Alby96andClaude Opus 5
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Introduces the RadarSource seam and the manifest it speaks, plus the demo frames that make the app runnable with no network and no credentials. MockRadarSource is a real adapter rather than test scaffolding, and that is what makes the rest of milestone 3 testable: the timeline, prefetching, cache eviction and every degraded path can be exercised offline because the demo frames parse the same manifest document the Python worker will publish. Its assets come from tool/generate_mock_frames.py — committed so the app runs from a clone, generated by a script so they can be regenerated instead of hand-edited. Twenty-four 512x512 frames total 108 KB, and the generator is pure standard library so nobody needs Pillow to build the app. The manifest parser rejects three things that would otherwise fail silently and look plausible: - A CRS other than EPSG:3857. The map overlays each PNG on a lat/lng quad, which only lines up if the image is already in Web Mercator; anything else renders visibly skewed with no error to explain why. - A missing attribution. The frames are a derived product of CC BY-SA data, so the credit has to travel with them rather than be remembered at render time. - Legend stops that do not ascend, which would silently mislabel intensities. The legend travels in the manifest rather than living as a constant here, because the worker chose those colours when it rendered the PNGs and a local copy could drift. RadarLegend.colorFor returns null below the lowest stop: "no precipitation" has to be transparent, not the first colour of the ramp, or a dry region renders as drizzle everywhere. Every failure reaches the caller as a single RadarUnavailableException regardless of cause, because the app's response is the same in all of them — hold the last good frame and say how old it is — and branching on cause would only invite divergence. ArpaRadarSource is a stub whose every method throws. It is named by the region config as unavailable and must fail loudly: quietly serving something else would misreport where the data came from. Verified: analyze clean, 95 tests passing, including a check that every frame the manifest lists exists and is a real PNG, and that its bbox matches the region config. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Nuvolari
Precipitation radar for Piedmont, Italy. Android first, iOS later, one Flutter codebase.
Radar imagery comes from the public Radar-DPC platform, forecasts from MET Norway, weather alerts from the ARPA Piemonte XML-CAP bulletin. The app is free and ad-supported, with GDPR consent through Google's UMP.
Nuvolari is an independent app. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by ARPA Piemonte or the Dipartimento della Protezione Civile. For civil-protection purposes the official channels always prevail.
Layout
app/ Flutter application (Dart package "nuvolari")
backend/ Python worker: fetches DPC rasters, crops, reprojects, renders PNG frames
docs/ architecture, data sources, licenses, stack decisions, roadmap, privacy
tool/ verification scripts
Start with docs/architecture.md, then docs/roadmap.md for what is built and what is next.
Toolchain
| Tool | Version |
|---|---|
| Flutter | 3.47.3 stable (Dart 3.13.3) |
| Android SDK | platform 36, build-tools 36.0.0, platform-tools |
| JDK | 21 |
| Python | 3.12+ (3.14 works; rasterio ships wheels for it) |
| Android NDK | 28.2.13676358 — pinned by maplibre_gl, not by this project |
A full toolchain plus a warm Gradle cache needs roughly 14 GB of disk: Flutter
3 GB, Android SDK 2.5 GB (2 GB of which is the NDK the map plugin pins), the Gradle
cache 5 GB, and build output around 2 GB. flutter clean reclaims the last of those.
Configuration
Secrets never enter the repository. Copy the template and fill it in:
cp env.example.json env.json # env.json is git-ignored
| Key | Purpose |
|---|---|
MAP_STYLE_URL |
MapLibre style URL. Empty falls back to a local offline style. |
RADAR_MANIFEST_URL |
Base URL of the published manifest.json. |
RADAR_SOURCE |
mock (offline demo), dpc (live), arpa (disabled stub). |
METNO_USER_AGENT_CONTACT |
Contact address for the MET Norway User-Agent — mandatory for forecasts. |
ADMOB_APP_ID, ADMOB_BANNER_UNIT_ID |
Empty means Google's test ad units are used. |
Running
cd app
flutter run --dart-define-from-file=../env.json
With no env.json the app starts in demo mode: mock radar frames from assets, offline
base map style, test ad units. No network and no credentials required.
Verifying
.\tool\verify.ps1 # format, analyze, test, build, lint, pytest
.\tool\verify.ps1 -SkipBuild # fast inner loop
Stages whose target does not exist yet are skipped, so this runs from day one.
Attribution
Radar-DPC (CC BY-SA) · MET Norway (CC BY 4.0) · Arpa Piemonte · © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). See docs/licenses.md for the obligations these carry — in particular, the rendered radar frames are a derived product of CC BY-SA data and inherit share-alike.