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irisandClaude Fable 5.1 d8562d96a3 iris android app: told which server by an enrol link, not by its build
The APK is cross-compiled here and run against the server on the host, so
everything build.rs baked in (AI_APP_TRANSCRIPT_HOST/_PORT/_TOKEN and this
machine's CA) was good for exactly the pair that built it -- and a token in
a delivered artifact besides. MainActivity registers aiapp://enroll, hands
the URI and the app's private files directory to Rust, and
client_core::config stores it 0600; transcript_client reads it afresh per
transport, so opening a new link repoints a running app.

Diagnostics says which of three things is true, because they want different
actions: 'enrolled: host:port', 'not enrolled -- open the enrol link from
Dev Updater', and 'enrolment unreadable: ...' for the case nothing could be
found out. The last is why status() has an Unknown arm at all.

ui-sandbox.sh's printed enrol command now carries the CA, which is what
makes it work for an app with no baked copy.

Verified on this checkout's emulator: fresh install reads 'not enrolled',
the intent enrols (log: 'enrolled with 10.0.2.2:8519', enrollment.json
-rw-------), Diagnostics then reads 'enrolled: 10.0.2.2:8519', and the CA
reconstructed from that link is byte-identical to the machine's ca.pem and
validates the server over curl. Android offered the chooser between this
app and the Compose one, which is the intended behaviour.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-07 16:45:51 -04:00
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iris

My experimental attempt at a rust ui library (also my first ui library).

It's currently designed around using retained data structures (widgets), rather than diffing generated trees from data like xilem or iced. This is an experiment and I'm not sure if it's a good idea or not.

Examples are in examples, eg. cargo run --example tabs.

Goals, in general order:

  1. does what I want it to (text, images, video, animations)
  2. very easy to use ignoring ergonomic ref counting
  3. reasonably fast / efficient (a lot faster than electron, save battery life, try to beat iced and xilem)

dev details

not targeting web rn cause wanna use actual nice gpu features & entire point of this is to make desktop apps / not need a web browser

general ideas trynna use rn / experiment with:

  • retained mode
  • specifically designed around wgpu so there's no translation
  • postfix functions for most things to prevent unreadable indentation (going very well)
  • events can be done directly where you draw the widgets
  • almost no macros in user code & actual LSP typechecking (variadic generics if you can hear me please save us)
  • relative anchor + absolute offset coord system (+ "rest" / leftover during widget layout)
  • single threaded ui & pass context around to make non async usage straightforward (pretty unsure about this)
  • widgets store outside of the actual rendering so they can be moved around and swapped easily (unsure about this but seems to work good for now)

under heavy initial development so not gonna try to explain status, maybe check TODO for that; sizable chance it gets a rewrite once I know everything I need and what seems to work best

it's called iris because it's the structure around what you actually want to display and colorful