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SoftwareApp 1f94d0a38a Add a macrobenchmark module, and find out what the build was hiding
docs/PERFORMANCE.md has been honest that three of its four numbers do not exist. They exist now as
measurements, if not yet as results: benchmark/ is a macrobenchmark module with four tests - cold start
with StartupTimingMetric, then opening, scrolling and searching a folder of a thousand files with
FrameTimingMetric - sharing a fixture at /sdcard/AABenchmark that is created once per run and deleted in
@AfterClass. Frames rather than a named trace section on purpose: what a user calls slow is jank on
screen, and the alternative puts benchmarking calls into production code for the sake of a number.
CompilationMode.None() is the honest cold-install baseline; Partial() plus a baseline profile is the
follow-up and needs the same module. The storage grant is applied with appops in setup, which is what
lets the run be unattended - a permission dialog is the one thing a test cannot answer.

Three build facts had to be discovered rather than designed, and each is now written where it will be
read. The app under test cannot keep its own package id: it needs a debug signature to install on a test
device, so it cannot replace a release install, and an un-suffixed build is exactly that. It also cannot
use the obvious suffix: `.benchmark` is already the benchmark module's own APK id, and the test APK then
fails to install with INSTALL_FAILED_VERSION_DOWNGRADE - which is what the first attempt did. Hence
`.perf`. And `testBuildType = "benchmark"` cannot be set unconditionally, because it makes benchmark the
variant that *unit* tests run against and :app:testDebugUnitTest - the task the entire gate is built on -
stops existing; it is behind -PbenchmarkBuild instead. All three were measured, not guessed, and the
third would have broken CI silently.

Two smaller things came with it. tools/verify.sh --release now also compiles the app's benchmark variant
and the test APK, because build wiring nobody runs is wiring that rots; no device is involved. And the
code map grew an EXTRA_ROOTS section so it indexes benchmark/ too - a map that silently omits a module
lies by omission, which is worse than the one line it costs.

The numbers themselves are still missing, and for a device reason rather than a code one: installing the
new package id on this MIUI phone fails with INSTALL_FAILED_USER_RESTRICTED (the "Install via USB" gate,
which wants a human and answered too late). Both APKs are pushed to /sdcard/Download/ for a manual
install, and the run is one command away:
`adb shell am instrument -w -e class de.softwareapp_hb.filemanager.benchmark.BrowserBenchmark de.softwareapp_hb.filemanager.benchmark/androidx.test.runner.AndroidJUnitRunner`.

Gate green with --release, including the new compile step; map current; 386 tests unchanged.
2026-10-17 09:45:36 +02:00
SoftwareApp 0bbee25ab3 Test the interface as a user sees it, and let a debug build tell on itself
Fifteen rendering tests across four files are the first tests in this project that compose a screen,
and they cover the claims that used to be prose only: the app bar's star exists where there is a folder
to star and says Add or Remove according to the state, the selection bar offers Rename to several files
and Details only to one, the batch dialog spells out the names it will produce and refuses a collision
with the file named, the shared name dialog refuses a slash while it is typed, and a favourite that has
gone says "Folder not found" rather than showing a path that is not there. They run on the JVM through
Robolectric - the Compose test artifacts plus the test manifest - so they belong to the same verify.sh
gate as everything else instead of needing a device: 386 tests in total.

Writing them turned up one behaviour worth recording. The batch dialog continues the folder's series by
default, so a collision cannot be shown unless the start number is forced back to 1 - which is precisely
why the feature works in practice, and now also why two of these tests set the field explicitly.

The debug build now enables StrictMode (disk reads and writes, network, leaked closables; logged, not
fatal) and attaches LeakCanary. A file manager is the worst possible app for a blocking disk read on the
main thread, and a debug build is the last place where noticing it is still cheap. Logging rather than a
crash is deliberate: turning a slow screen into a crash on someone's phone is the worse trade. The flag
is read from the manifest, not from BuildConfig, which this build does not generate.

Performance has a number for the first time, and it immediately paid for itself. tools/measure-startup.sh
takes cold start with `am start -W` - median of several runs, one warm-up discarded because the first
launch after an install pays for dexopt - and docs/PERFORMANCE.md records 1814 ms over five runs, in the
debug build, which is the slow case by construction. StrictMode's first run then produced five violations
against that number: 492 ms resolving `app.cacheDir` inside the view-model factory, 397 ms reading free
space with StatFs for every volume inside refresh(), 477 ms of the platform loading its own typefaces,
and two 54 ms OEM font hooks. That is about 1.5 s of main-thread disk I/O in a 1.8 s start, of which
~0.9 s is ours and mechanical to move. Neither of ours is fixed here on purpose: the numbers and the two
fixes are recorded in PERFORMANCE.md, and they are the first items of the speed work.

