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Alby96andClaude Opus 5 85b2c99949 Scaffold the Flutter app with Italian l10n and region configuration
Creates the app skeleton and the seam everything else in the project hangs
off: region-specific data lives in an asset file, not in code, so adding a
region later is a new JSON file rather than a refactor.

Notable choices:

- applicationId and namespace are it.nuvolari.app rather than the doubled
  it.nuvolari.nuvolari that `flutter create` produces, with the Kotlin package
  and the iOS bundle identifiers moved to match.
- SDK levels are pinned instead of inherited from `flutter.*`. Google Play
  requires API 36, and that is a release blocker rather than something to let a
  Flutter upgrade change silently. minSdk 24 is the highest floor the planned
  dependencies impose.
- Riverpod and Dio-free for now, no code generation: see docs/stack-decisions.md.
- Italian is the l10n source language, so app_it.arb is the template rather
  than a translation of an English original.

The region parser rejects rather than repairs. An inverted bounding box, a map
centre outside its own bounds, an unknown adapter name, a duplicate zone code
or an empty attribution list all throw with the offending field named. Each of
those would otherwise fail silently and visibly wrong: a swapped latitude and
longitude renders the radar in the wrong place, an unknown adapter falling back
to mock would show demo frames where live data was expected, and a missing
attribution is a licence violation rather than a cosmetic gap.

Tests run against the asset that actually ships and against a captured copy of
the live ARPA CAP feed, so the eleven zone codes in the config are checked
against the eleven the feed really emits rather than against a list retyped
from documentation.

Verified: dart format clean, flutter analyze 0 issues, 50 tests passing,
flutter build appbundle --debug produces an AAB with applicationId
it.nuvolari.app, minSdk 24, targetSdk 36.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-10 11:24:26 +02:00

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Roadmap

Each milestone ends with tool/verify.ps1 green and one commit. A milestone is not done until its acceptance criteria hold.

Legend: done · 🔨 in progress · blocked on credentials from the project owner


M0 — Toolchain and repository hygiene

Flutter 3.47.3 stable, Android SDK (platform-tools, platform 36, build-tools 36.0.0), JDK 21, environment variables. Commit the removal of the old Xamarin skeleton.

Accepts when: flutter doctor -v reports no blocking Android toolchain error and git status is clean.

Done. flutter doctor -v reports "No issues found!". Installed: Flutter 3.47.3 at C:\src\flutter (telemetry disabled), Android SDK at C:\Android\Sdk with platform 36, build-tools 36.0.0, platform-tools and all licences accepted, and JAVA_HOME pointing at the JDK 21 a previous Visual Studio install had already left on the machine.

M1 — Scaffold, Italian l10n, region config, CI 🔨

flutter create with applicationId it.nuvolari.app; flutter_localizations + intl with app_it.arb as template and no hardcoded UI strings; RegionConfig loaded from assets/regions/piemonte.json with parsing tests; .gitignore, env.example.json, tool/verify.ps1, .gitea/workflows/ci.yml.

Accepts when: flutter analyze reports 0 issues, flutter test passes, flutter build appbundle --debug succeeds.

The Gitea instance may have no Actions runner. The workflow file is written to be GitHub-Actions compatible, but tool/verify.ps1 is the verification that must pass.

M2 — Map, attribution, Sources screen

MapLibre with the style from MAP_STYLE_URL, falling back to a local minimal style. Permanent OSM/ODbL attribution. Sources / Licenses / Disclaimer screen covering Radar-DPC (CC BY-SA), MET Norway, ARPA, OSM, with the explicit "not an official app" disclaimer.

Accepts when: the map opens centred on Piedmont, attribution is visible at all times, and the Sources screen is reachable and complete.

M3 — Animation and timeline

RadarSource with MockRadarSource (synthetic frames in assets) and DpcRadarSource. Timeline scrubber, play/pause, adjacent-frame prefetch, FrameCache LRU, animation suspended in background, graceful degradation with a data-age banner.

Accepts when: animation runs smoothly in demo mode with the network off, and prefetch, LRU eviction and the fallback paths are covered by tests.

M4 — Forecast

MetNoForecastSource with the mandatory identifying User-Agent, honouring Expires and If-Modified-Since. IconIt2Source as a flagged fallback. Hourly and daily views.

Accepts when: a forecast renders for a Piedmont location, caching respects the response headers, and fixture-based tests pass.

UMP consent form before any ad request; non-personalised ads when consent is declined. Anchored adaptive banner — never over the map, never an interstitial during animation. Test ad unit IDs only until real ones are supplied.

Blocked on: AdMob App ID and ad unit IDs.

M6 — Rain notifications and alerts

ArpaCapAlertSource reading the CAP feed through the backend; zones Piem-APiem-M with levels shown verbatim and a link to the official bulletin. Rain notifications via FCM topics per geographic cell, subscribed from the device.

Blocked on: Firebase project and google-services.json.

M7 — Android home widget

Glance widget showing the latest frame and the next rain, refreshed by WorkManager.

Accepts when: the widget renders a real frame on the home screen and updates.

M8 — Backend worker

dpc_client (with the origin header), crop (bbox + reproject to EPSG:3857), palette (dBZ colormap, legend exported into the manifest), render (RGBA PNG, transparent below threshold), manifest, and publisher/ with LocalPublisher and S3Publisher. WebSocket trigger with cron fallback. pysteps nowcast present but disabled behind a flag.

Accepts when: python -m pytest passes and one full run produces PNGs plus a manifest.json that the app consumes from a local server.

Blocked on (publishing only): VPS / object storage endpoint and credentials. Development proceeds against LocalPublisher.

M9 — Play Store release preparation

Signing config reading key.properties, release AAB, target API 36, privacy policy draft, store listing copy, Data safety draft, prominent disclosure for location.

Blocked on: upload keystore and Play Console account.


Pending inputs from the project owner

Needed for Item
M2 (quality) MapTiler API key — until then the local fallback style is used
M5 AdMob App ID and ad unit IDs
M6 Firebase project and google-services.json
M8 VPS / object storage endpoint and credentials
M9 Play Console account and upload keystore