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feat(android): draw the trip over an offline street map - #139

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The last Phase 3 piece: the tracking screen now draws the trip over a real street map that works with no signal. Once the driver signs in, the app downloads the agency's map file from the URL #138 added, keeps it on the phone, and checks once a day whether the agency has published a newer one. With no MAP_PMTILES_URL the map stays as it is today, on a plain background.

How it works, one commit each:

  • A fix first: LocationComponent.applyStyle() quietly resets the map's padding, so since feat(android): draw the trip on a map in the tracking screen #133 the vehicle dropped to the middle of the map whenever it left or rejoined the route. It now stays a third of the way up.
  • The app asks GET /api/v1/map where the file is, and downloads it in the background on any connection, with a small "Downloading map" note on the map until it is done.
  • The street style is generated from @protomaps/basemaps 5.7.2 by android/map-style/generate.mjs and committed with the fonts and icons it needs, so the build needs no Node. It adds 0.5 MB to the APK (now 20.75 MB).
  • The map switches to streets once the file is there, with the route above the roads and below the street names, and the OpenStreetMap credit its licence asks for.
  • Docs: how an agency makes and hosts the file (deployment §12.6), and a new smoke test check.

Why some of it is the way it is:

  • The file goes in noBackupFilesDir. The app is backed up to the cloud, and a map over Android's 25 MB backup limit would stop everything else from being backed up.
  • A file a map has open is never replaced or deleted, because MapLibre crashes when that happens (maplibre-native #3658). A newer version downloads under a new name and is used the next time the screen opens; old files go when the app next starts.
  • Downloads resume with Range and If-Range, use their own HTTP client so the driver's token never goes to the file's host, and are checked before use: the first bytes as they arrive, then the file's own header against its length.
  • Only network failures are retried on a timer (5 s, doubling to 5 min). A phone that is too full, or a file that is not a map, waits for the next time the app opens, so a broken setup cannot keep spending the driver's data.

Street labels are Latin-only for now: English names, or the local name when it's written in Latin letters. Showing local scripts like Hindi or Marathi needs a font for each script, about 6.6 MB each, so I'd do that as a follow-up, maybe downloading the fonts with the agency's map file. Happy to change course if you'd rather. The generator is also the repo's first Node project; if you'd rather not have it, I can replace it with a README that lists the steps.

Testing: 318 unit tests (95 new), and each safety rule above has a test that fails when I break the rule on purpose. On the emulator with a local server and file host: first download with the note, a download cut off and resumed from where it stopped, airplane mode, an update, the URL removed, a full phone, dark mode, the R8 release build, and the 17 instrumented tests. I have not tried it on a real low-end phone yet.

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Walkthrough

The Android app now downloads optional PMTiles street maps, stores and checks them for updates, and renders them beneath route information. The change adds map API integration, local map styles and assets, tracking-screen status, tests, asset-generation tooling, and deployment instructions.

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Offline street-map flow

Layer / File(s) Summary
Map endpoint and sign-in refresh
android/app/src/main/kotlin/org/onebusaway/vehicletracker/data/api/*, android/app/src/main/kotlin/org/onebusaway/vehicletracker/data/map/MapServer.kt, android/app/src/main/kotlin/org/onebusaway/vehicletracker/data/map/RefreshWhenSignedIn.kt, android/app/src/main/kotlin/org/onebusaway/vehicletracker/MainActivity.kt, related map-server and sign-in tests
The API exposes an optional PMTiles URL. TrackerMapServer maps API responses to map outcomes. MainActivity starts map refresh collection while resumed, and refresh runs when the session is signed in.
PMTiles download and local storage
android/app/src/main/kotlin/org/onebusaway/vehicletracker/data/map/MapFileDownloader.kt, MapFileStore.kt, MapFileState.kt, related downloader, storage, and state tests
Downloads use HTTP validators and byte ranges to support unchanged-file checks and resume partial files. The downloader checks free space and PMTiles file structure before promoting completed files. MapFileStore persists map records and removes unlisted files.
Map refresh lifecycle and wiring
android/app/src/main/kotlin/org/onebusaway/vehicletracker/data/map/MapRepository.kt, android/app/src/main/kotlin/org/onebusaway/vehicletracker/di/AppModule.kt, repository tests, docs/configuration.md, docs/deployment.md, docs/android-smoke-test.md
MapRepository loads stored maps, checks for updates, manages retries and partial downloads, and publishes map state. Dependency providers connect its server, store, and downloader. The documentation describes map hosting, configuration, and smoke-test steps.
Generated map styles and bundled assets
android/app/src/main/assets/map/*, android/map-style/*, android/app/build.gradle.kts, .gitignore, map asset tests
The app includes light and dark Protomaps styles, sprites, fonts, and license files. The generator uses pinned inputs and applies the Latin-label and font settings. Asset tests check style references, glyphs, sprites, and licenses.
Tracking-screen map rendering
android/app/src/main/kotlin/org/onebusaway/vehicletracker/ui/map/*, android/app/src/main/kotlin/org/onebusaway/vehicletracker/ui/tracking/*, android/app/src/main/res/values/strings.xml, related UI tests
The tracking screen passes map state to RouteMap. The map shows download and failure notes, loads a street style when a map file is ready, and restores route rendering after style changes.

