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feat(home): refresh Home and boxlore branding - #1102

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Summary

Home is easier to scan, with clearer section headings, consistent discovery cards and a more compact Daily Mix. Updated colours and vector logos carry the new boxlore branding across the app and shared episode cards.

Motivation

The old Home presentation mixed card styles, inconsistent accents and oversized empty states. Artwork could also be missing in Daily Mix even when the episode detail page displayed it.

What changed

  • Give Home chapters distinct Material shapes, consistent header accents and clearer browse actions. Add time-of-day marks whose reveal waits for the full header; sun rays rotate gently and two night stars twinkle while visible.
  • Use a shared poster/featured card layout with matching loading geometry, centered short titles, font-scaled text and visible horizontal scrolling affordances. Remove the Home Video Spotlight module.
  • Refine Daily/Offline Mix artwork, duration chips, playback controls and progress indicators; collapse the caught-up Daily Mix state to its heading. Increase Your shows artwork resolution and enlarge the briefing masthead.
  • Refresh the classic light/dark palette, upright wordmarks, The boxlore brief and LORE assets. Keep the italic B/microphone app mark for adaptive launcher, splash and notification icons.
  • Use a smaller “Listen on” wordmark signature for story and message share cards, without the former slogan or wave decoration.
  • Add JVM regression coverage and update the affected module documentation. Include an ADB-only notification preview receiver in debug builds, protected by the system DUMP permission.

Behavior & compatibility

  • Existing playback, queues, recommendation ranking, navigation destinations, analytics contexts and storage identities are retained.
  • Existing shared media cards retain their default appearance unless Home explicitly opts into the new presentation.
  • The classic palette is used for the existing violet/classic selection; wallpaper colours and other selected accents continue through their existing resolution paths.
  • The launcher continues to use adaptive foreground/background and monochrome resources. Notification branding remains a monochrome small icon.

Impact

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  • backend-change

Listener impact

What changes in the user’s life:

Listeners can scan Home sections more easily, see sharper artwork and spend less screen space on an empty Daily Mix. The app and shared episode cards use consistent new branding.

Release copy

CHANGELOG.md

Changed

  • Refresh Home discovery headers, poster and featured cards, mix layouts and briefing presentation with Material 3 components and matching loading states.
  • Update classic light/dark colours, upright wordmarks, LORE and briefing graphics, adaptive launcher, splash and notification icons.
  • Replace share-card branding with a compact “Listen on” wordmark signature.

Fixed

  • Resolve mix artwork from episode and show metadata before falling back to the parent show image.
  • Collapse the caught-up Daily Mix state and center card titles with or without a progress indicator.

README What's New / Upcoming

Improvements

  • Browse Home with clearer sections, sharper artwork and refreshed Daily Mix cards.
  • Enjoy updated colours and logos, with time-of-day animations that wait until the heading is in view.
  • Share episodes with cleaner “Listen on boxlore” branding.

Fixes

  • Daily Mix now uses show artwork when an episode has none.
  • A caught-up Daily Mix takes up less space.

Test plan

  • Built and installed on the connected Android phone during Home iteration.
  • JVM coverage for card layout and interactions, phone widths, enlarged text, RTL, loading geometry, clipping-aware animation, both night stars, artwork fallback, colour contrast and share-card geometry.
  • Full local suite: 2,854 JVM tests with no failures; Detekt, Android lint, coverage and dependency checks passed. ktlint passed for app, designsystem and Home.
  • Required CI checks and review threads clear before merge.

Notes

The visual changes affect Home plus shared colours, brand assets and share-card footers. No feature module dependencies or backend contracts are added.

@ashwkun ashwkun added the user-impact-high Listeners clearly notice this change — prioritize README and notification label Oct 7, 2026
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  • feature/home/README.md
  • feature/home/src/main/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/feature/home/components/LibrarySection.kt
  • feature/home/src/main/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/feature/home/components/LibrarySectionMixtape.kt
  • feature/home/src/main/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/feature/home/components/MixTime.kt
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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Refreshed Home discovery with expressive recommendation cards, clearer section headers, genre filters, and animated time-of-day accents.
    • Updated mix cards with larger artwork, playback controls, progress indicators, and download badges.
    • Added debug-only notification previews.
  • Updates
    • Refreshed branding across the launcher, splash screen, navigation, and notifications.
    • Updated share-card layouts and classic theme colors.
  • Removals
    • Removed the Video Spotlight section from Home.

Walkthrough

The pull request updates app branding, classic theme palettes, share-card branding, and Home discovery and mix presentations. It adds expressive media-card components and tests. It also adds a debug-only notification preview receiver.