What is not measured is stated in the same file rather than left to be assumed: folder open at 1 000 /
5 000 / 20 000 files, thumbnail paint while scrolling, and keystroke-to-result all need a `:benchmark`
module and a profileable build under the release package id, and this device waits for a confirmation
dialog on the first install of a new package id. The module is deliberately absent instead of
half-configured: build wiring nobody can run is worse than a recorded gap.

Gate green (map current, detekt, 386 tests, lint), and CHANGELOG, README, AGENTS.md, ROADMAP,
PERFORMANCE.md, EDGE_CASE_TESTING and the regenerated map carry it.
2026-10-17 09:23:11 +02:00
SoftwareApp b1bc805af0 Make the gate one command, and add static analysis behind a baseline
Everything this repository promised was voluntary until now: 371 tests, lint and the generated code
map ran only if whoever changed the code remembered to run them. tools/verify.sh is that gate as one
command - the map check, detekt, the unit tests and lint, cheapest first so a stale document fails in
a second rather than after a release build - and --release adds the R8 build. The ordering is not
cosmetic: the two cheapest checks are also the two that catch drift nothing else can see.

The same script runs in three places: CI on every push and pull request, a nightly --release job (R8
is the one check nothing else performs, and it has hidden a real defect here once), and a pre-push
hook once the clone has been told to use .githooks. The nightly also uploads the R8 mapping, which is
what turns a release stack trace back into a line of Kotlin and is only worth keeping if it belongs
to the build that shipped.

Detekt is adopted with a baseline, which is the entire adoption strategy: everything it finds today
is frozen in config/detekt/baseline.xml, so the gate fails on a new finding rather than on a backlog
nobody is going to clear this week. Entries are keyed by rule, file and enclosing declaration, so a
new long function is still reported inside a file that already has one - proved by writing a TODO
into a file, watching the build fail on that exact line, and taking it out again. What it found
first agrees with the churn numbers from the last pass: ArchiveEngine 16 findings, BrowserViewModel
11, SelectionBar 9, 86 in total over 13 rules, the largest groups being the complexity ones this was
added for (cyclomatic complexity 10, nested block depth 7, too many functions 4, long methods 3, two
classes over 700 lines) plus 30 over-long lines.

Three findings were fixed rather than parked, because they were real: dead `menuOpen` state left in
BrowserScreen when the overflow menu moved into BrowserTopBar, a missing trailing newline, and two
`db` parameters that are the platform's signature rather than an oversight (suppressed with that
reason written next to them). Four rules were configured rather than obeyed: PackageNaming, because
the applicationId's underscore is an identity this app cannot change; FunctionNaming, for @Composable
(PascalCase by convention) and for backticked test names, which is the project's specification style;
MagicNumber, because sizes and limits are named constants here; and MatchingDeclarationName, because
a file is named after its concept rather than after a declaration inside it.

Two tooling facts cost real time and are in neither tool's documentation. Detekt runs through its CLI
rather than its Gradle plugin: the plugin performs the analysis inside the build's own JVM, and
detekt 1.23 cannot parse JDK 25's version string - it fails with "25.0.4.1" as the entire error
message - so the task drives detekt-cli on a 21 launcher, which is also the only way to pin the JVM
the analyser runs on. And a baseline has to exist before it can be read, which is why it starts as an
empty document rather than being generated into place.

Verified: the fast gate is green in 17 seconds, --release adds a 36-second R8 build, 371 JVM tests
still pass, lint is clean and the map is current. CHANGELOG, README, AGENTS.md, ROADMAP (the gate is
now a recorded decision) and the regenerated map carry it.
2026-10-17 09:13:32 +02:00
SoftwareApp 0743bda29e Let a folder be starred, and put the starred ones on the home screen
The app bar of any folder now carries a star, and a starred folder appears in a Favourites section
on the home screen, above the libraries. Above, because it is the user's own list - and absent
entirely while empty, so someone opening the app for the first time still meets the libraries first,
which is the order they were given for a reason. The star in the row is the removal, which is what a
star means everywhere else: the mark that says "this is a favourite" is the thing you tap to stop it
being one. That avoids a long-press as well, and with it a destructive gesture nobody can see.

A favourite is a reference, not a copy: data/BookmarkStore keeps one path per row and nothing about
the folder's contents, so reading the whole list is one query and no filesystem work, which is what
makes it affordable on every visit to the home screen. It has its own SQLite database rather than a
table in the trash index - one table and three queries do not justify Room in a build that has no
annotation processor, and the two stores have nothing to say to each other. Two behaviours there are
decisions rather than defaults. A folder that has gone is kept and marked (Folder not found) instead
of being deleted: a card out of its slot and a folder deleted in another app are indistinguishable
from here, and silently forgetting someone's list because their SD card was out is the worse of the
two mistakes. And opening the row re-checks existence at that moment, because the flag is as old as
the screen - so the answer is a message rather than an empty listing, which would read as an empty
folder instead of a missing one.

