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Problem

Android phone and TV can cut to a black player surface while Next Up hands playback from one episode to the next. The outgoing item is torn down or hidden before the successor has rendered its first frame, so the transition exposes Media3's empty surface even though playback starts normally afterward.

On phone, the loading branch replaces the mounted PlayerView. On TV, Next Up navigates to a new player route, which disposes the current player screen and surface. Both paths also dismiss the outgoing Up Next card before there is a rendered successor frame to replace it.

This is the Android-side equivalent of the presentation problem addressed in silo-apple#227. This PR changes only silo-android; it does not change Apple or the server contract.

Related issue: N/A — narrow playback fix.

What I changed

  • I keep the existing phone and TV PlayerView mounted while the successor loads and enable Media3's retained-content behavior so the outgoing frame covers the item reset.
  • I added a shared NextUpTransitionGate that owns one handoff and records the successor's exact mount generation/nonce. Only the first frame from that mount can finish the transition; stale first-frame, preflight, decoder-error, and duplicate Next Up callbacks cannot finish or disrupt it.
  • I carry that immutable mount token on each Media3 item and read it from the event-specific AnalyticsListener.EventTime. A queued predecessor callback can no longer be mistaken for the successor after the live UI state changes.
  • I keep the outgoing Up Next card visible during the handoff, then clear it and resolve the following episode only after the successor renders.
  • I changed TV auto-advance from route replacement to an in-place content load. The handoff preserves the selected source, audio intent, and subtitle intent across episodes without disposing the video surface.
  • I finalize the outgoing TV episode before starting the successor: settle subtitle writes, fence stale playback mutations, persist the final position and subtitle selection, and stop the exact outgoing session without clearing the mounted UI.
  • I suppress the phone's stale missing-session renewal during a Next Up handoff.
  • I kept Watch Together authoritative. The old TV navigation collector carried the room guard; the new in-place path now applies the same tested guard inside the view model so a remote Next command cannot desynchronise a room.
  • I made TV fallback events carry a required transport nonce, rebound phone and TV recovery remounts to any active transition, and reset TV's automatic text-subtitle selection latch for each successor episode.
  • Load failures cancel the handoff and expose the normal error UI instead of leaving the retained frame or card stuck.

User-visible result

During Android Next Up, the outgoing frame and card remain in place while the next episode prepares. They disappear only when the new episode has rendered a frame. Normal buffering, retry, track selection, pass-out protection, Back behavior, and room-owned playback remain on their existing paths.

Regression coverage

  • NextUpTransitionGateTest proves that an outgoing or superseded mount cannot complete the handoff, including a queued predecessor frame arriving after a successor recovery remount, and that duplicate actions remain blocked until completion or cancellation.
  • TvPlayNextSelectionHandoffTest proves that an in-place replacement invalidates the old lease and exposes the successor's new source/subtitle handoff.
  • The existing RoomSessionTest coverage for shouldNavigateToLocalNext remains on the TV room-ownership path.

Validation

Tested commit: 7197e1a9acbf60baef4e89b91b3ec2289c45e4cf

  • Passed — Unit tests in 5m11s:
    • ./scripts/test-check-build-supply-chain.sh
    • ./scripts/check-build-supply-chain.sh
    • ./gradlew -Dorg.gradle.jvmargs="-Xmx4g -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8" testDebugUnitTest --max-workers=2
  • Passed — Lint in 11m01s:
    • ./gradlew -Dorg.gradle.jvmargs="-Xmx4g -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8" :android-shared:lintDebug :androidApp:lintDebug :androidTvApp:lintDebug :androidApp:lintVitalRelease :androidTvApp:lintVitalRelease --max-workers=2
  • Skipped by design — Media3 FFmpeg AAR build; this PR does not change the pinned native artifact and the workflow-dispatch input remained off.
  • Not run — Android APK assembly/install and phone/TV device or emulator playback. The local host did not have the required Java runtime available, and no Android visual session was used in this task.
  • Not provided — before/after image or transition recording. The retained-frame behavior still needs interactive Android device/emulator verification because hosted unit and lint jobs cannot assert what the video surface displays between mounts.