Changes

Brand and Home presentation refresh

Layer / File(s) Summary
Brand assets and navigation
app/src/main/res/drawable/*, app/src/main/res/values/*, core/designsystem/src/main/res/drawable/*, core/designsystem/.../BoxLoreNavigationBar.kt, core/designsystem/.../BoxLoreLogo.kt
Launcher, splash, and notification artwork and background colors are updated. Design-system logo assets and the Lore navigation mark are added or replaced.
Classic theme palettes
core/designsystem/.../theme/*, core/designsystem/src/test/.../theme/ClassicBrandColorsTest.kt
Light and dark classic palettes are added and applied during theme resolution and generation. Tests check palette values, mode selection, surface colors, and contrast.
Share-card branding
core/designsystem/.../share/ShareCardRenderer.kt, core/designsystem/src/main/res/values/strings.xml, core/designsystem/src/test/.../share/ShareCardLayoutTest.kt
Share-card branding now positions the logo and “Listen on” label using content bounds and layout settings. Tests check label sizing and branding bounds.
Expressive media-card components
core/designsystem/.../components/*, core/designsystem/src/main/res/values/strings.xml, core/designsystem/README.md
Feed media cards add expressive poster and featured presentations, matching skeletons, and localized badge text.
Home discovery sections and headers
feature/home/src/main/java/.../HomeFeed*.kt, feature/home/src/main/java/.../HomeScreen.kt, feature/home/src/main/java/.../components/*, feature/home/src/main/res/values/strings.xml, feature/home/src/test/.../components/HomeDiscovery*Test.kt
Home discovery sections use shared rails, expressive cards, revised headers, localized controls, and animated daypart marks. The Video Spotlight UI and its Home feed wiring are removed. Tests cover layout, navigation, interaction, and loading states.
Library and mix cards
feature/home/src/main/java/.../components/LibrarySection*.kt, feature/home/src/main/java/.../components/Mix*.kt, feature/home/src/main/java/.../components/DailyBriefingCard.kt, feature/home/src/test/.../components/*
Mix-card geometry, artwork, playback controls, duration labels, and progress indicators are updated. Library styling and the Daily Briefing header are also revised; tests cover mix geometry and artwork selection.

Debug notification preview

Layer / File(s) Summary
Debug receiver and invocation
app/src/debug/AndroidManifest.xml, app/src/debug/java/.../TestNotificationReceiver.kt, app/src/debug/res/values/strings.xml, app/README.md
A debug receiver handles the test broadcast and posts a notification when notifications are enabled. The manifest protects the exported receiver with DUMP permission. The README documents invocation and release-build exclusions.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Feature

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 16f88

The refresh is mergeable with owner awareness, but its mix time label, Library accessibility text, and seed-card documentation should be corrected. Enlarged text can also be truncated on mix cards.


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Unresolved Review Threads ❌ Error Three newly generated CodeRabbit findings remain outstanding. They are not fixed or explicitly dismissed: two Minor code findings in LibrarySectionMixtape.kt and LibrarySection.kt, and one Minor d… Fix all three findings, then mark each review thread resolved. Alternatively, explicitly dismiss each finding with a short rationale before merge.
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 6.02% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 133 functions across 37 files. (19 skipped… Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Check name Status Explanation
Title check ✅ Passed The title follows the required Conventional Commits format, uses the allowed feat type with a home scope, uses imperative wording, stays under 72 characters, and accurately describes the changes.
Description check ✅ Passed The description clearly explains the Home refresh, branding updates, debug notification receiver, compatibility impact, testing, and release notes. It is directly related to the changeset.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Architecture Compliance ✅ Passed PASS. The PR changes only app debug/resources, core:designsystem, and feature:home. No changed Gradle file adds a feature-to-feature dependency. Added Home imports target feature.home only; no changed…
Module Readme Updated ✅ Passed PASS. The PR changes production Kotlin in core/designsystem/src/main/ and feature/home/src/main/. It also modifies the matching core/designsystem/README.md and feature/home/README.md. No `app/…
Jvm Tests For Changed Logic ✅ Passed The PR does not change engines, repositories, or ViewModel logic. It adds the pure resolveMixArtwork helper and covers precedence, whitespace, fallback, and empty cases in `feature/home/src/test/...…
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Inline comments:
Review comments at @feature/home/README.md:
- Line 13: Update the seed-card description for BecauseYouLikeSeed and the
README accent section to match the implementation: use secondary-container for
the card surface, on-secondary-container for the badge, and tertiary for the
burst.

Review comments at
@feature/home/src/main/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/feature/home/components/LibrarySection.kt:
- Around line 266-271: Replace the hard-coded description passed to
HomeChapterBrowseButton with a stringResource-backed localized string, and add
the corresponding entry to the app’s string resources so TalkBack announces the
description in the user’s language.

Review comments at
@feature/home/src/main/java/cx/aswin/boxlore/feature/home/components/LibrarySectionMixtape.kt:
- Around line 803-806: Update the remaining-minutes calculation in the
isInProgress label to use the total remaining seconds divided by 60, rather than
dropping whole hours, and clamp the result to at least 1 so sub-minute
remainders display “1m left.”

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