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@happyvertical/smrt-mobile

Kotlin Multiplatform shared mobile foundation for s-m-r-t apps: offline pack model + integrity, pack i18n resolution, durable evidence uploads, shared presenter state, app-shell state, and platform adapter contracts. Android consumes the module directly; iOS consumes the exported SmrtMobile framework.

Design and rationale: ADR 0001 and its extraction plan. Epic: happyvertical/smrt#1745. Agent/developer guidance: AGENTS.md. Codegen companion: @happyvertical/smrt-mobile-contract.

Phase 0 decision record (locked with the framework owner, 2026-07-01)​

  1. Monorepo placement — packages/smrt-mobile (+ packages/smrt-mobile-contract, later smrt-android/smrt-ios) with package.json wrappers so pnpm/turbo/knowledge tooling see them (amaru precedent).
  2. Distribution — deferred. All consumers (amaru, anytown, ergot) are on local filesystems: v0 consumption is Gradle includeBuild/path and, for iOS, a local-path Package.swift later. Coordinates locked now: Maven group com.happyvertical.smrt, namespace com.happyvertical.smrt.mobile. Constraint recorded: remote git-source SPM cannot target a monorepo subdirectory — remote iOS distribution later means XCFramework releases or a mirror repo.
  3. Durable store — SQLDelight (Phase 2): KMP-common typed store; the JVM driver keeps queue tests fast and SDK-free on CI.
  4. CI posture — three lanes: (a) PR default validate:shell (no toolchain), (b) path-filtered real gradle build + KMP unit tests when this package changes, (c) nightly/on-demand full lane incl. macOS for iOS-target compilation. Gradle wrapper checked in.
  5. Server contract — /api/mobile (server-brokered PKCE, session bootstrap, multipart upload with clientCaptureId/Idempotency-Key dedup) is part of the foundation: s-m-r-t ships reusable handlers in smrt-users (issue #1748); app-owned bootstrap data is nested under the contract's extras field.
  6. Toolchain — Kotlin 2.4.0 / AGP 9.2.1 / Gradle 9.6.1 / compileSdk 36 / minSdk 26 / JVM 21 / iOS deployment target 17.0. The Compose package pins Compose BOM 2026.06.01 and Activity Compose 1.13.0.

Building​

pnpm validate:shell     # structure checks (what CI runs on every PR)
./gradlew jvmTest       # common logic tests on the JVM target (no Android SDK)
./gradlew build         # full compile + tests (JDK 21; Android SDK for androidTarget;
                        # iOS targets compile on macOS hosts only)

Toolchain requirements: run Gradle on a JDK between 17 and 24 (the module's language/toolchain level is 21 -- jvmToolchain(21)); Gradle 9.6.1 ships via the checked-in wrapper, so always invoke ./gradlew. androidTarget needs an Android SDK (ANDROID_HOME); the jvm target exists precisely so common logic tests run without one. iOS targets require a macOS host with Xcode.

Consuming (v0, local filesystem)​

Distribution is deferred (decision 2). Android/KMP consumers use a Gradle composite build. Resolve the s-m-r-t checkout from a Gradle property first, an environment variable second, and a sibling checkout as the local default:

// settings.gradle.kts of the consuming app
val smrtFoundationDir = providers.gradleProperty("smrtFoundationDir")
    .orElse(providers.environmentVariable("SMRT_FOUNDATION_DIR"))
    .orElse("../smrt")
    .get()
val smrtFoundation = file(smrtFoundationDir)

includeBuild(smrtFoundation.resolve("packages/smrt-mobile"))
// Include this only when consuming the Compose package.
includeBuild(smrtFoundation.resolve("packages/smrt-android"))

Then depend on com.happyvertical.smrt:smrt-mobile and, when needed, com.happyvertical.smrt:smrt-android. Do not hard-code workstation-absolute paths in a consuming repository. AGP 9 provides built-in Kotlin, so Android consumers must not apply org.jetbrains.kotlin.android; they must also request TargetJvmEnvironment.ANDROID on resolvable configurations. The complete snippet is in smrt-android's README.

