v0.2.0: never auto-send GPS; "Last lot" uses last session; About page rework

Location privacy (hard invariant): the device GPS is sent to the API ONLY when
the user taps "My location" and searches.
- Map opens on your LAST session's parking lot (the meter's coordinate from
  history), not your GPS.
- "Last" -> "Last lot": centers on the last session's lot and searches there
  (~couple-mile view) — no GPS.
- "Search this area" falls back to the tracked viewport center, never the GPS fix.

About page: lead with a BigBrainParking open-source blurb + repo link (was showing
ParkSmarter's own About text first); privacy wording updated to match; drop the
now-unused getAbout fetch.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

README.md

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ bigbrainparking/
 | --- | --- | --- |
 | Phone + password login | ✅ wired | tokens in OS keystore |
 | Map of nearby meters (clickable, zoom, live GPS) | ✅ wired | MapLibre + OpenFreeMap tiles (no key) |
-| "Near my last location" proximity search | ✅ wired | caches last GPS fix |
+| Last-lot + My-location search | ✅ wired | opens on your last session's lot; GPS sent only via explicit "My location" |
 | QR kiosk scan → meter lookup | ✅ wired | on-device VisionCamera |
 | Save / share kiosks | ✅ wired | local (no server favorites API exists) |
 | Active / past sessions | ✅ wired | list views + tap for full receipt |

app/app.json

@@ -3,14 +3,14 @@
     "name": "BigBrainParking",
     "slug": "bigbrainparking",
     "scheme": "bigbrainparking",
-    "version": "0.1.9",
+    "version": "0.2.0",
     "orientation": "portrait",
     "userInterfaceStyle": "automatic",
     "newArchEnabled": true,
     "icon": "./assets/icon.png",
     "android": {
       "package": "top.mowden.bigbrainparking",
-      "versionCode": 9,
+      "versionCode": 10,
       "edgeToEdgeEnabled": true,
       "adaptiveIcon": {
         "foregroundImage": "./assets/adaptive-icon.png",

app/src/screens/AboutScreen.tsx

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
-import React, { useEffect, useRef, useState } from 'react';
+import React, { useRef, useState } from 'react';
 import {
   Image,
+  Linking,
   Modal,
   Pressable,
   ScrollView,
@@ -9,24 +10,17 @@ import {
   TouchableOpacity,
   View,
 } from 'react-native';
-import { ps } from '@/api/client';
 import { useTheme } from '@/theme/ThemeContext';
 
 const TAPS_TO_UNLOCK = 7;
+const REPO_URL = 'https://git.mowden.top/hank/BigBrainParking';
 
 export function AboutScreen() {
   const { colors } = useTheme();
-  const [about, setAbout] = useState<string | null>(null);
   const [showJoel, setShowJoel] = useState(false);
   const taps = useRef(0);
   const resetTimer = useRef<ReturnType<typeof setTimeout> | null>(null);
 
-  useEffect(() => {
-    ps.getAbout()
-      .then((r) => setAbout(r.Value ?? ''))
-      .catch(() => setAbout(''));
-  }, []);
-
   // Tap the title 7 times (within a rolling window) to summon Joel.
   const onTitleTap = () => {
     taps.current += 1;
@@ -44,7 +38,17 @@ export function AboutScreen() {
         <Text style={[styles.title, { color: colors.text }]}>About BigBrainParking</Text>
       </Pressable>
 
-      <Text style={[styles.body, { color: colors.text }]}>{about ?? 'Loading…'}</Text>
+      <Text style={[styles.body, { color: colors.text }]}>
+        BigBrainParking is a free, <Text style={{ fontWeight: '700' }}>open-source</Text>,
+        de-Googled client for the ParkSmarter parking system, built to run on GrapheneOS
+        without any Google services. It’s an independent project — not affiliated with,
+        endorsed by, or supported by IPS Group / ParkSmarter.
+      </Text>
+
+      <TouchableOpacity onPress={() => Linking.openURL(REPO_URL)} style={{ marginTop: 12 }}>
+        <Text style={[styles.link, { color: colors.primary }]}>Source code & issues ›</Text>
+        <Text style={[styles.linkUrl, { color: colors.subtext }]}>{REPO_URL}</Text>
+      </TouchableOpacity>
 
