Dylan
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Written for where the app actually is -- you and friends riding -- rather than jumping straight to a store listing. Stage 0 is today: on Android, messaging friends the APK is a complete answer and may always be. On iOS it is not, because free signing gives 7-day builds and needs your Mac each time, so anyone riding with an iPhone forces the next stage. Stage 1 is the one that fits a riding group: $99/yr for TestFlight turns install into one tap with 90-day builds, and $25 once covers Play internal testing. Both need a privacy policy URL before any tester touches them, since the app records location. Stage 2 covers public listings, and flags that background location is the common rejection on both stores -- pre-empt it with a demo video of a real ride. Stage 3 lays out monetization honestly: paid up front, a one-time unlock for local extras, or a subscription for cloud features. The last one is the only model that justifies recurring money and the only one that brings servers, accounts, GDPR deletion and Apple's in-app account deletion requirement. Recommendation is to stay free now, and reach for a one-time unlock before a subscription. Also noted a positioning question worth settling before any store listing: the pipeline is activity-agnostic, and whether Rippr is a motorcycle app or a general ride recorder decides the category, the screenshots and the audience. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Rippr
A GPS ride recorder for motorcycles, on Android and iOS. Records telemetry into a local SQLite database, renders the traversed path on a map afterwards, and exports to GPX/GeoJSON.
Built for one specific use: hit start, put the phone in a pocket, ride, hit stop. Most of the design follows from that.
This is a Flutter port of the native Android app in ~/dojo/rippr (v1 → v2.0.1). The port
is feature-complete; see docs/port/PARITY-AUDIT.md for
exactly what is verified and what is not.
Flutter 3.47 · Dart 3.13 Android minSdk 26 · iOS 12+
~4,600 lines Dart 175 tests (171 unit/widget, 4 integration)
Status
| Feature | Status |
|---|---|
| GPS recording, foreground on Android / background mode on iOS | Implemented; not yet ridden |
| Trips with pause / resume / stop / discard | Working, 50 tests |
| Live speed + elapsed clock | Working |
| Path on OpenStreetMap, per-segment, speed-coloured | Working; colouring unverifiable without a real ride |
| Ride statistics + charts | Working; bit-identical to the Kotlin original |
| Rename / delete / merge rides | Working |
| GPX + GeoJSON export | Working; byte-identical to the Kotlin original |
| Upload to a REST endpoint | Implemented, no UI (as in the native app) |
| Notification actions (Pause/Resume in the shade) | Absent — the one capability lost |
| Live map while recording · group ride | Deferred to v3 |
The port has never recorded a real ride. No simulator produces velocity, so max speed, moving time, speed colouring, elevation against real GPS error, battery, and iOS stationary suspension are all unverified. That is docs/port/REAL-RIDE-CHECKLIST.md, and it is the next thing that should happen.
Quick start
Requires JDK 17–21 for Android (AGP rejects 25) and Xcode for iOS.
flutter pub get
dart run build_runner build # Drift codegen
flutter analyze && flutter test
flutter test integration_test -d <device-id>
flutter run
Watch the disk. A full dual-platform build cycle costs roughly 10 GB, and the Android
emulator needs 7.4 GB free just to boot. Run flutter clean before booting it.
Cross-language parity
The strongest guarantee in this repo. It compiles the real Kotlin sources from the native app and diffs them against the Dart port across twenty fixtures:
brew install kotlin
JAVA_HOME=<jdk-21> ./tool/parity/run.sh
Everything matches to the last digit — including the elevation accumulator at
38.959594555022136 and byte-identical GPX/GeoJSON. The single expected difference is
speed-derived values, where Kotlin's 32-bit Float widens with artefacts Dart's uniform
double does not reproduce.
Documentation
| Document | Contents |
|---|---|
| docs/ARCHITECTURE.md | Why it is built this way, and what changed from the native app |
| docs/LAUNCH.md | Getting from "on my phone" to the app stores, in stages, with costs |
| docs/port/IOS-VERIFICATION.md | What a Mac can prove about the iPhone build, and what cannot |
| docs/port/PLAN.md | The 28-task migration plan |
| docs/port/PROGRESS.md | What actually happened, including every bug found |
| docs/port/PARITY-AUDIT.md | Feature-by-feature, with the evidence behind each claim |
| docs/port/REAL-RIDE-CHECKLIST.md | The outstanding work |
| docs/port/RELEASE-IOS.md | App Review readiness |
| docs/PORT_RESEARCH.md | The original research this plan was built on |
The native repo's docs/v1/, docs/v2/ and docs/v3/BACKLOG.md remain the record of how
the app got here and where it is going.
Two bugs this port found in the native app
Crash recovery measured the dead time as distance. restoreAfterProcessDeath says it
resumes into a new segment; it actually adopts the segment a crash left open, so the
authoritative recomputation measures straight through the gap. Reproduced at 111 km of
phantom distance. Fixed here.
The elevation regression guard passes on seed luck. On a shared fixture the algorithm
yields ~39 m, which would fail the native test's own 35 m bound. It passes only because
kotlin.random.Random(42) happens to draw a benign sequence.
Before shipping
- Switch the application id from
com.rippr.portback tocom.rippr. The suffix exists so the native app can be installed alongside during the port — keep it until the real ride comparison is done. - Replace the default Flutter app icon; the native artwork is in
~/dojo/rippr/design/. - Build and test a release build. Everything so far has been debug.