**Category:** improvement **User Impact:** Mobile readers can jump directly to their oldest unread message and return to the latest message with compact directional controls. **Problem:** Opening an active channel at its newest message makes it easy to miss where unread conversation began, while moving back through history lacks a lightweight route to the live edge. **Solution:** Capture the channel's unread boundary when it opens, offer an accessible up-chevron beneath the app bar to reach that stable target, then reveal the inverse down-chevron at the bottom whenever the reader is away from latest. Deep links retain precedence, and live-follow, pagination, composer resizing, and explicit scroll ownership continue to use the existing timeline behavior. <details> <summary>File changes</summary> **mobile/lib/features/channels/channel_detail_page.dart** Captures the channel's read state at open time and passes a stable unread snapshot into the timeline before the normal deferred read update advances it. **mobile/lib/features/channels/channel_detail_page/message_list.dart** Adds mutually exclusive oldest-unread and latest navigation, with accessible icon controls positioned at opposite edges of the message surface while preserving existing follow and deep-link behavior. **mobile/test/features/channels/channel_detail_page_test.dart** Covers the unread target, compact inverse controls, accessible tooltips, and placement beneath the frosted app bar. </details> ## Reproduction steps 1. Open a Flutter mobile channel that has unread messages without entering through a message or thread deep link. 2. Confirm an up-chevron appears directly below the channel app bar while the timeline remains at latest. 3. Tap the up-chevron and confirm the timeline scrolls to the oldest message that was unread when the channel opened. 4. Confirm the unread control is replaced by a down-chevron at the bottom of the timeline. 5. Tap the down-chevron and confirm the timeline returns to latest and resumes following new messages. ## Screenshots | At latest — up-chevron to oldest unread | Away from latest — down-chevron to latest | |---|---| |  |  | _Real iPhone 17 Pro Simulator captures from the neutral `buzz-mobile-scroll-to` channel._ Originating Buzz thread: `buzz://message?channel=5b16c478-22d8-4ddd-951a-6036e19b81ff&id=6a78af32d7ac6f531b182c4e70dd5a04c503a2dab2ce2c0c74b2c6baa5921741&thread=6a78af32d7ac6f531b182c4e70dd5a04c503a2dab2ce2c0c74b2c6baa5921741` --------- Signed-off-by: Taylor Ho <taylorkmho@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: npub1223z34hd7vtwc6qj4s7flsxkj644nlre2nthu7lrrmkumhu3xddsrx9r6w <52a228d6edf316ec6812ac3c9fc0d696ab59fc7954d77e7be31eedcddf91335b@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz> Co-authored-by: npub1223z34hd7vtwc6qj4s7flsxkj644nlre2nthu7lrrmkumhu3xddsrx9r6w <52a228d6edf316ec6812ac3c9fc0d696ab59fc7954d77e7be31eedcddf91335b@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
Buzz Mobile
Flutter mobile client for Buzz.
Setup
cd mobile
flutter pub get
Run
# From repo root (recommended — starts Docker, relay, and simulator):
just mobile-dev
# Direct (requires services and relay already running):
cd mobile && flutter run
Worktree-aware debug identity
Debug builds produced from a git worktree get a unique app identifier keyed
to the worktree directory name (com.buzz.buzzMobile.<slug> on iOS,
xyz.block.buzz.mobile.<slug> on Android) plus a display-only branch label
in the app name (Buzz (my-branch), or a short SHA when the worktree is
detached). Because the identifier follows the directory rather than the
branch, one worktree keeps exactly one installed app — and its login state —
across branch switches, and builds from multiple worktrees install side by
side, mirroring the desktop dev experience. Release and profile builds
always keep the production identity and name.
just mobile-dev and just mobile-build-android apply this automatically by
running scripts/mobile-worktree-overrides.sh, which writes two gitignored
files:
mobile/ios/Flutter/WorktreeOverrides.xcconfig(included by Debug builds only; a developer'sAppOverrides.xcconfigis included after it, so app-specific overrides like a personalBUNDLE_IDENTIFIERfor device signing always win)mobile/android/worktree.properties(read by the debug build type only)
For direct Xcode / Android Studio / flutter run development, run
./scripts/mobile-worktree-overrides.sh from the repo root once per branch
switch to refresh the display label (the install identity never changes);
the persisted files are then picked up by any subsequent build. In the main
checkout the script is a no-op that removes stale override files, restoring
the plain Buzz identity.
To remove leftover worktree-suffixed installs from booted iOS simulators and
connected Android emulators, run just mobile-clean (add --dry-run via
./scripts/mobile-worktree-clean.sh --dry-run to preview). Production
installs are never touched.
Checks
dart format --output=none --set-exit-if-changed .
flutter analyze
flutter test
Or from the repo root: just mobile-check and just mobile-test.
Android release signing
Android release builds fail unless all upload-key inputs are supplied through the environment:
BUZZ_ANDROID_UPLOAD_KEYSTORE_PATH: path to a CI-vended keystore fileBUZZ_ANDROID_UPLOAD_KEYSTORE_PASSWORDBUZZ_ANDROID_UPLOAD_KEY_ALIASBUZZ_ANDROID_UPLOAD_KEY_PASSWORD
The keystore path must be absolute, and the keystore must remain outside the repository. Development and debug builds do not require these variables.
Release pipelines that sign through the central APK Signer service instead of
a local upload keystore must set BUZZ_ANDROID_RELEASE_SIGNING=external. That
mode produces an unsigned release bundle and refuses to run if any
BUZZ_ANDROID_UPLOAD_* value is also set.
Architecture
lib/
├── main.dart # Entry point, Riverpod bootstrap
├── app.dart # MaterialApp with theme
├── shared/
│ └── theme/ # Catppuccin light/dark, spacing tokens, extensions
└── features/
└── home/ # Placeholder home surface
- State management: Riverpod + Hooks (
HookConsumerWidget) - Theme: Catppuccin Latte (light) / Macchiato (dark) — matches desktop
- Spacing:
Gridtokens for consistent spacing - Linting:
flutter_lints+riverpod_lintviacustom_lint - Feature isolation: No cross-feature imports except
shared/