CI checks out both repositories and points Gradle at the foundation checkout:

- uses: actions/checkout@v4
- uses: actions/checkout@v4
  with:
    repository: happyvertical/smrt
    ref: ${{ vars.SMRT_FOUNDATION_REF }} # Set to an immutable release tag.
    path: smrt-foundation
    token: ${{ secrets.FOUNDATION_REPO_TOKEN }}
- run: ./gradlew test
  env:
    SMRT_FOUNDATION_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/smrt-foundation

For a private cross-organization checkout, FOUNDATION_REPO_TOKEN must be a GitHub App token or fine-grained PAT with read access to happyvertical/smrt. Set the SMRT_FOUNDATION_REF repository variable to the exact release tag the consumer has validated. iOS apps link the SmrtMobile static framework produced by the iOS targets (wired end-to-end in Phase 6, #1743).

Shared presenter state​

Put cross-platform orchestration in a KMP presenter derived from MobileStatePresenter<T>. Compose collects presenter.state as a normal StateFlow; SwiftUI owns a MobileObservableState(holder:) from SmrtIos and reads its published value. Close presenters when their owning scope is destroyed, and call close() on an adapter when observation must end early.

Durable evidence multipart​

Queue an encoded EvidenceMultipartUpload, which stores form fields and EvidenceAssetRef metadata without copying media bytes into the SQLDelight row. Decode it inside the suspend HttpQueueSender mapper and call toQueueHttpRequest(EvidenceByteSource { ... }); the platform byte source loads each local file when the queue actually flushes. smrt-android ships AndroidEvidenceByteSource; smrt-ios ships FoundationEvidenceByteSource, whose Kotlin/Native bridge uses one bulk copy rather than per-byte calls.

Session bootstrap extensions​

App-domain bootstrap payloads belong inside MobileSessionBootstrap.extras. Configure them with createMobileAuthHandlers({ buildExtras }) on the server. Unknown top-level fields such as dashboard are outside the contract and are ignored by the Kotlin decoder, so they cannot be used as an extension point.

Layout​

  • src/commonMain/kotlin/.../contract/ — generated framework contract (support types, pack localization, /api/mobile auth/session/device DTOs); owned by @happyvertical/smrt-mobile-contract, regenerate with pnpm --filter @happyvertical/smrt-mobile-contract generate:framework.
  • .../i18n/ — PackTextResolver (requested → fallback → source locale).
  • .../packs/ — pack snapshot identity + SHA-256 integrity seal.
  • .../evidence/ — evidence asset refs, geo sidecar, capture adapter seam, and durable multipart payload/byte-source helpers.
  • .../state/ — shared StateFlow holder and presenter base for Compose and SwiftUI observation.
  • .../shell/ — MobileShellState manual-tab navigation state.
  • .../platform/ — platform seams (Sha256Hasher).

Roadmap (epic #1745)​

  • Phase 2 (#1739) — landed: durable offline write-queue + pack store (SQLDelight), carrying reporter's semantics: single-flight coalesced flush, attempt cap, uploading → pending crash recovery, idempotency keys.
  • Phase 3 (#1740) — landed: PKCE/OIDC session module (MobileSessionManager) with platform browser/deep-link/secure-storage seams.
  • Phase 3.5 (#1748) — landed: /api/mobile server handlers in smrt-users.
  • Phase 4 (#1741) — landed: shared Ktor client (MobileApiClient + HttpQueueSender): bearer everywhere, multipart with idempotency keys, 401 hook, queue flush end-to-end.
  • Phases 5–6 (#1742/#1743) — landed: smrt-android (Compose) and smrt-ios (SwiftUI + real KMP framework wiring).
  • Phase 7 (#1744): rebuild amaru FieldOps and anytown reporter on the foundation — the trade-neutrality acceptance test.