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Summary

  • Reduce avoidable playback and Smart Download power use while preserving background audio, Cast recovery, and resume accuracy.
  • Give Home, Library Smart, widgets, and Auto one deterministic Your Shows score with graceful Home refreshes.

Motivation

Long-lived paused playback and frequent polling/notification work could waste battery. Home could also retain an old subscription order for the entire process lifetime while Library displayed newly calculated scores.

What changed

  • Restrict UI position polling to foreground UI, keep persistence in the playback service, enable safe audio offload, reduce outro polling, and stop paused background local sessions after 15 minutes.
  • Guard automatic Smart Download syncs with a shared 24-hour cadence and refresh download notifications every five seconds.
  • Apply subscription recency once, accelerate its post-three-day decay, and preserve deterministic scoring across subscription surfaces.
  • Refresh Home's stable order on a later entry after 30 minutes, with score hysteresis to prevent minor reshuffling; subscription and pin changes remain immediate.
  • Add JVM regression coverage and update module/recommendation documentation.

Behavior & compatibility

  • Active playback, buffering intent, Cast sessions, foreground UI, manual Smart Download sync, WAKE_MODE_NETWORK, Smart Queue ownership, and stored identities remain unchanged.
  • Home still does not move covers during an active viewing session. Its display snapshot can update when the listener returns later, while Library continues to show the canonical live score order.
  • No database migration, preference rename, media-ID change, or backend change.

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Listener impact

What changes in the user’s life:

  • boxlore does less unnecessary work while playback is paused or the app is backgrounded, reducing avoidable battery use.
  • Your Shows ordering stays calm while on screen but reflects listening habits when returning later, consistently with Library Smart sorting.

Backend — optional

  • backend-change

Release copy (verbatim — highest priority)

CHANGELOG.md (developer copy)

Changed

  • Reduced background playback polling, paused-service lifetime, outro polling, and download notification wakeups while preserving active playback and Cast behavior.
  • Unified Your Shows scoring around one subscription-recency policy and added stable, lifecycle-aware Home order refreshes.

README What's New / Upcoming (listener copy)

Improved

  • boxlore now does less unnecessary background work during playback and downloads, helping reduce avoidable battery use.
  • Your Shows stays visually stable while you browse and refreshes gracefully when you return, matching your listening habits more consistently.

Test plan

  • Full JVM tests for :app, :core:playback, :core:downloads, :core:database, :core:ranking, and :feature:home
  • ktlint and detekt
  • Architecture guard tests and assembleDebug
  • Installed locally with ./gradlew installDebug
  • Manual listener verification of playback, paused teardown, Smart Downloads, and Home/Library ordering
  • Required PR checks are green before merge

Consolidate background work and keep subscription ordering current without disruptive in-session reshuffles.
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  • config/ktlint/feature-player-baseline.xml
  • core/downloads/README.md
  • core/downloads/src/main/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/core/downloads/SmartDownloadManager.kt
  • core/downloads/src/main/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/core/downloads/SmartDownloadScheduleLogic.kt
  • core/downloads/src/main/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/core/downloads/SmartDownloadSyncGate.kt
  • core/downloads/src/test/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/core/downloads/SmartDownloadScheduleLogicTest.kt
  • core/downloads/src/test/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/core/downloads/SmartDownloadSyncGateTest.kt
  • core/playback/README.md
  • core/playback/src/main/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/core/playback/PlaybackIntroOutroController.kt
  • core/playback/src/main/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/core/playback/PlaybackPowerPolicy.kt
  • core/playback/src/main/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/core/playback/PlaybackProgressCoordinator.kt
  • core/playback/src/main/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/core/playback/service/BoxLorePlaybackService.kt
  • core/playback/src/test/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/core/playback/PlaybackPowerPolicyTest.kt
  • feature/home/src/main/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/feature/home/HomeViewModelLoadData.kt
  • feature/player/src/main/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/feature/player/v2/FullPlayerCastControls.kt
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  • New Features

    • Home ordering now stays stable while visible, with periodic refreshes that avoid minor score-based reshuffling.
    • Playback position updates are limited to active foreground use.
    • Paused local playback can automatically stop after extended background inactivity.
    • Audio playback may use power-efficient offload where supported.
    • Automatic smart-download syncs now run at most once every 24 hours; manual refreshes remain immediate.
  • Improvements

    • Your Shows ranking avoids duplicate subscription-age weighting and applies faster decay after three days.
    • Outro detection and download notifications use updated refresh intervals.

