Device compatibility (regression fix):
- The CAMERA permission (from zxing_barcode_scanner / image_picker) implicitly
required android.hardware.camera, excluding camera-less devices — Play showed
Automotive -96%, Chromebook -86%, TV -25%. Declare camera & location
uses-feature required="false" to keep those devices supported.
- Detect a real camera at runtime (PackageManager.FEATURE_CAMERA_ANY via the
existing MethodChannel), cache it at bootstrap, and hide the QR scan button and
the camera photo-source option when absent, so no broken actions are offered.
Play "app optimization" recommendations:
- Enable R8 (isMinifyEnabled + isShrinkResources) with keep rules for the
OCR (tesseract4android), SQLCipher and notifications JNI/reflection code.
- Bitmap downscaling: cacheWidth/cacheHeight (and ResizeImage for avatars) on
list thumbnails and avatars so photos decode to on-screen size, not full res.
- Edge-to-edge: opt in with transparent system bars in main().
Release flow:
- Tagged builds now publish to the production track at 100% (was internal);
add a manual deploy_internal lane as a QA safety net.
- Document country/region availability as a Play Console setting (not in-repo).
Lower the bulk-digitization cliff with two more routes on top of the
already-landed CSV import and "save and add another":
- Photo-first drafts (capture now, catalogue later): burst-capture
photos (camera or multi-gallery) into unnamed draft varieties, shown
in a "to catalogue" tray, hidden from the main list until named.
Adds Variety.isDraft (schema), addDraftVariety/watchDrafts/nameDraft,
the triage sheet and the inventory banner.
- On-device OCR label suggestion (Tesseract, offline, no Google): a
"Suggest name from photo" button in the naming dialog behind a
LabelTextExtractor interface (Tesseract on Android/iOS, no-op
elsewhere). Reads the largest print via hOCR bounding boxes, drops
boilerplate/low-confidence noise, preprocesses (grayscale, contrast,
upscale) and sweeps rotations (0-315 deg) so tilted packets still
read. Bundles tessdata_fast eng+spa; validated on-device against real
packets. The photo is written to a temp file deleted immediately in a
finally block (the plugin needs a path) - a bounded, documented
exception to no-plaintext-at-rest.
This commit also carries the co-developed schema evolution v5 to v8 that
shares these files (organic flag, species viability years, crop
calendar, lot provenance/abundance/preservation format, condition
checks) plus their exports/migrations and i18n.
Tests: CSV/draft/OCR unit + widget + migration green in isolation.
Note: the full widget suite currently hangs (>10 min) - under investigation.
- Adding a photo (quick-add and detail) now offers a Camera / Gallery chooser
(shared pickPhoto helper); camera errors on desktop degrade gracefully.
- Full-screen viewer: pinch-to-zoom pans only while zoomed, so a plain
horizontal swipe pages between photos again.
54 tests green; Linux runs.
