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Tom Brow
fea02d174d fix(ios): fetch profiles and avatars in notification extension (#8369)
A notification can arrive from someone whose profile the main app has
never loaded. The iOS notification extension now fetches and caches
sender profiles, channel details, and avatars itself. The main app
supplies account configuration and Keychain credentials only.

After resolving the message, the extension allows 1.5 seconds for sender
and channel details. It uses available stale data when a refresh is slow
or fails, delivers once, and lets late results update its private cache.
Profiles, channel details, and avatar refresh checks share a one-hour
freshness threshold. A verified avatar removal clears the previous
image. Account removal prevents further use of that sign-in's cached
data.

Profile, channel metadata, and membership use separate bounded
downloads, so an oversized roster cannot discard the smaller records.
Sender enrichment can finish while channel requests are pending. A
successful partial channel refresh atomically removes its old
counterpart, preventing a mixed group identity or recipient count.
Group-specific notification presentation still requires a verified
recipient count.

The
[specification](https://github.com/block/buzz/blob/native-notification-enrichment/docs/native-notification-enrichment.md)
describes the display, caching, and account-removal behavior. General
persistent image caching in Flutter remains separate.

### Validation

[Hosted CI](https://github.com/block/buzz/actions/runs/38780108487)
passed on the final commit, including all Flutter shards, Android, the
full iOS release and simulator builds, and native
controls/push-navigation tests. The [current-commit security
review](https://github.com/block/buzz/pull/8369#issuecomment-6197508385)
found no issues.

The native package passed 159 tests, including new coverage for cache
freshness, avatar replacement and removal, sign-in isolation, concurrent
storage, late results, single delivery, bounded downloads, and SVG
validation. A regression test exposed identical HTTP authentication
event IDs for requests in the same second; each request now includes a
unique nonce, matching the Dart and CLI clients.

Full local CI passed before that small authentication fix. The complete
native suite and signed device build passed again on the latest commit,
including response-size limits, overlapping avatar downloads, canonical
relay-origin matching, independent profile/channel refreshes,
account-key changes before and during requests, and a single initial
snapshot read across 64 accounts, signed IPv6 avatar authorities, and
partial channel refreshes. Focused Flutter regression tests passed 198
tests with three configuration-specific skips; seven avatar widget tests
also passed. Flutter analysis is clean, and the notification extension
builds for the simulator.

On an iPhone SE, the notification displayed the sender name, avatar,
channel, and message before the updated main app was opened. Repeat
notifications used a byte-identical private cache. Three notifications
delivered together displayed the avatar after the authentication fix.
The next notification also displayed correctly after terminating the
extension process. The existing generic-push design can select the same
newest unread message for several pushes; this change does not alter
message selection.

![Notification before first app launch after
upgrade](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/block/buzz/37d450855e026178836e2a9e05b0081ebbc3b479/pr-8369--before-first-app-launch.png)

Authenticated HTTP avatar fetching and persistent HTTP cache reuse also
passed on the SE. The first notification downloaded a relay thumbnail.
After terminating the extension and expiring its separate avatar entry,
the next notification displayed the avatar and refreshed that entry
without another media request in the relay logs. The main app remained
unopened throughout. The original app build and test profile were
restored afterward.

Automated tests cover slow and failed requests, stale images, removal,
and account revocation; those cases have not all been exercised on the
phone.

### Before merge

- [x] Verify authenticated HTTP avatar fetching and cache reuse on iOS
against a working relay media service.

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Signed-off-by: Tom Brow <tomb@block.xyz>
2026-10-15 11:16:04 -07:00
Tom Brow
b8aa0233f9 perf(mobile): verify notification cache events in background (#7650)
On iOS, Buzz stores verified profile and channel information for the
notification extension. The extension uses this cache to show sender and
channel names. Loading profiles or channels also updates the cache.

Cache updates currently check event signatures on the UI thread, even
when the caller does not wait for the update. This can delay taps and
screen updates. This change moves those checks to a background worker.
Signature checks, event selection, community boundaries, and the order
of native writes are preserved.

The worker accepts up to eight batches. When it is busy, later profile
requests stay coalesced before fetching; profiles already loaded remain
available immediately. Overlapping channel updates trigger a fresh
joined-channel cache snapshot after the current export finishes, without
delaying or restarting the channel screen. Queue saturation gets up to
five retries per operation. Pending updates get their own recovery
attempt even if the preceding export fails. Recovery fetches
joined-channel data once and retries cache admission without repeating
relay reads. It does not fetch the open-channel directory. Verified
payloads are split into native-sized writes (256 profiles or 512 paired
channels), keeping the same export ordering. Native profile/channel
write failures retry the same verified chunk while retaining the
export's queue position. All chunks share five retries with 7.75 seconds
total backoff; other native errors fail immediately. Terminal failures
are recorded, and later successful writes do not hide them. Captured
batches keep their original community. Pending channel refetches are
retired on a community switch and refreshed when the user returns. The
cache remains best effort; prolonged failures can still prevent
delivery.

Tests through the production APIs reduced UI delay from 27–31 ms to
below 0.3 ms for four profiles, and from 59–60 ms to below 0.3 ms for
four channel and membership pairs. The native payloads were identical.
This does not measure overall screen speed.

Validation: 2,225 mobile tests passed (one skipped), along with 18
focused export tests, 12 recovery tests, 39 native Swift tests, 35
focused profile tests, and static analysis. Production regressions cover
13-entity bursts, invalid newer events, community rebuilds, reentrant
refreshes, and terminal failures. Regression tests fail when producer
recovery controls, terminal-failure draining, or member-only recovery
scope are removed.

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Signed-off-by: Tom Brow <tomb@block.xyz>
2026-09-15 23:01:46 +00:00