Walkthrough

The change adds playback lifecycle power policies, separates subscription recency from canonical Your Shows scoring, adds stable Home ordering refreshes, and limits automatic smart-download synchronization to one run per 24 hours.

Changes

Playback lifecycle and power policy

Layer / File(s) Summary
Playback policy and UI visibility
app/src/main/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/MainActivity.kt, core/playback/src/main/java/.../PlaybackPowerPolicy.kt, core/playback/src/main/java/.../PlaybackRepository.kt, core/playback/src/test/...
Activity start and stop events control UI foreground state. Playback position polling now runs only for visible active playback.
Paused-idle teardown and outro monitoring
core/playback/src/main/java/.../PlaybackIntroOutroController.kt, core/playback/src/main/java/.../service/BoxLorePlaybackService.kt
The service schedules teardown for paused local playback after 15 minutes. Outro monitoring uses the shared policy and a 500 ms interval.
Playback service configuration and documentation
core/playback/src/main/java/.../service/PlaybackServicePlayerFactory.kt, core/playback/src/main/java/.../service/MediaDownloadService.kt, core/playback/README.md
ExoPlayer receives audio offload preferences. Download notifications use a five-second update interval. Documentation describes the updated ownership and polling behavior.

Your Shows ranking and Home refresh

Layer / File(s) Summary
Scoring and subscription recency
core/database/src/main/java/.../PodcastScoring.kt, core/ranking/src/main/java/..., core/ranking/src/test/..., docs/recommendation-system.md
Canonical Your Shows scoring disables legacy subscription recency before applying one standalone recency floor. Post-window decay changes from 108 to 48 hours.
Stable Home ordering and refresh policy
feature/home/src/main/java/.../logic/*, feature/home/src/main/java/.../HomeDataModels.kt, feature/home/src/test/...
Home adds a 0.05 score hysteresis threshold and a 30-minute snapshot-age refresh policy.
Foreground refresh orchestration
feature/home/src/main/java/.../HomeScreen.kt, feature/home/src/main/java/.../HomeViewModel.kt, feature/home/src/main/java/.../HomeViewModelLoadData.kt, feature/home/README.md, config/ktlint/feature-home-baseline.xml
Home requests refreshes on foreground entry, propagates refresh generations through loading, and records refreshed order metadata.

Smart download sync cadence

Layer / File(s) Summary
Automatic sync cadence
core/downloads/src/main/java/..., core/downloads/src/test/..., core/downloads/README.md
Automatic sync waits 24 hours after a successful run. First and manual syncs bypass the cadence.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to df0fe

This PR changes playback teardown, session persistence, automatic downloads, and Home refresh behavior. At the current head, resumed playback could still be stopped, final listening updates could be lost during service shutdown, and overlapping download runs could waste work or battery; smaller timestamp and refresh-order issues also remain. Merge should wait for fixes or explicit owner acceptance of these risks.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant MainActivity
  participant PlaybackRepository
  participant PlaybackUiVisibility
  participant BoxLorePlaybackService
  participant Player
  MainActivity->>PlaybackRepository: setUiForeground(true or false)
  PlaybackRepository->>PlaybackUiVisibility: update foreground state
  PlaybackUiVisibility->>BoxLorePlaybackService: notify visibility change
  BoxLorePlaybackService->>Player: schedule or cancel paused-idle teardown
  PlaybackRepository->>Player: poll position while UI is foregrounded
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sequenceDiagram
  participant HomeScreen
  participant HomeViewModel
  participant HomeShowsRefreshPolicy
  participant HomeViewModelLoadData
  participant HomeUiAssemblyLogic
  HomeScreen->>HomeViewModel: onHomeStarted()
  HomeViewModel->>HomeShowsRefreshPolicy: check snapshot age and pending generation
  HomeViewModel->>HomeViewModelLoadData: publish refresh generation
  HomeViewModelLoadData->>HomeUiAssemblyLogic: assemble refreshed order
  HomeUiAssemblyLogic-->>HomeScreen: stable Home rows
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Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Unresolved Review Threads ❌ Error Eight prior review findings remain unresolved. The PR head has no follow-up commit. The requested controller, manager, and Home orchestration tests are absent. shouldRunSync still lacks negative and… Fix each finding, add the requested hermetic regression tests, and mark every addressed thread Resolved. If a finding is not applicable, explicitly dismiss it with a short rationale. Re-run the review-thread gate after all thread states are…
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 4.84% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 62 functions across 24 files. (8 skipped: … Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
✅ Passed checks (7 passed)
Check name Status Explanation
Title check ✅ Passed The title follows Conventional Commits with the valid type and scope, uses imperative mood, describes the main changes, and is 53 characters long.
Description check ✅ Passed The description clearly explains the power-use changes, Your Shows scoring updates, user impact, compatibility, release copy, and test status. It is directly related to the changeset.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Architecture Compliance ✅ Passed PASS. The PR adds no cross-feature Gradle dependency or production import; the added Home import is within feature.home. No direct PostHog reference or forbidden Hilt, Koin, Dagger, or MockK usage i…
Module Readme Updated ✅ Passed All changed production Kotlin is covered by a modified module README in the same PR. The diff shows app/src/main covered by app/README.md; core/database, core/downloads, core/playback, and core/rankin…
Jvm Tests For Changed Logic ✅ Passed The PR adds hermetic JVM coverage under src/test for the changed logic. PodcastScoringTest covers disabling subscription recency while retaining listening signals; SmartDownloadScheduleLogicTest
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Docstring coverage is 4.84% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 62 functions across 24 files. (8 skipped: 8 unsupported.)