       <Text style={[styles.section, { color: colors.text }]}>What gets sent to ParkSmarter (IPS)</Text>
       <Text style={[styles.body, { color: colors.text }]}>
@@ -52,16 +56,20 @@ export function AboutScreen() {
         {'\n'}• Sign-in (your phone number + password) and your account data — vehicles, cards,
         and session history — the same as the official app.
         {'\n'}• To find meters, a single map coordinate: the point the map is centered on when you
-        search. “Near me” just centers the map on your device location first; otherwise it’s
+        search. Your device GPS is sent <Text style={{ fontWeight: '700' }}>only</Text> if you tap
-        wherever you’ve panned/zoomed to.
+        “My location” to center the map on yourself and then search; otherwise it’s wherever you’ve
+        panned to, or your last parking lot.
         {'\n'}• To start a session: the meter, your vehicle and card, the times, and the amount.
         No location is attached.
       </Text>
 
       <Text style={[styles.section, { color: colors.text }]}>What it does not do</Text>
       <Text style={[styles.body, { color: colors.text }]}>
-        {'\n'}• Your phone’s GPS is used only on-device to position the map, and cached locally so
+        {'\n'}• Your phone’s GPS is <Text style={{ fontWeight: '700' }}>never sent to the API</Text>{' '}
-        “last location” works — it is never attached to sign-in, sessions, vehicles, or payments.
+        unless you deliberately tap “My location” and search. The map opens on your last parking lot
+        (from your history — the meter’s location, not your GPS), and “Last lot” does the same. GPS
+        otherwise only draws your dot on the map and is never attached to sign-in, sessions,
+        vehicles, or payments.
         {'\n'}• No background location, no tracking, no device ID / IMEI / advertising identifiers,
         and no Google services. Session-expiry reminders are scheduled entirely on your device.
       </Text>
@@ -84,6 +92,8 @@ const styles = StyleSheet.create({
   title: { fontSize: 24, fontWeight: '700', marginBottom: 16 },
   section: { fontSize: 17, fontWeight: '700', marginTop: 22, marginBottom: 6 },
   body: { fontSize: 15, lineHeight: 22, color: '#333' },
+  link: { fontSize: 15, fontWeight: '700' },
+  linkUrl: { fontSize: 13, marginTop: 2 },
   meta: { fontSize: 12, color: '#999', marginTop: 24 },
   joelBackdrop: {
     flex: 1,

app/src/screens/MapScreen.tsx

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ import type { NativeStackNavigationProp } from '@react-navigation/native-stack';
 import { useSafeAreaInsets } from 'react-native-safe-area-context';
 import { useTheme } from '@/theme/ThemeContext';
 import { ps } from '@/api/client';
-import { useLocation, getLastKnownSavedLocation, type Coords } from '@/features/location/useLocation';
+import { useLocation, type Coords } from '@/features/location/useLocation';
 import type { RootStackParamList } from '@/navigation/RootNavigator';
 import type { Zone } from 'parksmarter-client';
 
@@ -68,11 +68,29 @@ export function MapScreen() {
   // location" works even when expo-location can't get a fix (e.g. indoors).
   const nativeFix = useRef<Coords | null>(null);
 
-  // Seed the initial camera target from a cached location so we don't strand at 0,0.
+  // Look up the LAST session's parking-lot coordinate (the meter's own location
+  // from history — never the user's GPS). Used to open the map and by "Last lot".
+  const lastSessionLot = useCallback(async (): Promise<Coords | null> => {
+    try {
+      const past = await ps.getPastParkingSessions({ currentPage: 1, pageSize: 1 });
+      const s = past.Session?.[0] as Record<string, any> | undefined;
+      const lat = Number(s?.Lat);
+      const lng = Number(s?.Long);
+      if (s && Number.isFinite(lat) && Number.isFinite(lng) && !(lat === 0 && lng === 0)) {
+        return { latitude: lat, longitude: lng };
+      }
+    } catch {
+      /* ignore */
+    }
+    return null;
+  }, []);
+
+  // Open on your last parking lot — NOT your GPS. Your location is only ever sent
+  // to the API when you explicitly tap "My location", so we never auto-center on it.
   useEffect(() => {
     (async () => {
-      const last = await getLastKnownSavedLocation();
+      const lot = await lastSessionLot();
-      setInitialCenter(last ?? coords ?? DEFAULT_CENTER);
+      setInitialCenter(lot ?? DEFAULT_CENTER);
     })();
     // eslint-disable-next-line react-hooks/exhaustive-deps
   }, []);
@@ -109,21 +127,27 @@ export function MapScreen() {
     }
   }, []);
 