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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant MainActivity
  participant SessionStore
  participant MapRepository
  participant TrackerMapServer
  participant TrackerApi
  participant MapFileDownloader
  participant MapFileStore
  MainActivity->>SessionStore: Collect session updates
  SessionStore->>MapRepository: Trigger refresh when signed in
  MapRepository->>TrackerMapServer: Ask for map configuration
  TrackerMapServer->>TrackerApi: GET api/v1/map
  TrackerApi-->>TrackerMapServer: Return optional PMTiles URL
  TrackerMapServer-->>MapRepository: Return map result
  MapRepository->>MapFileDownloader: Fetch or resume PMTiles file
  MapFileDownloader-->>MapRepository: Report progress and fetch result
  MapRepository->>MapFileStore: Save map record
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 044fb

Map loading and storage failures should be contained before merging. The app can also keep showing a removed map or miss updates during continuous use.

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Review comments at
@android/app/src/main/kotlin/org/onebusaway/vehicletracker/data/map/MapRepository.kt:
- Around line 79-85: Update check() as used by keepTrying() to catch
non-cancellation failures such as store.save() IOException and classify them as
non-retryable rather than NETWORK; rethrow CancellationException unchanged.
Preserve keepTrying()’s existing retry behavior for Outcome.RETRY so a later
refresh() can start a new check.

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@android/app/src/main/kotlin/org/onebusaway/vehicletracker/MainActivity.kt:
- Around line 54-57: Update the map refresh flow started by
`refreshWhenSignedIn` so it schedules another check after `CHECK_EVERY_S` while
the activity remains resumed and the driver stays signed in. Keep the existing
refresh behavior on sign-in and ensure a completed `MapRepository` check does
not end the periodic due-check scheduling.

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@android/app/src/main/kotlin/org/onebusaway/vehicletracker/ui/map/RouteMap.kt:
- Around line 299-310: In RouteMap.loadStyle, clear the stored style reference
before calling setStyle so render() returns early while the replacement style
loads. Keep style assignment in onStyleLoaded to resume rendering once the new
style is ready.
- Around line 282-297: Update RouteMap.useStreets to clear the active street
file and reload the plain style when called with null, while leaving the file on
disk; retain the guard against replacing a non-null active file. In loadStyle,
reject callbacks whose captured file no longer matches streetFile so an older
style load cannot override the removal.

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- Line 82: Update the output flow in generate.mjs to fetch and generate assets
in a sibling staging directory while leaving OUT untouched. After generation
succeeds, preserve OUT as a backup, install the staged output, and restore the
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This is careful work. Resumable downloads with If-Range, a client that never carries the driver token, magic-byte and length checks, crash-safe swaps, and broad tests. The licensing and attribution are handled too. Two follow-ups, not blockers. The "will retry" note also shows for INVALID_FILE, which isn't retried for 24h, so a misconfigured URL looks like a network blip. And a plain-http map URL loops on release builds. Please test on a real low-end device before release.

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aaronbrethorst merged commit 61b5908 into OneBusAway:main Oct 11, 2026
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