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Tom Brow 3764a2e4d5 perf(mobile): ask typing subscriptions only for the typing window (#9454)
Every channel that shows a typing indicator (the open channel, and each
Solo row on the home list) subscribes for typing and message events with
`limit: 10` and no `since`, so each subscribe replays that channel's
last 10 stored messages. The handler then ignores every one of them that
is older than the 8 second typing window, so the replay only costs
bytes. On an iPhone 12 mini signed in to Builderlab, seven Solo rows
made this about 66 KB of kind 9 messages on each cold start, and again
on each resubscribe.

The subscription now asks only for events inside the typing window
(`since` = now minus 8 s), which are the only ones the handler can act
on.

### Validation

New test: the typing subscription asks for history starting 8 s before
it subscribes. It fails without this change.

Full mobile test suite and `flutter analyze` pass.

On the iPhone 12 mini (profile build with this change, signed in to
Builderlab), stored and live events on the typing subscriptions in the
first minute or more after a cold start:

| | Subscriptions | Kind 9 messages | Typing events |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Before (60 s) | 7 | 74 (66.6 KB) | 26 (15.6 KB) |
| After (80 s) | 8 | 2 (1.5 KB) | 29 (17.8 KB) |

Typing events are mostly live ones from agents working in Solo chats, so
they stay about the same. The automated run covered a cold start to the
home list and its Solo rows.

### Regressions

- A device clock running more than 8 s fast can make the relay skip a
message that would have ended an indicator. That indicator still clears
when its 8 s window ends, and the handler already drops events it
considers older than the window, so the same skew loses the same events
today.

Signed-off-by: Tom Brow <tomb@squareup.com>
Co-authored-by: Tom Brow <tomb@squareup.com>
Co-authored-by: studio <dc2fc481343672df31a689840c09299972e704dac592e0da6f18486646a7ee3e@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
2026-11-13 14:40:17 -08:00
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