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WHC 7299f39245 v0.9.4: a turn keeps running when the app is not on screen
A phone freezes an app it cannot see, and the front end had nothing holding
it: a turn that took minutes -- a long shell command, a provider that thinks,
a build -- stopped quietly the moment the user pressed home, and the answer
was only there if the window happened to come back. The engine's own /attach
flow made this visible: an APK turn survived, a pocket did not.

- app/android/src/xyz/whcself/cstagent/CstService.java: a foreground service
  started with an explicit component (nothing outside the app can reach it,
  no intent filter) for as long as a turn runs. Being a foreground service
  makes the process one Android neither freezes nor kills; a partial wake
  lock (30 min ceiling) keeps the CPU awake with the screen off. Its ongoing
  notification says what is running -- "CST-agent is working" plus the first
  line of the prompt -- on the same cst-agent channel the notification_send
  tool uses, and taps back into the app. A phone that refuses the foreground
  start (Android 12+ does, from the background) loses the protection, not the
  turn: the failure is caught and the service stops itself.
- Manifest: FOREGROUND_SERVICE, FOREGROUND_SERVICE_DATA_SYNC (API 34+ wants
  the typed one) and WAKE_LOCK, plus the <service> with
  foregroundServiceType="dataSync". The first build of this failed with
  "Expected '>', but got ' '" -- a manifest comment cannot contain "--".
- Front end: app::holdForeground(text) / app::releaseForeground() in
  ToolProvider.h, one call for every platform -- Android starts and stops the
  service through JNI, a desktop has nothing to hold (its window is the app).
  AgentCore::send() calls it when the turn starts (firstLine() of the prompt
  is what the notification says) and finishTurn() releases it, so the
  notification exists exactly as long as the work does. CST_APP_NO_SERVICE=1
  keeps a test run from touching the phone.
- On the NX789J, with the app sent home and the screen off: the service read
  back isForeground=true with its notification, the wake lock cst-agent:turn
  was taken at the start of the turn and dropped at its end, run_shell
  "sleep 60" finished with the screen dark, and the service was gone after.

Desktop: build clean, --uitest all green, --selftest and cst-app-selftest OK
(the hold is a no-op there, so nothing about the Qt side changed).

Version 0.9.4.
2026-10-11 16:51:39 +08:00

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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!-- The APK's manifest (QT_ANDROID_PACKAGE_SOURCE_DIR in app/CMakeLists.txt):
androiddeployqt copies this file and res/ into its gradle project and
fills in the INSERT_* placeholders below (version code and name, library
name, app arguments). An XML comment may not contain a double hyphen, so
the placeholder syntax is only spelled out in the attributes themselves.
The SDK levels are not here on purpose: they come from
QT_ANDROID_MIN_SDK_VERSION and QT_ANDROID_TARGET_SDK_VERSION in
app/CMakeLists.txt, and androiddeployqt writes them into the generated
gradle.properties. The app name and icon come from res/ next to this
file (values/strings.xml, drawable/ic_launcher.xml).
WHAT THIS APP IS: the engine runs in this process (no server, no port) and
writes everything (workspace, session store, settings, credentials) under
the app's own data directory, which main.cpp points the engine at (see
androidRoot() there).
Permissions: INTERNET for the providers the user configures,
POST_NOTIFICATIONS for the app's notification_send tool (Android 13+
asks at runtime; the tool stays hidden until it is granted), and the
foreground-service permissions with WAKE_LOCK for the service that keeps
a turn going while the phone is in a pocket (CstService.java). No
storage permission: the file picker is the system one (SAF) and its
input is copied into the app's directory. No cleartext traffic: every
provider URL is https. -->
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
package="xyz.whcself.cstagent"
android:installLocation="auto"
android:versionCode="-- %%INSERT_VERSION_CODE%% --"
android:versionName="-- %%INSERT_VERSION_NAME%% --">
<!-- %%INSERT_PERMISSIONS -->
<!-- %%INSERT_FEATURES -->
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.POST_NOTIFICATIONS" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE_DATA_SYNC" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WAKE_LOCK" />
<supports-screens
android:anyDensity="true"
android:largeScreens="true"
android:normalScreens="true"
android:smallScreens="true" />
<application
android:name="org.qtproject.qt.android.bindings.QtApplication"
android:label="@string/app_name"
android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
android:allowBackup="true"
android:hardwareAccelerated="true"
android:enableOnBackInvokedCallback="false">
<activity
android:name="org.qtproject.qt.android.bindings.QtActivity"
android:label="@string/app_name"
android:configChanges="orientation|uiMode|screenLayout|screenSize|smallestScreenSize|locale|layoutDirection|fontScale|keyboard|keyboardHidden|navigation|density|mcc|mnc"
android:launchMode="singleTop"
android:screenOrientation="unspecified"
android:exported="true"
android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize">
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter>
<meta-data
android:name="android.app.lib_name"
android:value="-- %%INSERT_APP_LIB_NAME%% --" />
<meta-data
android:name="android.app.arguments"
android:value="-- %%INSERT_APP_ARGUMENTS%% --" />
</activity>
<!-- The share tool hands a file out of the workspace, and a file
crossing an app boundary has to travel as a content:// uri. This
is Qt's own provider (androidx.core.content.FileProvider, paths
from res/xml/qtprovider_paths.xml): its files-path is the app's
files directory, which is where the workspace lives. -->
<provider
android:name="androidx.core.content.FileProvider"
android:authorities="${applicationId}.qtprovider"
android:exported="false"
android:grantUriPermissions="true">
<meta-data
android:name="android.support.FILE_PROVIDER_PATHS"
android:resource="@xml/qtprovider_paths" />
</provider>
<!-- A turn can outlive the screen: while one is running the front end
starts this service (AgentCore::send -> app::holdForeground), which
makes the process a foreground one, so Android neither freezes nor
kills it in the background, and takes a partial wake lock so the
CPU keeps going with the phone in a pocket. dataSync is the type
that fits "the app is finishing some work". -->
<service
android:name="xyz.whcself.cstagent.CstService"
android:exported="false"
android:foregroundServiceType="dataSync" />
</application>
</manifest>