A pass at the app's structure, for discussion - #82

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Commits on Aug 21, 2026

Added a navigation rail for tablets in landscape. A new layout-sw600dp-land variant of the main activity layout puts a NavigationRailView on the left edge, so wide screens spend horizontal space on…
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Merged the Decodes tab into the Monitor tab. The decode list is embedded in the Monitor screen through a FragmentContainerView, so its reply, copy, time-sync, and clear behavior carries over unchan…
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Added transmitted messages to the decode list. The decode list only showed what the decoder heard, and the engine never hears its own transmissions. The service now broadcasts ACTION_TX_SENT with t…
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Restyled the Monitor tab with Material components. The status card gets a header strip like the Transmit tab's queue card, a row of stat tiles for SNR, power, and TX offset, and Material exposed dr…
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Turned the decode list into a chat thread. Decodes flow newest at the bottom, received messages sit left in gray bubbles, and own transmissions sit right in blue with a TX tag, using the same bubbl…
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Redesigned the Messages tab as a texting app. The index lists the pinned Everything thread and one thread per DM contact. The Everything thread shows all band activity with a compose bar for CQ and…
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Added a Contacts tab, modeled on the desktop call activity list. Every decoded station lands in a persistent table with its SNR, offset, grid, and age, sorted starred first and then most recent. A …
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Added a reference doc for the Android emulator setup on this Mac. It records the manual SDK install that works around the sdkmanager zip corruption bug, the Fire HD 10 screen profile for the AVD, a…
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Renamed the Everything thread to All activity and wired its preview line. The preview slot existed but only showed the static subtitle. The Messages index now observes the decode feed and shows the…
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Added a station info field to contacts, separate from the user comment. An overheard INFO reply stores its text on the sender's contact, and the row shows it above the comment. The field is baked i…
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Fixed the frequency dropdown losing its entries after a tab switch. Switching tabs recreates the Monitor fragment, and the saved-state restore sets the dropdown text through the filtering setText. …
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Switched the Messages tab to the Material Symbols chat bubble.
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Documented the phone AVD and corrected the audio limits.
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Added CQ, heartbeat and All activity buttons to the decode header.
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Fixed the Monitor tab doing nothing after opening All activity.
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Replaced the Monitor status card with a compact status strip.
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Offered the audio device in Settings as well as on the Monitor strip.
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Gave the error state its own mark on the Monitor strip.
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Taught the directed-command parser the full JS8 command vocabulary. The parser took the command as a single whitespace token, so MSG TO: arrived as MSG with the destination glued to the payload, an…
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Stopped the callsign-prefix heuristic from corrupting continuation frames. The JNI rendered every unpacked data payload through maybe_insert_callsign_prefix, which rewrites text whose first two tok…
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Made the MSG reassembly timeout scale with the decode's submode. The buffer that collects a multi-frame MSG expired on a flat 60 seconds, but a Slow-mode transmission spaces its frames 30 seconds a…
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Added the store-and-forward mailbox tables and removed the destructive migration fallback. Held messages get their own mailbox_messages table rather than rows in messages, because a held message ha…
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Added a debug-only decode injection path for protocol testing. A broadcast to the debug receiver forwards synthetic decode text into the same handler chain a real decode takes, so multi-frame comma…
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Implemented the receive side of store-and-forward messaging. A MSG TO: deposit is reassembled across its data frames, checksum-checked, stored in the mailbox, and confirmed with an ACK. The ACK goe…
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