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Summary

  • Subscribed latest-episode lists (Home chips, Library New Episodes, Podcast Info) now refresh from PI /sync and the publisher feed without tapping into each show.
  • Opening Subscriptions — including Open app to → Subscriptions — runs a live /sync instead of showing a Room cache that may be hours old.
  • New-episode FCM hydration uses the same full refreshFromFeed rematch as launch, so extras and tips stay aligned with the notification.

Motivation

Follow-up to yesterday’s #971 extras release: Home chips and Library New Episodes still showed Podcast Index latest until the listener opened each show (or only Home). People who launch straight to Subscriptions never got a live refresh. FCM hydration was tip-only, so extras lagged behind the push.

What changed

  • getEpisodesPaginated(..., mergeSupplements) with a 1000-oldest PI-only baseline for rematch (Info, launch, FCM).
  • Launch / resume / Library appear / 15-minute periodic SubscriptionForegroundSync persist full extras via refreshFromFeed, not tip-only resolveNewestTipFromFeed.
  • requestRefresh() on Subscriptions ON_START (no extra delay) so open-app-to-Subscriptions is live; Home still waits 2s for first paint; 5-minute cooldown + in-flight coalescing.
  • Home selected-chip signal includes latestEpisodeId + rssHasNewEpisodes; same-chip reload is in-place (no skeleton).
  • Podcast Info pull-to-refresh for opted-in PI shows.
  • Feed concurrency 6, selected chip first, 304 HEAD skip; dropped the extra 12s launch delay (keep 2s Home delay).

Behavior & compatibility

  • Before: New Episodes / Home chips could stay on PI latest until you opened the show. Launch-to-Subscriptions was cache-only. FCM did not rematch extras.
  • After: The same Room tips (podcasts.latestEpisode, extras in episode_supplement_items) update on launch, resume, Subscriptions appear, periodic 15 min, FCM, and Info pull-refresh.
  • Does not opt a show into Missing episodes? from FCM. True rss: catalogs are unchanged. Warm process still honors the 5-minute cooldown.
  • Older clients keep the previous process-once / tip-only behavior; no payload or API change.

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What changes in the user’s life:

This is a follow-up to yesterday’s missing-episodes release. New episodes for subscribed shows now show up in Library and on Home without tapping into every show first. If you open boxlore straight to Subscriptions, that list is fetched live, not leftover from the last time you used Home. Notifications for extra publisher-feed episodes still match what you see in the app.

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CHANGELOG.md (developer copy)

Fixed

  • Follow-up to feat(catalog): fill missing PI episodes from the publisher feed and notify from RSS #971: subscribed Home chips, Library New Episodes, and Podcast Info rematch publisher-feed extras against a 1000-oldest PI baseline and refresh Room tips on launch, resume, Subscriptions appear, 15-minute periodic sync, and FCM — without opening each show.
  • Open-app-to-Subscriptions runs a live PI /sync (requestRefresh) instead of a cache-only Room read; Home still delays 2s for first paint.

README What's New / Upcoming (listener copy)

Critical

  • Sorry for another update so soon — this is a follow-up fix for yesterday’s release
  • New episodes in your library and on Home now show up when you open boxlore, including if you go straight to Subscriptions, without tapping into each show first

Test plan

  • Built / installed locally (./gradlew installDebug) when UI or app behavior changed
  • Unit tests for SubscriptionForegroundSync, FCM hydration, Home selected-chip signal, Info supplement/pull-refresh, extras rematch
  • Manual: launch to Home — selected chip extras appear after sync (in-place, no skeleton)
  • Manual: Open app to → Subscriptions — New Episodes updates without visiting Home or each show
  • Manual: force-stop, relaunch, resume after 5+ minutes — /sync runs again
  • Manual: opted-in PI show Info pull-to-refresh
  • Manual: FCM new-episode for an extras show matches Library / Home tip
  • Required checks are green before merge completes

Notes (optional)

  • Force-stop once after install so process-wide SubscriptionForegroundSync picks up the new behavior.
  • Remaining gaps (not this PR): PI /sync can still lag Info pagination; 304 HEAD can skip a feed that did change; shows not opted into Missing episodes? stay PI-only; network failure keeps last good cache.

