The ongoing countdown now appears whenever a car is parked, paid or free,
and sticks around the way ntfy's does on GrapheneOS.
Why it wasn't showing at all on a paid park: StartSessionScreen carried its
own stricter copy of parseApiTime that demanded MM-DD-YYYY + AM/PM. The
dual-format fix from deb78bf only landed in sessionStatus.ts, so when the
API returned the other format the parser returned null and the notification
was simply never posted. There is now one parser (api/parseTime.ts), and the
failure logs instead of going silent.
Persistence: a plain notify() was never enough — Android 14+ lets the user
swipe an ongoing notification away, and nothing brought it back after a
reboot. BbpSessionService is a real foreground service (type specialUse) that
owns the notification, plus a BOOT_COMPLETED receiver to restore it; specialUse
is one of the types Android 14/15 still allow to start from BOOT_COMPLETED.
The service's life is exactly the session's life: it stops itself, removing
the notification, on End, at expiry, or when there's no session to show.
Buttons: paid sessions previously got no actions at all (only free check-ins
did). Both now get End and Extend/Pay. End stops tracking — honest about the
fact that ParkSmarter has no stop-session endpoint, so bought time keeps
running at the meter. Extend opens the purchase screen for that exact zone.
The active session (with its Zone) is persisted locally, so the countdown and
Extend survive reboot, offline, and Anonymous Mode instead of depending on a
round-trip. sessionStatus.ts + features/checkin collapse into one owner,
features/session/activeParking — one record, one notification.
Verified: :bbp-notify:compileDebugKotlin passes, and the merged app manifest
carries the service (specialUse + FGS subtype property), both receivers, and
the FOREGROUND_SERVICE/SPECIAL_USE/RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED permissions.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
docs/OFFICIAL_APP_PRIVACY.md — readable-by-anyone comparison based on the official
app's manifest + decompiled bundle (v4.4.0): auto-sends GPS to IPS on map open;
bundles Segment/Amplitude/Firebase/Sentry + ad-ID + install-referrer; can send
IMEI; but NO background location. Contrasts with BigBrainParking (explicit-only
location, zero analytics). Confidence levels labeled. Linked from README.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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.
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- docs/PARKSMARTER_API.md: narrative guides (bootstrap/auth, finding parking,
estimates, initiating a transaction, sessions/receipts, account) + per-endpoint
reference + a behaviors/gotchas table (200-on-error, stale-token empty body,
multi-estimate fallback, free windows, flat-rate zones, no free check-in).
- client README: link the guide; promote PastSession/ParkingReceipt to CONFIRMED
(ActiveSession still pending — no active session at capture time).
- Main README: mark "Start a paid session" as working (confirmed live end-to-end).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Session-expiry reminders are purely on-device (AlarmManager); added an Android
notification channel and a "Send a test reminder" button (Account > Notifications)
to verify delivery without a real session
- Strip all FCM/bridge talk from unifiedPush.ts + README; UnifiedPush(ntfy) is now
an optional no-op stub for hypothetical future server-initiated messages only
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Forgejo keeps obtainium:// URLs in markdown links (verified via the render API) but
not as bare autolinks — so use [text](obtainium://…) syntax in INSTALL.md and README.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Fix withReleaseSigning: RN template's unconditional debug signingConfig was
overriding the release key. Now uses the release key when BBP_UPLOAD_* is set
(verified: APK signed CN=BigBrainParking), else debug.
- INSTALL.md: dead-simple Obtainium setup (one-tap obtainium:// link + manual
Forgejo-source steps). README links it.
- scripts/publish-release.sh: create a Forgejo release + upload the signed APK.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Reverse-engineered ParkSmarter API client (TypeScript, live-verified) plus a
de-Googled Expo/React Native app for GrapheneOS: MapLibre meter map with GPS,
VisionCamera QR kiosk scanning with save/share, local session-expiry reminders,
UnifiedPush wiring, and Gitea CI to publish signed APKs for Obtainium.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