Full details: Unresolved Review Threads

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Eight prior review findings remain unresolved. The PR head has no follow-up commit. The requested controller, manager, and Home orchestration tests are absent. shouldRunSync still lacks negative and future-timestamp handling. performSync still has no atomic admission guard. saveProgressOnce still catches cancellation as a generic exception, and idle teardown still proceeds after it. Home still publishes stablePodcastOrder before its metadata. No supplied comment is marked resolved or explicitly dismissed.

Resolution

Fix each finding, add the requested hermetic regression tests, and mark every addressed thread Resolved. If a finding is not applicable, explicitly dismiss it with a short rationale. Re-run the review-thread gate after all thread states are updated.

Full details: Architecture Compliance

Explanation

PASS. The PR adds no cross-feature Gradle dependency or production import; the added Home import is within feature.home. No direct PostHog reference or forbidden Hilt, Koin, Dagger, or MockK usage is added. PlaybackRepository remains declared and constructed only through AppContainer, and no AppContainer graph change exists. No catalog or Gradle dependency change introduces a catalog→designsystem or catalog→playback edge. No PR-added production line changes a documented identity or storage name.

Full details: Module Readme Updated

Explanation

All changed production Kotlin is covered by a modified module README in the same PR. The diff shows app/src/main covered by app/README.md; core/database, core/downloads, core/playback, and core/ranking covered by their respective READMEs; and feature/home covered by feature/home/README.md. No changed production Kotlin path lacks its matching README. Test-only and config changes do not add a requirement.

Full details: Jvm Tests For Changed Logic

Explanation

The PR adds hermetic JVM coverage under src/test for the changed logic. PodcastScoringTest covers disabling subscription recency while retaining listening signals; SmartDownloadScheduleLogicTest covers the 24-hour boundary, first sync, and manual sync; PlaybackPowerPolicyTest covers UI polling, paused teardown, outro polling, and audio-offload settings; ranking tests cover single recency application and the new decay; and HomeShowsOrderLogicTest covers hysteresis and the 30-minute refresh policy. The lifecycle wiring is Android/Compose integration, for which the check does not require instrumentation tests.

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Inline comments:
In
`@core/downloads/src/main/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/core/downloads/SmartDownloadManager.kt`:
- Around line 394-406: Update SmartDownloadManager.performSync to serialize the
cadence check and entire sync execution, using a Mutex or an atomic
shared-storage claim so concurrent callers cannot both pass shouldRunSync.
Preserve manual-sync behavior and existing return semantics, and add a
concurrent JVM regression test verifying the sync body executes only once.

In
`@core/downloads/src/main/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/core/downloads/SmartDownloadScheduleLogic.kt`:
- Around line 27-34: Update shouldRunSync so a lastSuccessfulSyncMs later than
nowMs is treated as eligible for automatic sync, while preserving manual,
unset-timestamp, and normal interval behavior. Add a regression test covering a
future stored timestamp and asserting that shouldRunSync returns true.