Two smaller refusals came out of the same question. There is no star in a library or on the root
screen, because neither is a folder and there would be nothing to come back to: the distinction that
governs the new-folder button, and one the view model enforces too rather than trusting a stale
screen. And a bookmark has no undo, because Undo means "the last change to the filesystem the app
made" and a favourite is not one - the star is one tap to put back. The row's label comes from the
same place the breadcrumbs do, which is why a starred volume root reads as "Internal storage" rather
than as "0".

Sixteen tests: nine against real SQLite through Robolectric (round trip, ordering, starring twice
neither duplicating nor moving a row, and the same no-drop migration guard the trash index carries),
and seven through the view model (toggling, outliving the view model that added it, newest first,
the missing folder kept and marked, the missing folder refusing to open, and a library refusing to be
starred). 371 JVM tests, lint clean. Verified on the phone: the star appears only inside a folder and
flips from "Add to favourites" to "Remove from favourites" without leaving the screen; the home
screen lists the volume root above the libraries with its own label and its path underneath; the row
opens it with the star already filled; and the row's star takes the whole section away with a
snackbar. The documentation moved with it - CHANGELOG, ROADMAP (M15), README, COMPETITIVE_ANALYSIS
(that gap closes instead of joining the candidates), EDGE_CASE_TESTING, and the generated code map.
2026-10-17 07:48:26 +02:00
SoftwareApp ddae70a8bc Turn the project's rules into tests, and generate a map of where everything lives
The first question about any change is which file it belongs in, and the three documents that
kept being asked to answer it - README (the tour), ROADMAP (what is done) and CHANGELOG (why it is
like that) - were never going to. docs/CODE_MAP.md answers it: all 74 source files with the purpose
taken from the KDoc already sitting next to them, their size, and the tests that cover them,
followed by every test name in the suite. Those names are sentences about behaviour in this project
("a batch rename is a single undo step"), so the index doubles as the specification, and it is the
cheapest way for a reader, human or otherwise, to find out whether something is already covered.

The map is generated by tools/make-code-map.py rather than written, because a hand-maintained
description of 74 files is wrong within a milestone and nobody notices. The script harvests
declarations and comments; --check fails the moment the file stops matching the tree, and it caught
this very change (350 tests to 355); and the file says so about itself in its first line. A file is
described by the KDoc of the declaration that shares its name, which is the convention this
codebase already follows, and where no declaration matches, the first KDoc is used and the file is
listed at the end - so 15 fallbacks out of 74 are visible rather than assumed. Test files are
attached by the class they declare (NameTest -> Name.kt), which is a name-based match and therefore
approximate: the one honest weakness, and worth knowing before trusting a row that says a file has
no tests.

AGENTS.md is the one page that points at the map: what the app is, the two files to read before the
source, the exact commands, the layout with its dependency direction (ui -> domain -> data -> core,
with core free of Android), the rules that have tests behind them, what to read on demand and what
not to read at all, the definition of done, and the traps that have cost real time here - MIUI's two
install gates, assembleDebug racing an adb install, R8 stripping what only a resource names, and adb
input text not delivering a slash.

The same pass made four of the project's stated rules fail instead of merely being stated, in
ProjectInvariantsTest, which reads the source tree: core/ imports no Android (the engine stays
testable without Robolectric), no Text(...) in ui/ is handed a string literal (text comes from
strings.xml, which the pseudo-locale build exercises), the manifest requests exactly the six
permissions the app is built around and never INTERNET, and separator handling lives in core/ alone.
Three of the four were already true. The fourth found a bug: createFolder checked only that the name
was not empty, so "notes/final" was resolved by StoragePath into the notes folder that happened to
exist - the dialog offered one folder in the folder on screen and the app created a different one.
Rename refused the same input, because the rule has exactly one implementation and only one of its
two callers used it.

Both callers now go through isUsableName, and the shared name dialog says why a name is refused -
"A name cannot contain a slash", while it is typed, with its button disabled - rather than appearing
to do nothing when it is pressed. The batch dialog and both single-name dialogs read the same
string, so the rule reads the same wherever a name is entered. Verified on the phone: a slash typed
into New folder shows the note with Create the only disabled node in the dump, and deleting the
slash clears the note and re-enables it.

355 JVM tests (5 added: the four invariants and the folder-name refusal), lint clean, the map
current. The source-level rules state their own limits in their comments - the literal rule catches
a literal as the whole text of a Text(...) and not one concatenated into resource text, because
seeing that would take a Kotlin parser, and a rule that pretends otherwise is worse than one that
says where it stops.
2026-10-17 02:20:01 +02:00