Explore shelf cards drew a poster, a title and a year. An audit of all six
catalog sources found the rest was lost at two boundaries — the wire-to-DTO
mapping and the DTO-to-CatalogItem mapping — and then simply not drawn: the
grid card fell through every branch of buildMetadataSubtitle to the year-only
case, while the list card used by search already composed certification,
runtime and rating from fields the synthesized MediaItem already held.
Extend CatalogItem with the neutral facts every provider had been dropping:
attributed rating sources, leaderboard ranks that keep their season window,
audience counters that keep their timeframe, broadcast slots, next-episode air
times, server availability and request state, exact release dates, alternate
titles, format, source material, studios, countries, languages, credits, tags,
links, artwork variants, play state, gallery art and background prose. Replace
fetchCast and fetchRelated with one fetchDetail returning the enriched item,
its cast, its recommendations and labelled franchise relations without adding
a request: sources needing two calls keep two and run them concurrently with
isolated failures.
Map those fields in all six sources, widening only field selections that cost
no extra round trip — MAL's fields list, AniList's selection set and a bounded
row cast that lets detail skip its character call, Trakt's guest stars, Seerr's
language parameter and TMDB size ladder, and Plex's includeUserState. Plex hub
artwork widens only on TV, where the spotlight is its only consumer, because it
doubles the payload.
Render them: a rating-first caption and bounded badges on the shelf card,
labelled sections on the detail screen, provider hub styles and result counts
on shelves, and logo, banner and accent art in the TV spotlight.
Verified against live Plex, AniList, Simkl and MAL responses, and on a Pixel 7.
Drops dead code across services, models, utils and widgets, including the
connection auth service, which had no implementer, and the Live TV DVR
provisioning models, which had no caller.
Tests that only covered deleted behaviour are removed or trimmed. No
behaviour change.
Un-gates music libraries; adds CardShape.square plumbing (circular
artists), artists/albums/tracks browse groupings with per-grouping
sorts, audio playlists tab, artist + album detail screens with dpad
track rows, music context-menu actions, and a stub MusicPlaybackService
seam for the upcoming engine.
Profile traces showed 100-370ms UI-thread frames while scrolling the
library screen, dominated by rebuilding and inflating media cards.
- Gate per-card focus/pointer chrome on input mode: FocusableWrapper
skips the scale/border wrappers and creates its AnimationController
lazily outside keyboard mode, and ClickableCursor plus the card tap
region only build MouseRegion/InkWell machinery on desktop - TV and
touch use a bare GestureDetector. Hub cards also drop their outer
gesture wrapper outside keyboard mode; the card's own tap region
always won the gesture arena anyway.
- Memoize sliver children (SliverChildMemo): browse/collections grids
and hub rows return identical widget instances for unchanged items,
so delegate swaps from pagination, watch-state, and deletion
setStates no longer rebuild every realized card inside layout. The
browse tab prunes the memo in lockstep with focus-node eviction so a
cached card can never resurrect a disposed FocusNode.
- Budget fresh inflation (CardInflationBudget): while a scrollable is
moving in pointer/touch mode at most one new card inflates per frame,
the rest render as SkeletonMediaCard and upgrade on following frames.
Hub rows also stop pre-inflating 250px of off-screen cards on entry.
Device traces: worst frame 373ms -> 103ms, per-card build 3.6ms ->
2.4ms median; remaining row-entry work is spread across frames.
Poster images are decorative (the card exposes one merged node), and
the default per-child AutomaticKeepAlive/_SelectionKeepAlive/
IndexedSemantics wrappers are inert here — no keep-alive clients or
SelectionArea exist. The semantics phase ran ~9ms every frame on TV
devices with an accessibility service; it scales with node count.
- Add left navigation from hubs to sidebar when at leftmost item
- Add up navigation from first hub to tab bar (Libraries) or hero section (Discover)
- Enhance HubSection with onNavigateLeft and onNavigateUp callbacks
- Update _handleVerticalNavigation to return false at top boundary for proper UP handling
- Implement _navigateToSidebar() in Library Recommended tab and Discover screen
- Update all HubSection instances with proper navigation callbacks