**Category:** improvement
**User Impact:** Buzz channel, message, repository, pull request, and
issue links now display recognizable context and navigate reliably in
the mobile app.
**Problem:** Bare Buzz permalinks appeared as raw or ambiguous URLs on
mobile, while channel and message links were not handled consistently
across Markdown forms and startup states.
**Solution:** Normalize eligible bare Buzz URLs without consuming
Markdown syntax, render them as semantic icon-prefixed chips, and route
channel/message targets through the mobile deep-link dispatcher while
preserving authored Markdown labels as ordinary links.
<details>
<summary>File changes</summary>
**mobile/lib/features/channels/deep_link_dispatcher.dart**
Routes parsed channel and message links through the appropriate in-app
navigation callbacks.
**mobile/lib/features/channels/message_content.dart**
Presents all bare Buzz permalinks as semantic icon chips and keeps
authored labels as ordinary links.
**mobile/lib/features/channels/message_content/link_normalizer.dart**
Normalizes bare and autolinked Buzz URLs without consuming Markdown
delimiters, code, or punctuation.
**mobile/lib/shared/deeplink/deep_link.dart**
Adds strict channel and project-entity parsing alongside message deep
links.
**mobile/lib/shared/deeplink/pending_deep_link_provider.dart**
Preserves pending navigation until the mobile routing surface is ready.
**mobile/test/features/channels/channel_detail_page_test.dart**
Updates navigation integration coverage for icon-prefixed channel chips.
**mobile/test/features/channels/deep_link_dispatcher_test.dart**
Covers channel/message dispatch and missing-target behavior.
**mobile/test/features/channels/message_content/link_normalizer_test.dart**
Exercises Markdown-safe normalization across the full Buzz link suite.
**mobile/test/features/channels/message_content_test.dart**
Verifies chip labels, icons, semantics, authored-label opt-out, and
navigation callbacks.
**mobile/test/shared/deeplink/deep_link_test.dart**
Covers strict parsing for channel, message, repository, pull-request,
and issue links.
</details>
## Reproduction steps
1. Run the mobile app and open a channel containing bare
`buzz://channel`, `buzz://message`, `buzz://repo`, `buzz://pr`, and
`buzz://issue` URLs.
2. Confirm each bare URL renders as one cohesive chip with a type icon,
a useful name or shortened identifier, and no duplicated channel `#`
character.
3. Add an authored Markdown link such as `[design
discussion](buzz://issue?...)` and confirm the supplied label remains an
ordinary link rather than becoming a chip.
4. Select channel and message links and confirm they navigate correctly
from inline and autolinked forms.
## Screenshots / demos
**iOS Simulator — channel, message, repository, pull request, and issue
permalink chips**
Real app build (`37b2cb5eb`) running on an iPhone 17 Pro simulator.
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Signed-off-by: Taylor Ho <taylorkmho@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Wes <wesbillman@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Carl <acda9e433d19dcd0e6b6840f7f4b98f3a56f1fab98049d444c087019e6d36560@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
Co-authored-by: Wes <wesbillman@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Carl <c7ebe626f000404285d3686e1dc74cc07cc60a9754a150041ba132e14bd3e2ec@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
## Summary
- make mobile unread state visible with bold channel names, an animated
Inbox badge, and swipe-to-toggle Inbox rows
- add directional transitions for top-level mobile navigation
- let mobile send while media uploads, with cancellable progress UI
- normalize iOS and Android video uploads, attach poster frames, and
improve native video playback
## Validation
- `just mobile-check`
- `just mobile-test`
- `cargo test -p buzz-media`
- Pixel smoke test
- iPhone smoke test
Desktop background uploads moved to #4522 so the two platforms can be
reviewed independently.
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Signed-off-by: kenny lopez <klopez4212@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tom Brow <tomb@block.xyz>
Co-authored-by: leader <71e9f2c44a6932b6772caaaccda1911d010463c3e2c6c40410b8329956046801@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
Co-authored-by: Tom Brow <tomb@block.xyz>
## What
- group uploaded photos into full-width message carousels
- add a fullscreen viewer with pinch zoom, double-tap reset, swipe-down
dismissal, a centered filmstrip, and image actions
- preload nearby display-sized images for smoother swiping and keep each
upload as its own avatar-backed message
## Validation
- `just mobile-check`
- `flutter test test/features/channels/message_content_test.dart`
- iOS 26.5 simulator gesture pass
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Signed-off-by: kenny lopez <klopez4212@gmail.com>
