device, not the account.
WKWebView runs no service worker for a self-hosted server, so on iOS nothing
kept a map tile once it scrolled away. Binaries with the tileCache feature
answer a trek-tile:// scheme from a store on disk: a tile viewed once is
served from there for up to 30 days (Mapbox's limit for a device cache,
applied to every provider), then fetched anew; the store keeps under 250 MB,
dropping the least recently used tiles first, sends a unique app User-Agent,
and never prefetches. Mapbox's own resources (style, tiles, glyphs, sprites)
and Leaflet's raster tiles go through it, telemetry never does.
Offline, a Mapbox map in such an app now stays Mapbox where it was viewed,
and the pill offers the stored trip region instead. The offline settings
show what the store takes against its limit, with a way to empty it.
WebKit's swipe from the left edge slid away a screenshot of the whole page,
closed no sheet and took every drag near the edge from the UI. Binaries from
this one turn it off and report an edgeBack feature, and the UI draws its own:
the page follows the finger, a release past a third or a flick slides it off
and goes back, anything else springs it home, with a light detent.
Open sheets now register in one overlay stack, so a way back closes the one on
top first, through its own close path (unsaved changes still ask): the edge
swipe on iOS and Android's back gesture alike.
The UI ships with the server and the binary through the stores, so the two
drift. TrekShell.getCapabilities now reports the binary's shell API, version
and native features by name (iOS and Android), and the UI turns each native
feature on only where the binary has it; a binary from before the handshake
counts as shell API 1 with none. The other way round, the server names the
oldest binary its UI works with (minNativeShellApi), and an app below it is
asked to update with a link to its store.
* chore(capacitor): base files for capacitor
* chore(capacitor): base plugins
* feat(auth): hand a browser sign-in over to the native app
The native apps show the server's own UI in a WebView, where neither SSO nor
passkeys can run. They sign in through the system browser instead and need a
way to carry that session back.
The app keeps a random verifier and sends only its sha256 into the browser.
Once signed in there, the browser trades that challenge for a one-time code
(cookie session only, so an API or MCP token cannot mint itself a browser
session), and the WebView redeems the code together with the verifier. The
code rides through a URL scheme any app could claim, so on its own it is
worthless; it is single use and good for a minute.
Also: /api/health/features reports nativeApp so the apps can refuse servers
that predate this, and hashed files under assets/ are served immutable,
which the iOS app needs to start offline without a service worker.
* feat(native): the apps load the server's own UI
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.
* feat(native): the UI knows when it runs inside the app
Everything the server's UI does differently inside the iOS and Android app
lives under src/native and is inert in a browser.
Sign-in: SSO and the passkey button go through the system browser
(signInThroughBrowser), because identity providers refuse embedded
browsers and WebAuthn needs a domain association no build can have for
every server. The browser end is the new /native-handoff page: it signs
the user in if needed and hands the session over only after an explicit
tap, so a link carrying somebody else's challenge cannot pass a session
on silently. The verifier is hashed with @noble/hashes because
crypto.subtle is missing on the plain-http servers many home networks
use. An OIDC-only install no longer bounces to the IdP inside the
WebView, and passkey management is hidden in the app.
Downloads: the WebView cannot save a blob, so downloadBlob, downloadFile
and openFile write to the app cache and open the share sheet. The eight
places that built their own download anchor now use downloadBlob, which
they should have anyway.
The rest: "Change server" on the login page and in the account settings,
the splash hides after the first frame, Android's back button walks
history before it leaves the app, the status bar follows the scheme, and
on iOS the start page is refreshed and every chunk of the build (listed
in the new asset-manifest.json) is pulled into WebKit's cache so the app
can start without network.
* ci(native): build the Android and iOS shells on every change to them
Compiles the Swift side on a macOS runner so nobody needs a Mac to know it
still builds, and leaves a debug APK on every run to install on a phone.
Unsigned: signing and store uploads need secrets fork PRs do not get.
* feat(native): offline vector maps in the iOS app
In a browser the service worker answers MapLibre from the gl-map-offline
cache that glPrefetcher fills for trips marked for offline. The iOS app has
no service worker, so nothing read that cache there and the map went blank
without network.
