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Tapping a photo, a video, a document or a voice note in a chat did nothing yet: the thread drew every cell, but nothing opened.

Now they open:

  • A photo opens full screen on black. It loads the original over its thumbnail, zooms with a pinch or a double tap, pans, and refits when the phone rotates.
  • Videos and round videos play in the system player. A GIF loops without sound.
  • A document downloads in its cell and opens in Quick Look, which has its own share button.
  • Voice notes and audio files play inside their cell, with a pause button, the elapsed time and a progress bar. Only one plays at a time, and it stops when the cell scrolls away or the viewer opens.
  • Share hands the original file to the share sheet, and only downloads it when a share target asks for it. It only shows when the login may download files.

AVFoundation fetches media with its own HTTP stack, so the session cookie reaches it through the public AVURLAssetHTTPCookiesKey. A 401 on any of these files ends the session the same way it does on every other route.

The design expected Ogg/Opus voice notes not to play. They do: AVFoundation on the iOS 26.5 simulator decodes them. A test decodes an invented Ogg/Opus clip to PCM, and a live test opens the demo server's voice notes over http with the cookie, then checks that the same file without the cookie comes back as a 401. If a device can't read a file, the cell says so and keeps the transcript under it. DESIGN.md records both results in sections 2, 3.6 and 7.

A 401 on a video used to crash the app instead of showing the sign-in screen. The wipe that runs when a session ends invalidated the session's URLSession, and the thread behind the viewer then asked it for more, which raises an exception Swift cannot catch. That bug was already on main (a launch with an ended session crashed the same way through the chat list), and the viewer made it easy to hit. The wipe now ends the client instead: requests in flight are cancelled, later ones fail as cancelled without reaching the server, and the URLSession is only invalidated once nothing holds the client.

The share sheet header now shows the photo's thumbnail instead of a blank icon. With the photo-library add string in the Info.plist, it also offers Save Image and Save Video.

Tests: 12 new, floor raised to 209. The new session test crashes on the old wipe. I proved the gate fails one above the count.

Known gaps:

  • I checked playback on a simulator whose audio output stalls for about 3.5 minutes the first time a process starts audio. GIFs play at once there. Videos with sound showed their first frame only after the stall. On CI (Xcode 26.6) the same Ogg/Opus decode takes about a second, so the stall belongs to that machine. A real device should still be checked, and a tracker task records that.

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  • New Features
    • View photos and videos in a full-screen viewer, with zoom for images and optional sharing.
    • Play voice notes and audio directly in chat, with playback progress and clear messages when a file is unavailable or unsupported.
    • Download documents from chat and preview them with Quick Look.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Requests from ended sessions are cancelled instead of being sent.
  • Documentation
    • Updated guidance on media viewing, playback, sharing, and session behavior.

AVFoundation fetches media with its own HTTP stack, so the cookie goes in
through the public AVURLAssetHTTPCookiesKey. Readiness reads what
AVFoundation makes of a file before it plays: playable, unsupported, a 401
or a failed load.
…place

Photos zoom and pan, videos play in the system player, documents open in
Quick Look and voice notes and audio files play inside their cell. Share
hands over the original file, downloaded only when a share target asks.
An invented 1.5 s Ogg/Opus tone decodes to PCM; against the demo server a
video and a voice note open with the cookie and a 401 without it. The CI
floor rises to 185 tests.
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The pull request adds authenticated media playback, document downloads with Quick Look, and a full-screen viewer for photos and videos. It also changes API client teardown, updates localized strings and app configuration, and adds tests and design notes.

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Media playback and viewing

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Authenticated media readiness and in-cell audio playback
TGArchive/Media/PlayerFactory.swift, TGArchive/Features/Media/AudioPlayback.swift, TGArchive/Features/Chat/Cells/VoiceCell.swift, TGArchiveTests/PlayerFactoryTests.swift, .github/workflows/ci.yml, TGArchive/Resources/*, docs/DESIGN.md
PlayerFactory creates cookie-aware AVFoundation assets and classifies readiness. AudioPlayback tracks playback state and timing, and VoiceCell uses it for controls and status messages. Tests cover readiness, decoding, and playback; the CI gate requires at least 209 tests with no failures.
Full-screen media viewing and sharing
TGArchive/Features/Chat/Cells/MediaPlaceholder.swift, TGArchive/Features/Chat/Cells/{PhotoCell,VideoCell,VideoNoteCell}.swift, TGArchive/Features/Media/{MediaViewer,SharedMediaFile,ZoomableImage}.swift, TGArchive/Resources/*, TGArchiveTests/PlayerFactoryTests.swift, project.yml, docs/DESIGN.md
Photo, video, and video-note cells present media through the full-screen viewer. The viewer adds photo zoom, video playback, and conditional sharing through a transferable file wrapper. App configuration includes a localized photo-library usage description.
Document downloads and Quick Look
TGArchive/Features/Chat/Cells/DocumentCell.swift, docs/DESIGN.md
DocumentCell downloads a selected file through the ready session and presents the resulting URL in Quick Look. It shows download progress, maps failures to localized labels, and cancels active downloads when the view disappears.
API client ending and request cancellation
TGArchive/API/APIClient.swift, TGArchive/Session/SessionStore.swift, TGArchiveTests/SessionStoreTests.swift, docs/DESIGN.md
APIClient.end() cancels current tasks without invalidating the URL session. Later sends fail as cancelled, and SessionStore uses this behavior during local wipe.

