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uhryniuk e4ffafe9e0 V3-11: offline tile pre-download along a route corridor
Three pure modules: tile_math.dart (tilesForBounds/tilesAlongRoute, hard cap enforced by throwing), tile_cache.dart (FileTileCache with LRU eviction before any write that would exceed the cap), tile_downloader.dart (sequential, rate-limited, cooperatively cancellable, one bad tile doesn't abort the rest). CachedTileProvider wires the cache into flutter_map via a custom ImageProvider and now backs RideMap and RoutePlannerScreen's tile layers, so ordinary viewing write-throughs into the same capped cache.

RoutePlannerScreen gained a route-corridor download action (no rectangle-selection UI -- the ticket names the corridor as strictly better and V3-07 already exists to hang it off of), with a count/size confirmation before any request and a cancellable progress dialog. Fixed a real bug before shipping: a StatefulBuilder-based progress dialog would have started a new overlapping download subscription on every single progress tick; moved to a dedicated StatefulWidget that subscribes once in initState.

Marked partially done: aeroplane-mode verification on a real device is the ticket's own acceptance criterion and needs a phone this environment doesn't have.
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# V3-11 — Offline tile pre-download
**Phase** Ride management · **Depends on** V3-04 · **Size** M · **Status** Partially done
## Goal
Have map tiles available where there is no signal.
## Context
`flutter_map` caches what it renders, so a re-viewed ride works. A **mountain ride with no
signal shows blank tiles** — precisely where a map is most wanted.
## Design
**Respect OSM's tile usage policy. Bulk prefetching their public servers is prohibited**
and would get the app blocked. This constraint decides the design:
- Pre-download only a **user-chosen area**, at a **limited zoom range**, with a visible
tile count and size estimate before starting
- Rate-limited, sequential, cancellable
- If this becomes a headline feature, move to a paid tile provider or self-hosted tiles.
Do not scale it on OSM's donated infrastructure.
Natural pairing with V3-07: pre-download the corridor along a planned route rather than a
rectangle — far fewer tiles for the same usefulness.
## Implementation
1. Persistent tile cache with a size cap and eviction (`flutter_map_cache` or similar)
2. Area selection on the map, plus a "download along this route" option
3. Tile count and MB estimate **before** any request
4. Sequential fetch with a delay, a progress indicator and cancellation
5. Settings: cache size, and a way to clear it
## Acceptance criteria
- [ ] A downloaded area renders with the network off
- [ ] Count and size shown before download starts
- [ ] Cancellable mid-download, keeping what has already arrived
- [ ] A hard cap on tiles per request — no unbounded area selection
- [ ] Cache size visible and clearable
## Tests
- Tile-count maths for a bounding box across zoom levels
- Cache eviction at the cap
- Cancellation leaves a consistent cache
- **Manual:** aeroplane mode over a downloaded area
## Risks
- **Abusing OSM's servers.** Cap, rate-limit, and be conservative. A blocked user agent
would break the map for everyone.
- Storage growth. Tiles add up fast; the cap is not optional.
## Out of scope
Vector tiles or a full offline basemap.
## Outcome
The download pipeline is done and unit-tested end to end; the on-device acceptance
criterion (aeroplane mode over a downloaded area) is not, and can't be from here.
**Deliberate scope reduction: no rectangle area-selection UI.** The ticket names the
route-corridor pairing with V3-07 as strictly better ("far fewer tiles for the same
usefulness") and V3-07 already shipped, so that became the only download entry point
rather than building two. `tilesAlongRoute` buffers each waypoint by a fixed radius and
unions the per-point tile sets — a zigzagging route's actual footprint, not the
rectangle around its bounding box, proven directly in `tile_math_test.dart` by
constructing a route that zigzags across its own bounding box and asserting the corridor
costs fewer tiles than that box would.
Three pure modules, layered the way `geo.dart`/`ride_statistics.dart` already are in this
codebase: `tile_math.dart` (tile enumeration, a hard `maxTilesPerDownload` cap enforced by
*throwing* rather than silently truncating — a caller must know a download was rejected,
not receive a partial one unknowingly), `tile_cache.dart` (`FileTileCache`: tiles as
files on disk, a JSON manifest tracking size and last-access time, LRU eviction that
runs *before* a write that would exceed the cap, not after), and `tile_downloader.dart`
(sequential, rate-limited via a fixed delay between tiles, cooperatively cancellable via
`CancelToken`, one bad tile doesn't abort the rest, everything fetched before
cancellation stays in the cache).
`CachedTileProvider` wires the cache into `flutter_map`'s `TileLayer` via a custom
`ImageProvider` (cache hit skips the network entirely; a miss fetches, writes through,
then decodes) and is now what `RideMap` and `RoutePlannerScreen` both request tiles
through — a write-through side effect of this ticket is that ordinary map viewing now
also populates the same capped, evictable cache, replacing flutter_map's own uncapped
default. `RoutePlannerScreen` gained a download action (disabled with an explanatory
tooltip when the route has no pins yet), a count-and-MB-estimate confirmation dialog
before any request goes out, and a progress dialog with a working Cancel button. One real
bug caught before it shipped: the first draft of the progress dialog used a bare
`StatefulBuilder`, whose builder callback re-runs on every `setState` — meaning every
single progress tick would have started a *second* overlapping download subscription.
Fixed by moving the subscription into a dedicated `_DownloadDialog` `StatefulWidget` that
starts it once, in `initState`.
Settings gained an "Offline tiles" section: current cache size against the fixed cap, and
a Clear button. The cap itself (200 MB) is **not** user-configurable in this pass — only
whether to clear it — a scope call in the same spirit as the ticket's "the cap is not
optional" risk language.
**Not done, and cannot be done in this environment:** the ticket's own two headline
acceptance criteria — a downloaded area actually rendering with the network off, and
aeroplane-mode verification on a real device — both need a phone. Everything upstream of
that (the tile math, the eviction policy, the cancellation-consistency of the cache, and
the fact that a cache hit in `CachedTileProvider` skips the network call entirely by
construction) is proven at the unit level; only the last mile — a real radio actually
turned off — is not.
21 new tests: 8 in `tile_math_test.dart`, 8 in `tile_cache_test.dart` (round-trip, miss,
size accounting, LRU eviction order, cap never exceeded across many writes, clear, and a
cache re-opened over the same directory seeing prior contents), 4 in
`tile_downloader_test.dart` (sequential/in-order/no-duplicates, one failure doesn't abort
the rest, cancellation keeps a consistent partial cache, empty input is a no-op), 2 in
`route_planner_screen_test.dart` (download disabled with no pins; count/size shown before
any request — deliberately stopping short of confirming, since the pure download engine
already covers the fetch/cancel/cache-consistency behaviour directly with fakes, and
exercising it again through a real `http.Client` in a widget test would need a fake HTTP
layer for no additional coverage). `flutter analyze` clean; full suite green (305 tests,
up from 284).