A trek-offline:// protocol takes the service worker's place. Inside the iOS
app the MapLibre style URL is rewritten to it, the handler rewrites every
https URL inside the style and its TileJSON the same way, and then serves
documents network first and tiles, glyphs and sprites cache first. Outside
the iOS app nothing changes. The default OpenFreeMap basemap is covered;
Mapbox GL has no protocol hook and stays online-only in the app, as does a
custom raster template, whose opaque responses only a service worker can
store.
* fix(native): keep the iOS offline copy inside the app
loadSimulatedRequest went to the server URL without its trailing slash, and
Capacitor keeps a navigation in the WebView only when it starts with the
bridge's serverURL, slash included. The offline start page would have
opened in Safari instead. Also covers the platform helpers and the
hand-off API module.
* feat(native): the small things that give a WebView away
- 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.
* test(mobile): the backup-code download revokes its URL after the shared delay
The mobile twin of the AccountTab test still expected the object URL to be
revoked in the same tick. Since both screens download through downloadBlob,
the revoke happens after its 100 ms grace period.
* fix(native): remember the login by default inside the app
With the switch off the app got a session cookie, which dies with the app
process, so every time the phone unloaded TREK the user had to sign in
again. Found while running the Android build in the emulator.
* fix(native): no overscroll stretch on Android
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.
* fix(native): Android shows "server not reachable" instead of a blank page
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.
* feat(native): TREK's own app icon and launch screen, named just TREK
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.
* fix(native): new lint warnings and the MapLibre protocol type after the dev merge
Awaits that sat in loops in the native-auth tests run together, the hand-off hook marks its navigations as ignored, the native tests drop their non-null assertions, and the offline protocol answers with the data type MapLibre 6.15 expects.
* fix(native): strict types in the address screen, Prettier on the native-auth e2e suite, file-local exports
The address screen's element helper returns the plain element instead of Object.assign's intersection, which strict mode could not represent; the haptics test reads an optional argument as optional; three exports only their own file used are local now.
* fix(native): Prettier on the native client files, rate-limit e2e requests in sequence
Formats the files the client formatting gate listed, and NATIVE-E2E-005 sends its twenty exchange attempts one after another: all at once they reset the test server's connections.
* fix(native): hide passkeys in the app through usePasskeys
The flag in useAccountSettings grew the identical destructuring in both account views past the duplication threshold; the shared passkeys hook already decides when its card is hidden, so the app check lives there now.
* feat(native): everything the App Store and Google Play submissions need
- iOS: microphone usage text for "Take Video", no-export-compliance flag,
ExportOptions.plist for App Store Connect uploads, the unused push
forwarders gone; CI builds with Xcode 26 and lints the property lists.
- Android: version and signing from Gradle properties (unsigned without
them), R8 with keep rules for TREK's and Capacitor's reflective classes,
no Auto Backup of the session cookie, no external file provider path,
template and Firebase leftovers removed, keystores and service accounts
ignored, full-size adaptive icon layers with a monochrome layer; CI also
builds the release APK.
- native-release.yml: signed bundle to a Play testing track and archive to
TestFlight, by hand or on a v* tag, behind the store environment.
- Version handshake: the server reports nativeApi 1, the app refuses a
server below its minimum and tolerates an app older than the offline copy.
- Address screen: privacy policy link, "Try the demo" and "What is a TREK
server?"; the privacy link also in the app's server settings. Three new
native strings in all 27 locales.
- Donation links and the notices asking for one are hidden in the app.
- Store listings for "TREK Travel Planner" in client/fastlane: texts, review
notes with placeholders, privacy and account deletion page drafts, the
feature graphic and icon, a length and image check in CI, and a Playwright
store project with the scripts that turn its captures into screenshots.
- Docs: wiki/Native-Apps.md, README no longer says there is no store app.
* fix(native): read a notice button's href without a weak type
An action button carries no href, so a parameter typed as only an optional href refused the notice DTO; the button type now names its kind as well.
* feat(native): a welcoming onboarding for the address screen
The app's own screen now opens on a welcome: the TREK mark, a line about what
TREK is, and two clear paths — connect the TREK you already open in the browser,
or get TREK Cloud. Both lead to polished screens: the address field with live
validation, a shake and haptic on a bad address and a success tick before the
server takes over; and a TREK Cloud intro with what it offers and a way in.
