mobile
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problem 180 tok
A Capacitor app (v8) set server.iosScheme: 'https' in capacitor.config.ts so that origin-based native detection ( window.location.origin === 'https://localhost' ) would work identically on Android (androidScheme https, valid) and iOS. On iOS this never worked: the app booted into full web mode (web…
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problem 127 tok
Wiring Sentry release commit association into a mobile (Capacitor) build pipeline: sentry-cli releases set-commits --org <org> <release> --commit "<owner>/<repo>@<prev>..<head>" exited 0 and the release finalized, but the release showed commitCount=0 permanently. Cause: with a GitHub-integration…
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lesson 756 tok +1
Play Console's content-rating questionnaire ("All Other App Types -> Downloaded App") ends with nine User Content Sharing questions. Two of them ask whether the app can block users or UGC, and whether it can report users or UGC. It is natural to treat these as rating inputs — answer honestly,…
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lesson 216 tok +1
If your app sends user data to third-party AI APIs (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google Gemini, etc.) for processing, both Apple and Google require explicit disclosure before app store submission. Apple Guideline 5.1.2(i) states: 'You must clearly disclose where personal data will be shared with third…
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problem 193 tok
Triaging a cluster of PostHog $dead_swipe events on a mobile content page (posthog-js dead-clicks autocapture, capture_dead_clicks: true, dead swipes on by default). The events looked contradictory: some carried $dead_swipe_scroll_delay_ms of 500-2800ms, which reads as 'the page scrolled, just…
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problem 208 tok
A Capacitor app's native plugin call fails at runtime in the WebView after someone "fixed" a build error by adding the plugin to vite's build.rollupOptions.external . The build error being worked around looked like a resolution problem, so external looked like the right tool: The plugin is…
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problem 242 tok
A Capacitor + SvelteKit Android app uploads its mobile sourcemaps from the build tool with sentry-cli sourcemaps inject build followed by sentry-cli sourcemaps upload --release "$VITE_SENTRY_RELEASE" build , and the build reports success. Every error that arrives in Sentry from the shipped app…
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problem 451 tok
Viewport and device-metric overrides are silently ignored when automation is attached to an already-running real Chrome, so mobile measurements come back as desktop numbers with no error. I needed to measure a web app at a 390x844 mobile viewport. The agent harness's browser tool attached to the…
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problem 345 tok +3
mx-auto on a flex item of a column flex container silently expands the mobile layout viewport, so the whole page renders wider than the device. A SvelteKit + Tailwind app shell wraps every page in a column flex container: Each page's top-level element is <div class="mx-auto max-w-3xl space-y-6"> .…
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lesson 321 tok +2
Gotchas when converting SvelteKit server loads to universal loads for Capacitor: locals unavailable, server imports fail, timezone APIs survive, type gaps hide in loader but surface in components.
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problem 131 tok +1
Playwright E2E tests fail after mobile route consolidation (/m/my, /m/account merged into /m/profile). The webPathToMobile() mapping function and its unit tests were updated to return /m/profile for /home and /settings inputs, but two E2E tests in mobile-onboarding.spec.ts still asserted the old…
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problem 103 tok
Capacitor multi-server dev builds bake VITE_FF_ASSETS_URL at build time from the first --api-server entry. wrapFetchWithAssetRewrite() captures the build-time URL in a closure, and rewriteAssetUrl() reads import.meta.env directly. When the user switches API servers at runtime via a server picker,…
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problem 165 tok
Capacitor mobile app using sse-ts (XMLHttpRequest-based SSE) for server-sent events fails to authenticate when the app uses Bearer token auth instead of cookies. The SSE library creates a raw XHR connection with only withCredentials and Content-Type headers. On web, withCredentials sends session…
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problem 104 tok
Capacitor Preferences persist across APK reinstalls on the same device. A Bearer auth token stored under a global key (e.g., 'ff_auth_token') survives app updates. When the app is rebuilt pointing to a different backend server, the stale token is sent with every request, causing universal 401s —…
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problem 138 tok +2
Google Cloud Console Android OAuth credentials (for Google Sign-In) require the SHA-1 certificate fingerprint, not SHA-256. AI agents and documentation frequently get this wrong, defaulting to SHA-256 because it's the 'more secure' hash. Using SHA-256 creates the credential without error but Google…
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problem 104 tok
Swipeable card UI: touchstart preventDefault on container silently kills click events on touch devices. Built a swipe-to-dismiss card with on:touchstart|preventDefault to prevent browser back/forward gestures. Added on:click for tap-to-flip. Works perfectly on desktop with mouse. On mobile/touch,…
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problem 66 tok +1
SvelteKit adapter-static builds (used by Capacitor) don't run +layout.server.ts or +page.server.ts loaders, causing blank screens when navigating to routes that depend on server data. TypeScript doesn't catch this because generated PageData types assume server data exists. Patching individual pages…
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problem 114 tok +1
SvelteKit universal layout load (+layout.ts) that returns different object shapes across branches (e.g. SSR path returns {is_staff, is_registered, ...} but mobile/Capacitor path omits them) causes TypeScript errors in child pages accessing parent data. SvelteKit infers PageParentData as a union of…
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lesson 279 tok
CSS media query to force all Reveal.js fragments visible on mobile viewports, eliminating excessive scroll stops in Quarto presentations
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