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fix(download): keep iOS home screen app saves in-app via the share sheet - #353

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Problem

In an installed iOS home-screen web app, tapping any download hands the file to iOS Quick Look ("Open in ..."), which takes over the app's only web view with no back affordance — the user is stranded and must force-quit. This is a known, unfixed WebKit/platform behavior (webkit #236943, #275288) affecting <a download>, blob: URLs, and Content-Disposition: attachment alike; target="_blank" does not help because window.open bypasses the manifest scope. The same code works correctly in an iOS Safari tab.

Fix

New shared helper frontend/src/lib/download.ts:

  • saveFile(blob, filename) / saveFileFromUrl(url, filename)
  • Non-iOS and iOS Safari tabs: unchanged anchor download (works correctly there).
  • iOS home-screen app: navigator.share({ files: [File] }), never a navigation.
  • AbortError (user cancelled) is silent. NotAllowedError — transient activation is 5s in WebKit and await fetch can outlast it — shows a toast with a Save action, so the retry runs on a fresh tap with the blob already in memory.

All six duplicated download implementations now route through it:

  • frontend/src/api/files.ts, frontend/src/api/repos.ts (ZIPs)
  • frontend/src/lib/exportSession.ts (now async; caller frontend/src/pages/SessionDetail.tsx)
  • frontend/src/components/settings/OpenCodeConfigManager.tsx
  • frontend/src/components/file-browser/FileTree.tsx, FilePreview.tsx

Also fixed a latent race while consolidating: revokeObjectURL was called synchronously after click(); it now defers a tick.

Testing

  • frontend/src/lib/download.test.ts: anchor path, share path (asserts no anchor click), and the activation-loss retry.
  • Full frontend suite: 115 files / 1209 tests passed.
  • tsc -b --noEmit clean; eslint . clean.
  • Verified end-to-end on an iOS 26.5 simulator (iPhone 17 Pro) installed as a real home-screen web app: before the fix, tapping a file handed the app to Quick Look with zero interactive elements in the accessibility tree; after, the native share sheet appeared with Save to Files, the saved file was byte-identical to source, and the app stayed interactive behind and after the sheet. A 9 MB repo ZIP (downloadRepo) and share cancellation (AbortError, silent) were also checked.

Note: verification was on the simulator, which cannot fully vouch for share-sheet destinations (AirDrop/Photos behave differently than on device); a physical-device pass remains worthwhile.

How to test manually

Open the app from an iOS home-screen icon (not a Safari tab), open a file in the file browser, and tap download. A system share sheet appears with Save to Files instead of a Quick Look takeover, and the app stays usable.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Standardized downloads for files, folders, repositories, configurations, and session exports.
    • Added native share-sheet support for downloads from iOS home-screen apps.
    • Added retry options and user feedback for share-sheet failures.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved download reliability across supported platforms.
    • Session export success messages now appear only after the export completes successfully.
    • Download failures now provide clear error feedback.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for standard downloads, iOS sharing, retries, cancellations, and error handling.

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The change centralizes blob and URL downloads, adds success results and fetch-error handling, and routes existing download callers through the shared helpers. Markdown export now reports the save result before showing success feedback.

Changes

Shared download handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Download helper and validation
frontend/src/lib/download.ts, frontend/src/lib/download.test.ts
The helpers return download results, handle browser and iOS home-screen app paths, and report URL-fetch failures. Tests cover the main success, cancellation, retry, and failure paths.
Existing download callers
frontend/src/api/files.ts, frontend/src/api/repos.ts, frontend/src/components/file-browser/*, frontend/src/components/settings/OpenCodeConfigManager.tsx
Directory, repository, file, and configuration downloads use the shared helpers. Existing filenames and download URLs remain in use.
Asynchronous Markdown export
frontend/src/lib/exportSession.ts, frontend/src/pages/SessionDetail.tsx
downloadMarkdown returns the save result. handleExportSession shows the success toast only when saving succeeds.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant SessionDetail
  participant downloadMarkdown
  participant saveFile
  participant WebShareAPI

  SessionDetail->>downloadMarkdown: Export Markdown content
  downloadMarkdown->>saveFile: Save Blob with filename
  saveFile->>WebShareAPI: Share file on iOS home-screen app
  saveFile-->>downloadMarkdown: Return save result
  downloadMarkdown-->>SessionDetail: Return save result
  SessionDetail->>SessionDetail: Show success toast when result is true
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Downloads preserve their existing browser behavior and add iOS share-sheet handling without a confirmed merge-blocking issue.

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Inline comments:
In `@frontend/src/lib/download.ts`:
- Around line 59-66: Update saveFileFromUrl’s iOS home-screen branch to catch
failures from fetchWrapperBlob, show the existing failure toast, and only call
saveFile after a successful fetch. Preserve the existing non-iOS saveViaAnchor
path; do not add separate response validation.

In `@frontend/src/pages/SessionDetail.tsx`:
- Line 423: Update handleExportSession and the Markdown export chain so
downloadMarkdown returns a success result propagated from saveFile and
saveViaShareSheet; represent cancellation, share-unavailable, retry, and generic
share-error outcomes as unsuccessful. Await the result in handleExportSession
and emit the “Exported to ...” toast only when the export succeeds.

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Fixed 4 file(s) based on 2 CodeRabbit feedback item(s).

Files modified:

  • frontend/src/lib/download.ts
  • frontend/src/lib/download.test.ts
  • frontend/src/lib/exportSession.ts
  • frontend/src/pages/SessionDetail.tsx

Commit: cc9965be

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* fix(download): keep iOS home screen app saves in-app via the share sheet

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