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TGArchiveTests/PlayerFactoryTests.swift (2)

202-204: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Fail the test when waitFor times out.

waitFor returns without an error when the deadline passes. If the state stays .loading, the test fails only through the later .failed expectation, and the failure message does not mention the timeout. Throw or record an issue in waitFor when the condition is still false at the deadline.

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Review comment at @TGArchiveTests/PlayerFactoryTests.swift around lines 202 -
204:
Update waitFor so it throws or records a test issue when its condition remains
false at the deadline, ensuring timed-out waits fail with a clear timeout
message. Keep the existing state checks and callers’ behavior unchanged when the
condition succeeds.

190-191: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Remove the stale comment on Line 190.

Line 190 says a refused file is a "failed load". Line 191 and the assertion say the result is .unauthorized. The two comments contradict each other. Delete Line 190.

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-        // A refused file is a failed load, never "this device can't play it".
         // A refused file reaches AVFoundation as a 401: the session's end, never "this device can't play it".
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Review comment at @TGArchiveTests/PlayerFactoryTests.swift around lines 190 -
191:
Remove the stale comment in the refused-file test that describes the result as a
failed load; retain the comment describing the 401 response and the session’s
`.unauthorized` result.
TGArchive/Features/Media/MediaViewer.swift (1)

152-157: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

A cancelled .task can repopulate player after onDisappear clears it.

onDisappear pauses and clears player and looper. The .task body assigns them synchronously and does not check cancellation. On dismissal, onDisappear and task cancellation can run in either order. If they run in the unsafe order, the old player keeps its asset and can keep loading. The await at Line 148 is the only suspension point, so this race is narrow. A cleaner design ties teardown to the task itself: check Task.isCancelled after the readiness await, and pause the player when the task ends.

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-            player?.play()
-            if await PlayerFactory.readiness(of: asset) == .unauthorized, !Task.isCancelled {
-                await unauthorized()
-            }
+            player?.play()
+            let readiness = await PlayerFactory.readiness(of: asset)
+            guard !Task.isCancelled else { return }
+            if readiness == .unauthorized {
+                player?.pause()
+                await unauthorized()
+            }
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Review comment at @TGArchive/Features/Media/MediaViewer.swift around lines 152 -
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Update the media viewer’s task around PlayerFactory.readiness to check
Task.isCancelled immediately after the await and stop before continuing when
cancelled; ensure the task pauses its player when it ends so a dismissed viewer
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Inline comments:
Review comments at @TGArchive/Features/Chat/Cells/DocumentCell.swift:
- Line 83: Track an operation ID for each download and update the completion
path that sets `download` to nil so it clears the state only when the finishing
task’s ID still matches the current download. This prevents a canceled task from
clearing a newer download’s state.

Review comments at @TGArchive/Features/Media/SharedMediaFile.swift:
- Around line 33-43: Update the photo-library permission configuration for the
share sheet by adding NSPhotoLibraryAddUsageDescription with an appropriate
user-facing explanation, so the Save Image action promised by the comment above
SharedMediaFile.transferRepresentation is available.

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Nitpick comments:
Review comments at @TGArchive/Features/Media/MediaViewer.swift:
- Around line 152-157: Update the media viewer’s task around
PlayerFactory.readiness to check Task.isCancelled immediately after the await
and stop before continuing when cancelled; ensure the task pauses its player
when it ends so a dismissed viewer cannot leave the old player loading.

Review comments at @TGArchiveTests/PlayerFactoryTests.swift:
- Around line 202-204: Update waitFor so it throws or records a test issue when
its condition remains false at the deadline, ensuring timed-out waits fail with
a clear timeout message. Keep the existing state checks and callers’ behavior
unchanged when the condition succeeds.
- Around line 190-191: Remove the stale comment in the refused-file test that
describes the result as a failed load; retain the comment describing the 401
response and the session’s `.unauthorized` result.

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A document cell no longer clears its download state before the cancelled
task ends, a dismissed video viewer stops after its readiness check, and a
test wait that times out now says so.
…l hold it

The wipe invalidated the session's URLSession while the chat list, the thread
and the media viewer could still hold its client, and their next request raised
an uncatchable NSGenericException. The wipe now ends the client instead: its
requests are cancelled and later sends fail as cancelled, and the URLSession is
invalidated only when the client is freed.
A title-only SharePreview left the header icon blank.
The system hides both without a photo-library add usage string.
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