Screens slide and stagger in, buttons give a tap, and it all respects the safe
areas, light and dark, and reduced motion. Self-hosters are unaffected: cloud is
its own path, never in the way. New native strings are added across all locales
(English placeholders outside en/de, to translate).
* feat(native): a plan picker for TREK Cloud, with live prices
The Get TREK Cloud path now leads to a plan picker that reads the live plans
from the site (/api/plans), so the prices and quotas always match the website.
Monthly and yearly in a segmented toggle, the year marked with its saving, each
plan a card with its price and what it includes. Subscribe is wired to finish on
the web order for now; it becomes an Apple/Google in-app purchase once the store
products exist. New strings across all locales (en and de translated).
* feat(native): light status bar and a Go key on the address screen
The address screen sits on the near-black surface, so set the status bar to draw
its clock and icons in light while it is up; the server's own UI takes over the
style once it loads. The address field's on-screen return key now reads Go. Both
fail quietly where there is no native status bar (web, the simulator).
* i18n(native): translate the onboarding into es, fr, it, nl and pl
The welcome, TREK Cloud and plan-picker strings were English placeholders in
every locale but en and de. The five largest remaining European languages are
now translated in full; the others still carry the English text and are a
follow-up for native speakers.
* feat(native): the in-app TREK Cloud subscription flow
After picking a plan, the app now carries the whole purchase itself when the build
can take one: choose your address (checked for free as you type, against the same
endpoint the website uses), your email, and subscribe. The receipt goes to
/api/iap/redeem, and a Setting up your TREK screen waits on the new address and
loads it the moment it answers.
The purchase sits behind an IapClient seam (src/native/iap.ts): a fake drives the
whole flow in development and preview, the native client reports itself
unavailable until the store plugin and products exist, and until then the plan
picker still finishes on the web, so nothing half-wired faces a customer. New
claim and provisioning strings across all locales (en, de and the five largest
European languages translated).
* i18n(native): translate the app into the remaining 20 languages
The onboarding, plan picker, claim and provisioning strings were English
placeholders outside en, de and the five largest European languages. They are
now translated in full across the other 20 locales (ar, az, br, ca, cs, et, gr,
hu, id, ja, ko, ru, sk, sv, th, tr, uk, vi, zh, zh-TW), placeholders and brand
kept. The app now speaks every language TREK does.
* fix(i18n): add the Hebrew native strings, and correct the LoginPage size baseline
The he locale had every domain but native.ts, which broke i18n parity, the shared
coverage specs and the client parity test once the native strings existed. Add
he/native.ts with all native keys translated. Also correct the LoginPage size
baseline to its current line count.
* i18n(native): excuse the TREK Cloud brand, mark Email same-as-en, exempt the quota counts
The strict i18n checks, which the feature-branch CI does not run, catch three
things now that the native strings exist in every locale: TREK Cloud read as an
untranslated English phrase (it is a product name, like Vacay and Atlas, so add
it to the brand list); Email left identical in Italian, Indonesian and
Vietnamese, where it is the local word too (mark same-as-en) and in Greek (give
it a Greek term); and the GB and AI-document quota strings carrying {n} without
being plural groups (both are figures that never show a singular, like the other
unit-symbol counts in NOT_PLURAL).
* fix(native): typecheck, lint and knip on the native code; wire he's native bundle
The full suite, which the feature-branch CI does not run, catches four things the
native work still had: a non-narrowed union in the claim flow (tsc), a helper
named useFake that the react-hooks rule read as a hook (eslint), two iap types
exported but used only inside the file (knip), and the Hebrew native strings
present as a file but never spread into he's merged bundle (the aggregated key
parity test). All four fixed.
* fix(native): a flat redeem result, so the claim flow typechecks
The discriminated union did not narrow under the native-shell tsconfig, so the
failure code read as absent on the whole type. Use a flat result with optional
instanceUrl and code instead: both are always present on the type, no narrowing
needed, and the ok plus instanceUrl guard still routes success from refusal.
* style: prettier-format the native and i18n changes
The feature-branch CI does not run the formatting check, so the conflict-resolved
files (AboutTab, useAccountSettings, useTripExport), the native shell and iap
module, and the i18n files touched by the translation scripts were never run
through Prettier. Format them all; no behaviour changes.
* chore(native): re-trigger CI on the formatted tree
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Co-authored-by: Maurice <mauriceboe@icloud.com>
Maurice