[DoodleBears]

Requested by Vain · project thread

Why

The #2397 device check on an XS Max (Release build of main 9d0c4fb) delivered Communication Notifications with the right sender and #channel title, but every avatar was blank. The App Group container had no notification-avatars/ folder at all. So the avatar cache sync never got as far as its index write: either one render never settled, or the store couldn't be opened, and nothing recorded which.

Change outline

• Each avatar render now times out after 10 s. A timed-out render counts as a failure, so it no longer blocks the avatars after it, and it is retried on the 60 s cooldown.
• The index is written before any rendering, and again after each avatar, so finished avatars are kept even if a later one fails.
• Each sync writes status.json next to the index, with a timestamp and the error for each avatar that failed. If the App Group can't be opened, the status goes to notification-avatars-status.json in the app's documents folder. The device tester can read either file with devicectl.

Verification

• pnpm lint and pnpm typecheck pass. The avatar-cache tests pass (7), including two new ones: a render that never settles, and a store that can't be opened.
• A device recheck on the XS Max follows. If an avatar still fails, status.json names the cause.

Special things to note

This is JS only and ships over OTA or a rebuild. If the status shows the generated-SVG Bot avatars failing to rasterize on iOS, a follow-up will render them another way.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Improved notification avatar synchronization reliability.
  • Added a 10-second timeout for avatar rendering to prevent sync operations from hanging.
  • Successfully processed avatars are now preserved when individual renders fail.
  • Stale avatar files are removed during synchronization.
  • Synchronization now accurately reports incomplete or failed operations.
  • Added detailed error reporting for unreadable data, rendering failures, and completion issues.

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• apps/mobile/src/host/native-notification-avatars.ts
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📝 Walkthrough

Notification avatar synchronization now reports setup and render errors, times out stalled renders after 10 seconds, and returns false when errors occur. The native host stores timestamped status reports and avatar indexes.

Changes: Notification Avatar Synchronization

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Native avatar and status storage apps/mobile/src/host/native-notification-avatars.ts	The native host passes maximum width and height options to image loading. It uses a shared JSON writer for avatar indexes and status reports. Reports include a timestamp and errors, and use the host directory or a document-level fallback.
Synchronization and error reporting apps/mobile/src/host/notification-avatars.ts, apps/mobile/test/notification-avatars.test.ts	Synchronization catches store-read and avatar-generation failures, times out each render after 10 seconds, removes obsolete files, and writes the retained index before rendering. It reports errors and returns false when any occur. Tests cover a stalled render and a rejected store read.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 76355

A stalled avatar render can later overwrite a newer avatar and leave a wrong image that is not re-synced. Guard or cancel timed-out renders before merging. The status-report gap only affects diagnostics.

Pre-merge checks: 3 · 2

Failed checks: 2 warnings

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Description check		The description explains the problem, lists the main changes, and reports automated verification. It does not include the required CI test plan, and it does not clearly document merge risk or separate…	Add the selected CI test plan mode and any applicable scripts/ci-plan.mjs rule. Document reversibility, blast radius, and review focus. Separate completed automated checks from the planned XS Max recheck, and identify unrun runtime or QA ch…
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 6 functions across 3 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 3 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly describes the primary change: preventing mobile notification avatar synchronization from stalling.
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Explanation

The description explains the problem, lists the main changes, and reports automated verification. It does not include the required CI test plan, and it does not clearly document merge risk or separate completed verification from planned device validation.

Resolution

Add the selected CI test plan mode and any applicable scripts/ci-plan.mjs rule. Document reversibility, blast radius, and review focus. Separate completed automated checks from the planned XS Max recheck, and identify unrun runtime or QA checks.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @apps/mobile/src/host/native-notification-avatars.ts:
- Around line 85-87: The status-writing flow around hostDir(host) and writeJson
must fall back to Paths.document when the App Group write fails, not only when
hostDir returns undefined. Catch the failure from the dir-based write, then
attempt the existing documents-folder write while preserving the outer error
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Review comments at @apps/mobile/src/host/notification-avatars.ts:
- Line 139: Update the render flow around bounded and store.render so a
timed-out native render cannot commit after a later retry; make the render
cancellable or add a per-render generation/commit guard that permits only the
current render to write or delete the target, while preserving the existing
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iPhone XS Max: the avatars pass. This ran on a Release build of c28f9e8, paired over Tailscale. The app was kept open for about 30 s, and then a group reply and a Bot DM were pushed.

• Pass: the Bot DM shows Xiaoce's avatar.
• Pass: the group reply shows the green group avatar, with "#Review Room" as the title.
• Both are correct in light and dark.

Light	Dark

A separate finding, which doesn't block this PR: the small app icon badge at the avatar's bottom right is a blank white square. A plain notification from before this build also shows white where the app icon goes. I'm checking the built app's icon now.

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