…ach show

Foreground /sync, publisher-feed rematch, FCM, and Library resume now write the same Room tips so Home chips and New Episodes update when the app opens — including launch-to-Subscriptions.
@ashwkun ashwkun added the user-impact-high Listeners clearly notice this change — prioritize README and notification label Aug 13, 2026
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  • app/README.md
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  • app/src/main/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/fcm/NewEpisodePushHydration.kt
  • app/src/main/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/ui/BoxLoreAppRoot.kt
  • app/src/main/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/ui/logic/SubscriptionResumeRefreshLogic.kt
  • app/src/test/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/fcm/NewEpisodeFcmLogicTest.kt
  • app/src/test/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/fcm/NewEpisodePushHydrationTest.kt
  • app/src/test/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/ui/logic/SubscriptionResumeRefreshLogicTest.kt
  • core/catalog/README.md
  • core/catalog/src/main/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/core/catalog/PodcastRepository.kt
  • core/catalog/src/main/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/core/catalog/SubscriptionForegroundSync.kt
  • core/catalog/src/test/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/core/catalog/PodcastRepositoryEpisodeSupplementTest.kt
  • core/domain/README.md
  • core/rss/README.md
  • core/rss/src/test/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/core/rss/EpisodeSupplementRepositoryTest.kt
  • feature/home/README.md
  • feature/home/src/main/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/feature/home/HomeViewModel.kt
  • feature/home/src/main/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/feature/home/HomeViewModelSelected.kt
  • feature/home/src/main/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/feature/home/logic/HomeForegroundSyncLogic.kt
  • feature/home/src/test/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/feature/home/logic/HomeForegroundSyncLogicTest.kt
  • feature/info/README.md
  • feature/info/src/main/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/feature/info/PodcastInfoScreen.kt
  • feature/info/src/main/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/feature/info/PodcastInfoViewModel.kt
  • feature/info/src/main/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/feature/info/logic/PodcastInfoPullRefreshLogic.kt
  • feature/info/src/test/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/feature/info/logic/PodcastInfoViewModelLogicTest.kt

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core/rss/src/main/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/core/rss/EpisodeSupplementRepository.kt (1)

67-100: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Add hermetic tests for the request refresh path.

Line 67 adds production behavior for RefreshFromFeedRequest.loadBaseline.

The changed tests do not execute a successful request-based refresh. They do not verify that the baseline result prevents matching PI episodes from being persisted as supplements.

Add tests for a successful feed refresh with loadBaseline, an empty baseline, and stored-HTTPS URL fallback.

As per coding guidelines, “Whenever production Kotlin changes under core/<module>/src/main/ ... it must add or extend hermetic JVM unit tests ... covering new happy, empty, and error behavior as applicable.”

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In
`@core/rss/src/main/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/core/rss/EpisodeSupplementRepository.kt`
around lines 67 - 100, Add hermetic JVM tests for the request-based refresh path
using EpisodeSupplementRepository.refreshFromFeed: cover successful loadBaseline
execution, verify an empty baseline is handled and matching PI episodes are not
persisted as supplements, and verify stored-HTTPS URL fallback. Reuse existing
test fixtures and assertions where available, and include applicable error
behavior without changing production code.

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Inline comments:
In `@app/src/main/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/fcm/NewEpisodePushHydration.kt`:
- Around line 65-68: Update resolveMatchedTip so an identified push containing a
GUID or enclosure URL returns null when no matching episode is found, rather
than falling back to the unrelated picked episode; retain picked only when
neither identifier is present. Add a regression test covering a successful
refresh with an unrelated newest tip and no matching enclosure.

In `@app/src/main/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/ui/BoxLoreAppRoot.kt`:
- Around line 295-313: Extract the first-ON_START gating decision from the
lifecycle observer in the onboarding-completed flow into a pure helper,
preserving suppression of the initial event and requesting refresh on subsequent
ON_START events. Add app JVM tests covering both initial-start suppression and
refresh on the next ON_START.

In `@app/src/test/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/fcm/NewEpisodeFcmLogicTest.kt`:
- Around line 45-82: Add coverage in
pickHydratedEpisodePrefersEnclosureThenNewestTip for newestTip == null,
asserting it selects the cached episode with the greatest publishedDate, and add
an empty extras case asserting the result is null. Keep the existing enclosure
and newestTip assertions unchanged.

In `@app/src/test/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/fcm/NewEpisodePushHydrationTest.kt`:
- Around line 90-102: Extend the JVM test for
NewEpisodePushHydration.resolveLocalEpisode to capture the feedId and limit
passed to piBaselineLoader, return known episodes, and assert the returned
episodes plus the forwarded podcast ID and limit == 1000; preserve
SUPPLEMENT_BASELINE_LIMIT at 1000.

