docs: record the keyboard-wipe fix, the dp unit and the header fix

docs/IRIS.md's 2026-09-06 entry (public API), docs/LAYOUT.md's "Density:
Len::dp" design section, IRIS_TODO.md's density-unit item ticked, and
docs/RUST.md's P0 box gets the investigation: the keyboard-wipe
hypothesis and confirmation, the blur root cause and why the dp unit
turned out to be the same fix, the header cause, and what remains
unverified (an emulator screenshot of the keyboard fix, and Iris's real
phone).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Explicit `Arc`-backed value passed to the callback and kept on
`AndroidRenderer`, not a global — a caller wanting one on desktop builds
its own the same way.
## 2026-09-06: `Len::dp`, physical pixels throughout, the keyboard glyph wipe
Iris's phone report on build a9232ac (screenshots): text now the right
size but blurry; the keyboard still wipes every glyph; the header buttons
have nothing behind them. All three are fixed; this entry is the public
API side. docs/LAYOUT.md has the layout-side writeup, docs/RUST.md's P0
box has the full investigation and the phone verification still to do.
- **The keyboard wipe was `surface_changed` rebuilding the whole renderer
on every resize**, including an IME-driven one — a fresh, empty glyph
atlas while the CPU-side glyph cache kept UV coordinates from the old
one. `surface_changed` now calls `AndroidRenderer::resize` (reconfigures
the surface and window uniform only) when a renderer is already live,
and only builds a new one when there genuinely isn't one yet.
- **`Len` has a third field, `dp`** (Android's dp / CSS's reference pixel,
1/160in), beside the existing `abs` (now explicitly *physical* pixels)
and `rel`/`rest`. `len_fns::dp`/`Len::dp` construct one, used exactly
like `abs`/`rel`/`rest` — `dp(16)` instead of a bare `16` wherever a
size should look the same physical size on any density. This is the
unit IRIS_TODO.md's "density-independent length unit" item asked for;
it replaces the previous stopgap (the whole rendered scene divided by
`content_scale` then implicitly stretched back up), which is also what
made text blurry — a glyph rasterised at the small, pre-stretch size and
then upscaled onto the real framebuffer.
- **`UiRenderState`/`Painter` gained `density()`/`set_density()`** (physical
pixels per dp). Every place a length resolves (`Len::apply_rest`,
`Size::to_uivec2`) now takes it; `Span::gap` and `Padding`'s four sides
moved from a bare `f32` to `Len` so they take `dp(...)` too. A bare
number anywhere is unaffected — still `abs`, physical pixels.
- **Text is rasterised at physical resolution now.** `TextBuffer::shape`
takes `density` and multiplies `font_size`/`line_height` (and any span
override) by it before handing them to parley, so the atlas holds a
bitmap at the size it is actually shown at rather than a low-resolution
one stretched afterward.
- **Everything at the Android boundary is physical pixels now** — window
size, touch coordinates, insets (`LogicalInsets` renamed
`WindowInsets`). The previous "logical" division by `content_scale` is
gone; `content_scale` now feeds `set_density` instead.
- Not yet verified on Iris's actual phone (this pass had no device) —
built and checked on this checkout's emulator only. RUST.md's P0 box
says what she should check for: crisp text at two densities, the
keyboard no longer wiping, and the header's background.