-  // Search whatever the map is currently centered on (works with no GPS).
+  // Search whatever the map is currently centered on. This only ever sends the
+  // map's center point — never the device GPS. (If you want to search your own
+  // location, tap "My location" to center there first, then Search this area.)
   const searchThisArea = async () => {
+    let center: [number, number] | null = null;
     try {
-      const center = await mapRef.current?.getCenter?.(); // [lng, lat]
+      const c = await mapRef.current?.getCenter?.(); // [lng, lat]
-      if (center && center.length === 2) {
+      if (Array.isArray(c) && c.length === 2) center = [c[0], c[1]];
-        // Commit the current view as the camera's stop so the results re-render
-        // doesn't revert to the last programmatic (e.g. "My location") target.
-        cameraRef.current?.setCamera?.({ centerCoordinate: center, animationDuration: 0 });
-        await searchAt({ latitude: center[1], longitude: center[0] }, 'this area');
-        return;
-      }
     } catch {
       /* fall through */
     }
-    if (coords) await searchAt(coords, 'this area');
+    // Fallback is the tracked viewport center — deliberately NOT the GPS fix.
+    if (!center && viewRef.current) center = viewRef.current.center;
+    if (!center) {
+      setStatus('Move the map, then tap “Search this area”.');
+      return;
+    }
+    // Commit the current view as the camera's stop so the results re-render
+    // doesn't revert to the last programmatic (e.g. "My location") target.
+    cameraRef.current?.setCamera?.({ centerCoordinate: center, animationDuration: 0 });
+    await searchAt({ latitude: center[1], longitude: center[0] }, 'this area');
   };
 
   // Recenter on the live GPS fix (if available) and search there. Prefer the
@@ -142,18 +166,23 @@ export function MapScreen() {
     await searchAt(c, 'you');
   };
 
-  const searchLastKnown = async () => {
+  // Center on the LAST SESSION's parking lot (the meter's own coordinate from
-    const last = (await getLastKnownSavedLocation()) ?? coords;
+  // history — never your GPS) and search around it with a ~couple-mile view.
-    if (!last) {
+  const searchLastSessionLot = async () => {
-      setStatus('No saved location yet — enable location once to cache it.');
+    setLoading(true);
+    setStatus('Finding your last parking lot…');
+    const lot = await lastSessionLot();
+    if (!lot) {
+      setStatus('No past parking session with a location yet.');
+      setLoading(false);
       return;
     }
     cameraRef.current?.setCamera?.({
-      centerCoordinate: [last.longitude, last.latitude],
+      centerCoordinate: [lot.longitude, lot.latitude],
-      zoomLevel: 15,
+      zoomLevel: 12.5, // ~a couple miles across
-      animationDuration: 500,
+      animationDuration: 600,
     });
-    await searchAt(last, 'last location');
+    await searchAt(lot, 'your last lot');
   };
 
   // Meters as a GeoJSON layer (GPU-drawn, coordinate-anchored) — far more stable
@@ -259,8 +288,8 @@ export function MapScreen() {
         <TouchableOpacity style={styles.pill} onPress={goToMyLocation}>
           <Text style={styles.pillText}>My location</Text>
         </TouchableOpacity>
-        <TouchableOpacity style={styles.pill} onPress={searchLastKnown}>
+        <TouchableOpacity style={styles.pill} onPress={searchLastSessionLot}>
-          <Text style={styles.pillText}>Last</Text>
+          <Text style={styles.pillText}>Last lot</Text>
         </TouchableOpacity>
       </View>
     </View>