Risks and limitations

  • The outgoing frame is intentionally retained until the successor's exact first frame. A failed successor load takes the existing error path and cancels the transition.
  • TV now keeps one player route across an auto-advanced chain instead of replacing the route per episode. The content/session identity and SiloCast state now come from the active view-model state for that reason.
  • I did not change any API, database, deployment, Apple code, or native FFmpeg artifact.

Benchmarks

Not applicable. This is a playback state and presentation-correctness change, not a throughput or latency optimization, and I did not run performance benchmarks.

AI Disclosure

  • Harness: Codex desktop app
  • Tool(s): Codex coding agent and GitHub CLI
  • Model(s): GPT-5
  • Involvement: AI-assisted; I directed the task and designed the work.
  • Adversarial review: I traced the complete diff against upstream main, including stale callbacks, duplicate actions, outgoing-session finalization, cross-episode selection handoff, errors, and room ownership. That review found the TV in-place path had displaced the old screen-level Watch Together guard, which I moved into the view model in e3b4117e. CodeRabbit then found event/mount correlation, recovery-remount, required TV nonce, and per-episode subtitle-latch gaps. I fixed those in 7197e1a9, replied to every finding, resolved every review thread, and reran the full unit and lint workflow successfully on the final commit.

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Walkthrough

The player now performs Next Up episode changes in place. A transition gate matches the successor content and mount token, retains the outgoing frame and card, filters stale callbacks, and completes the handoff on the successor’s first rendered frame.

Changes

Next Up transition

Layer / File(s) Summary
Transition gate contract
android-shared/src/androidMain/..., android-shared/src/androidUnitTest/...
Adds a synchronized gate that accepts one successor mount and completes only on its matching first frame. Tests cover stale mounts, duplicate starts, cancellation, and completion.
Android player handoff integration
androidApp/src/androidMain/.../PlayerScreen.kt, androidApp/src/androidMain/.../PlayerViewModel.kt
Threads media generations through playback callbacks, retains the outgoing frame during reset, preserves Up Next state during loading, and clears it after the successor frame or failure.
TV in-place episode orchestration
androidTvApp/src/androidMain/.../TvPlayerViewModel.kt
Replaces route navigation with in-place session finalization, state reset, handoff replacement, successor loading, stale-resolution guards, and transition cancellation on failure or exit.
TV player wiring and handoff validation
androidTvApp/src/androidMain/.../TvPlayerScreen.kt, androidTvApp/src/androidMain/.../TvAppNavigation.kt, androidTvApp/src/androidUnitTest/...
Uses ViewModel content state and transport nonces, retains player content, removes auto-advance navigation wiring, and tests replacement of stale handoff leases.

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

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to e3b41

Next Up transitions can hang, reveal successor state too early, or apply incorrect subtitle preferences on phone and TV. These playback regressions should be fixed before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Player
  participant PlayerViewModel
  participant NextUpTransitionGate
  participant Media3Player
  Player->>PlayerViewModel: advanceToNextEpisode()
  PlayerViewModel->>NextUpTransitionGate: begin(nextContentId)
  PlayerViewModel->>PlayerViewModel: finish outgoing session and load successor
  PlayerViewModel->>NextUpTransitionGate: expectMount(contentId, mountToken)
  Media3Player-->>Player: render successor first frame
  Player->>PlayerViewModel: onFirstVideoFrameRendered(mountToken)
  PlayerViewModel->>NextUpTransitionGate: completeOnFirstFrame(mountToken)
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⚠️ Outside diff range comments (1)
androidApp/src/androidMain/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/android/ui/screens/player/PlayerViewModel.kt (1)

1908-1908: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Bind a recovery mount to the active transition.

If the successor fails before its first frame, this replan creates a replacement mount token but does not update nextUpTransitionGate. The gate retains the failed mount token. The replacement first-frame callback then cannot complete the handoff, so the outgoing Up Next state remains active.