In
`@core/catalog/src/main/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/core/catalog/PodcastRepository.kt`:
- Around line 332-351: The PI request path must not convert failures into an
empty EpisodePage when the result is used as a baseline, because that causes
existing supplement rows to be replaced. Add a strict baseline loader near the
existing PodcastRepository flow that propagates PI request/HTTP failures and
avoids persisting supplements; keep the current empty-page fallback only for UI
behavior. Add a regression test covering an HTTP failure with an existing
supplement row and verify the row remains unchanged.

In
`@core/catalog/src/main/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/core/catalog/SubscriptionForegroundSync.kt`:
- Around line 362-376: Update syncPiChunks to cap concurrent syncOneChunk
executions using the existing Semaphore pattern from syncDirectFeedNetwork,
acquiring a permit before each chunk sync and releasing it afterward. Preserve
the current chunking, coroutineScope, and awaitAll behavior while ensuring large
subscription lists cannot launch unbounded requests.

In
`@core/domain/src/main/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/core/domain/ports/EpisodeSupplementPort.kt`:
- Around line 15-30: Update core/domain/README.md to document the request-based
EpisodeSupplementPort refresh contract, including RefreshFromFeedRequest, lazy
Podcast Index baseline loading via loadBaseline, and the publisher-feed
freshness check.

In `@feature/home/src/main/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/feature/home/HomeViewModel.kt`:
- Around line 340-342: Add matching JVM tests in feature/home/src/test for
HomeViewModel.kt lines 340-342, verifying that selecting and clearing a podcast
calls subscriptionForegroundSync.preferFeedPodcast with the expected podcast ID
and cleared value; also test HomeViewModelSelected.kt lines 140-149 to confirm
matching refresh events reload the selected podcast without entering loading
state, while nonmatching events do not reload it.

In
`@feature/info/src/main/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/feature/info/PodcastInfoViewModel.kt`:
- Around line 754-791: Add hermetic JVM tests for refreshDirectFeedFromPull in
PodcastInfoViewModelLogicTest, covering successful refreshes with and without
libraryTip and an exception path. Assert currentOffset, isRssRefreshing,
DirectFeedChipState, and subscriptionRepository.updateLatestEpisode behavior,
including that persistence occurs only for subscribed podcasts with a tip and
that exceptions restore the expected failure state.
- Around line 754-788: Update refreshDirectFeedFromPull to capture the target
podcast ID before launching and use the captured state for
refreshMissingEpisodes. After suspension, verify currentPodcastId still matches
that ID before updating _uiState or currentOffset, preventing results from one
podcast from overwriting another podcast’s state.

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Outside diff comments:
In
`@core/rss/src/main/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/core/rss/EpisodeSupplementRepository.kt`:
- Around line 67-100: Add hermetic JVM tests for the request-based refresh path
using EpisodeSupplementRepository.refreshFromFeed: cover successful loadBaseline
execution, verify an empty baseline is handled and matching PI episodes are not
persisted as supplements, and verify stored-HTTPS URL fallback. Reuse existing
test fixtures and assertions where available, and include applicable error
behavior without changing production code.

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  • core/catalog/src/main/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/core/catalog/logic/DirectFeedSyncOrder.kt
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  • core/catalog/src/test/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/core/catalog/PodcastRepositoryEpisodeSupplementTest.kt
  • core/catalog/src/test/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/core/catalog/SubscriptionForegroundSyncTest.kt
  • core/catalog/src/test/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/core/catalog/logic/DirectFeedSyncOrderTest.kt
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  • core/rss/src/main/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/core/rss/EpisodeSupplementRepository.kt
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  • feature/home/README.md
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  • feature/home/src/main/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/feature/home/HomeViewModelSelected.kt
  • feature/home/src/main/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/feature/home/logic/HomeSelectedPodcastLogic.kt
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  • feature/info/README.md
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  • feature/library/README.md
  • feature/library/src/main/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/feature/library/LibraryViewModel.kt
  • feature/library/src/main/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/feature/library/SubscriptionsScreen.kt

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Podcast Info only wrapped true RSS catalogs, so PI shows had no pull gesture. Also fail closed on a missing PI baseline, drop unrelated FCM tip fallbacks, and cover the review follow-ups.
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