In
`@core/playback/src/main/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/core/playback/PlaybackIntroOutroController.kt`:
- Around line 179-191: Extend or add a hermetic JVM test for
PlaybackIntroOutroController covering the outro-monitor lifecycle: start
monitoring after configuration resolves, stop when playback stops or
effectiveSkipEndingMs becomes zero, and clear or avoid retaining a stale
outroMonitorJob. Anchor the test to startOutroMonitor and the relevant
configuration/playback transition APIs, while preserving existing predicate
coverage in PlaybackPowerPolicyTest.

Apply the same fix in
`@core/downloads/src/test/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/core/downloads/SmartDownloadScheduleLogicTest.kt`
around lines 69 - 87: Covers the negative timestamp boundary.

Apply the same fix in
`@core/downloads/src/main/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/core/downloads/SmartDownloadManager.kt`
around lines 394 - 406: Covers manager-level cadence behavior.

Apply the same fix in
`@feature/home/src/main/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/feature/home/HomeViewModel.kt`
around lines 218 - 231: Covers Home refresh orchestration and its load-flow
handoff.

In
`@core/playback/src/main/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/core/playback/service/BoxLorePlaybackService.kt`:
- Around line 924-931: Update the remainsIdle teardown flow in
BoxLorePlaybackService so cancellation from
PlaybackProgressCoordinator.saveProgressOnce is propagated or checked before
ending telemetry, pausing the player, and calling stopSelf; re-evaluate the idle
predicate after the suspended persistence completes to avoid tearing down
resumed playback. Add a hermetic regression test covering playback resuming
while saveProgressOnce is suspended.

In
`@feature/home/src/main/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/feature/home/HomeViewModelLoadData.kt`:
- Around line 485-489: In the initial assembly flow, update
stablePodcastOrderCreatedAtMs and appliedShowsOrderRefreshGeneration before
assigning stablePodcastOrder, so observers never see a non-null order with
uninitialized refresh metadata. Preserve the existing conditional updates
governed by previousShowsOrder and refreshShowsOrder.

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  • app/README.md
  • app/src/main/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/MainActivity.kt
  • config/ktlint/feature-home-baseline.xml
  • core/database/README.md
  • core/database/src/main/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/core/database/PodcastScoring.kt
  • core/database/src/test/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/core/database/PodcastScoringTest.kt
  • core/downloads/README.md
  • core/downloads/src/main/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/core/downloads/SmartDownloadManager.kt
  • core/downloads/src/main/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/core/downloads/SmartDownloadScheduleLogic.kt
  • core/downloads/src/test/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/core/downloads/SmartDownloadScheduleLogicTest.kt
  • core/playback/README.md
  • core/playback/src/main/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/core/playback/PlaybackIntroOutroController.kt
  • core/playback/src/main/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/core/playback/PlaybackPowerPolicy.kt
  • core/playback/src/main/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/core/playback/PlaybackRepository.kt
  • core/playback/src/main/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/core/playback/service/BoxLorePlaybackService.kt
  • core/playback/src/main/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/core/playback/service/MediaDownloadService.kt
  • core/playback/src/main/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/core/playback/service/PlaybackServicePlayerFactory.kt
  • core/playback/src/test/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/core/playback/PlaybackPowerPolicyTest.kt
  • core/ranking/README.md
  • core/ranking/src/main/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/core/ranking/YourShowsScorer.kt
  • core/ranking/src/main/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/core/ranking/YourShowsSubscriptionRecency.kt
  • core/ranking/src/test/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/core/ranking/YourShowsScorerTest.kt
  • core/ranking/src/test/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/core/ranking/YourShowsSubscriptionRecencyTest.kt
  • docs/recommendation-system.md
  • feature/home/README.md
  • feature/home/src/main/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/feature/home/HomeDataModels.kt
  • feature/home/src/main/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/feature/home/HomeScreen.kt
  • feature/home/src/main/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/feature/home/HomeViewModel.kt
  • feature/home/src/main/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/feature/home/HomeViewModelLoadData.kt
  • feature/home/src/main/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/feature/home/logic/HomeShowsOrderLogic.kt
  • feature/home/src/main/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/feature/home/logic/HomeUiAssemblyLogic.kt
  • feature/home/src/test/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/feature/home/logic/HomeShowsOrderLogicTest.kt

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Comment thread feature/home/src/main/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/feature/home/HomeViewModelLoadData.kt Outdated
Serialize smart-download admission and recheck playback idleness so overlapping work or resumed playback cannot trigger stale cleanup.
Release finished monitor jobs so later playback transitions always start from current state.
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