Proposed fix
 val mountGeneration = expectNextMediaMount()
+nextUpTransitionGate.expectMount(
+    contentId = state.contentId,
+    mountToken = mountGeneration,
+)
 _uiState.update { current ->
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In
`@androidApp/src/androidMain/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/android/ui/screens/player/PlayerViewModel.kt`
at line 1908, Update the recovery mount flow around expectNextMediaMount so the
replacement mount token is also assigned to nextUpTransitionGate. Ensure the
first-frame callback for the replacement mount can complete the active handoff
and clear the outgoing Up Next state.
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Inline comments:
In
`@androidApp/src/androidMain/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/android/ui/screens/player/PlayerScreen.kt`:
- Line 941: Update the first-frame callback flow around PlayerScreen and
PlayerViewModel.onFirstVideoFrameRendered to carry the rendered media item’s
identity or generation with the event, rather than reading the mutable
mountedMediaGeneration when the callback executes. Only complete
NextUpTransitionGate when that identity matches the media item currently
awaiting first-frame completion, and add a regression test covering a queued
callback arriving after the mounted generation changes.

In
`@androidTvApp/src/androidMain/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/tv/ui/screens/player/TvPlayerScreen.kt`:
- Around line 1495-1501: The onRenderedFirstFrame callback in the
MediaController listener must use the mount token captured when that listener is
registered or the player is mounted, rather than reading mutable
mountedTransportNonce at dispatch time. Pass that captured token to
ViewModel.onFirstVideoFrameRendered while preserving stall-detector
notifications, and add a regression test covering a queued predecessor callback
during a Next Up handoff to ensure it cannot resolve the successor before its
own first frame.

In
`@androidTvApp/src/androidMain/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/tv/ui/screens/player/TvPlayerViewModel.kt`:
- Around line 4151-4163: Reset autoTextSubtitleSelectionAttempted to false
alongside the other successor-specific selection state in the per-episode reset
block, so resolveAutoPreferredTextSubtitle can run for the new episode.
- Around line 2373-2375: Require a transport mount nonce in
onUnsupportedPlayback and update every caller, including the base-layer mismatch
collector and startup-stall detector in TvPlayerScreen, to pass
mountedTransportNonce. Preserve successor-transition failure handling after
Ready publication so valid startup-stall signals are not filtered out by a
missing nonce.

---

Outside diff comments:
In
`@androidApp/src/androidMain/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/android/ui/screens/player/PlayerViewModel.kt`:
- Line 1908: Update the recovery mount flow around expectNextMediaMount so the
replacement mount token is also assigned to nextUpTransitionGate. Ensure the
first-frame callback for the replacement mount can complete the active handoff
and clear the outgoing Up Next state.

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  • android-shared/src/androidMain/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/common/player/video/NextUpTransitionGate.kt
  • android-shared/src/androidUnitTest/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/common/player/video/NextUpTransitionGateTest.kt
  • androidApp/src/androidMain/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/android/ui/screens/player/PlayerScreen.kt
  • androidApp/src/androidMain/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/android/ui/screens/player/PlayerViewModel.kt
  • androidTvApp/src/androidMain/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/tv/ui/navigation/TvAppNavigation.kt
  • androidTvApp/src/androidMain/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/tv/ui/screens/player/TvPlayerScreen.kt
  • androidTvApp/src/androidMain/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/tv/ui/screens/player/TvPlayerViewModel.kt
  • androidTvApp/src/androidUnitTest/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/tv/ui/screens/player/TvPlayNextSelectionHandoffTest.kt
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CodeRabbit outside-diff recovery-mount finding: valid and fixed in 7197e1a. When phone playback recovery creates a replacement media generation, I now assign that token to the active Next Up transition gate before publishing the remount. The replacement stream can therefore complete the handoff on its own first frame, while callbacks from the failed mount remain stale. The same replacement-mount binding is applied centrally on TV. The exact commit passed Unit tests (5m11s) and Lint (11m01s): https://github.com/Silo-Server/silo-android/actions/runs/33829401143

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