Render the weather example correctly on Android

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Brings the Android renderer in line with the fixed Windows renderer and the browser for the weather example. Needs the core PR for bold text and :root padding.

• Scale the app's gea.designWidth to the real surface width, reading it from package.json when inspect doesn't report it.
• Scroll rails no longer move twice as far as the finger. The engine already offsets a scroller's children, and the ScrollView moved them again, so taps after scrolling hit the wrong chip.
• Use the platform touch slop, so a tap on a chip isn't lost to finger jitter. Only mostly-sideways travel pans a rail.
• overflow other than visible now clips, and so do scrollers, using outline clipping because the ViewGroup clip flags have no effect without padding. object-fit: cover/none images crop to their box.
• Text sits in its CSS line box (half-leading from font metrics) instead of hard-coded px nudges tuned at DPR 1.5. Single-line text-align: center works.
• Fetch threads detach from the JVM; object-fit is applied to images.

Verified: full debug APK build (Java + NDK). Not yet checked on a device: rail swiping 1:1, tapping a chip after scrolling, centred forecast labels, and the vertical position of the hero text.

Related PRs (merge core first):

• core: Engine fixes for the weather cross-platform example core#60
• cli: Add a gea.designWidth manifest field cli#3
• docs: https://github.com/geastack/docs/pull/1
• apple: Render the weather example correctly on macOS and iOS apple#3
• windows: Scale to gea.designWidth and render the weather example correctly on Windows windows#6
• simulator: Inline the app's .env in the web dev server simulator#8
• examples: Make weather a cross-platform example (Android, iOS, macOS, Windows) examples#2

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• Improvements
  • Android apps can use their configured design width to determine display scaling at runtime.
  • Images now support fill, contain, cover, none, and scale-down sizing, with overflow clipped to the view.
  • Scrolling responds more naturally to touch gestures, and content inside scrollable areas stays positioned correctly.
  • Text alignment and vertical placement are more consistent across Android devices.

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The Android build and native view now handle design-width-based pixel scaling and updated image, overflow, scroll, and text presentation. Android JNI network calls now manage native-thread attachment and use copied bridge references without holding the mutex during Java calls.

Changes

Native view behavior

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Design-width scaling targets/android/build-android.sh, targets/android/native/GeaNativeView.java.in	The build script reads and passes the app’s design width. The native view calculates pixel ratio from design width and surface width when both are positive.
Image-fit and overflow presentation targets/android/native/android_jni.cpp.in, targets/android/native/GeaNativeView.java.in	The node snapshot appends the image-fit value. The native view maps image-fit values to Android scale types and applies overflow clipping.
Scroll and text positioning targets/android/native/GeaNativeView.java.in	Native scroll gestures use Android’s scaled touch slop and select an axis based on available scrolling and gesture direction. Child placement accounts for actual scroll offsets. Text positioning uses line gravity and font-metric half-leading.

JNI network calls

Layer / File(s)	Summary
JNI thread and bridge handling targets/android/native/android_network.cpp	JNI environment handling attaches native threads when needed and detaches threads attached by this code. androidConnected() and androidFetch() copy bridge references under the mutex, then call Java without holding it.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: dashersw

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 665a1

Small images using scale-down can appear enlarged on Android. Fix this bounded rendering issue or explicitly accept it before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 665a1

Android network calls can now run concurrently instead of waiting behind one another. That should prevent a slow fetch from blocking connectivity checks, but a burst of fetches may create many simultaneous threads and connections. No new network privilege or exposure beyond the Android app is evident.

Retained concerns

• Medium · reliability · inferred: Releasing the bridge mutex across Java fetches removes the previous serialization point. If repeated fetches are reachable, the unchanged per-request Java worker can multiply simultaneous threads and connections, weakening availability containment within the Android app.

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Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The identified concurrency exposure concerns threads, connections, and availability in the Android app process. The inspected change does not establish a new credential, Java method authority, or cross-service dependency.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — If attacker-influenced app behavior can initiate many fetches, calls no longer wait for the prior JNI serialization and can accumulate Java workers and connections. Attacker reachability and any upstream concurrency control were not established.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The existing native-to-Java boundary still uses registered static bridge methods. The Java fetch has timeouts and connection cleanup; JNI exceptions retain fallback handling. No bridge deletion or replacement path appears in the inspected native implementation.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — The attachment guard covers successful native attachment, failed attachment, already-attached callers, repeated calls, and thread exit. Its VM-lifetime assumption cannot be checked against an Android unload or reinitialization path from the available source.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Consider a bounded fetch queue or concurrency limit separate from the JNI reference mutex, preserving responsive connectivity checks without relying on serialized Java calls for resource containment.

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Map scale-down to CENTER_INSIDE.

If a bitmap is smaller than its image box, FIT_CENTER enlarges it. CSS object-fit: scale-down must leave that bitmap at its natural size. Android’s CENTER_INSIDE keeps a smaller bitmap unscaled and shrinks a larger bitmap to fit. (w3.org)

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-        case 4: scaleType = ImageView.ScaleType.FIT_CENTER; break;   // scale-down
+        case 4: scaleType = ImageView.ScaleType.CENTER_INSIDE; break; // scale-down

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	case 4: scaleType = ImageView.ScaleType.FIT_CENTER; break; // scale-down
	case 4: scaleType = ImageView.ScaleType.CENTER_INSIDE; break; // scale-down

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Review comment at @targets/android/native/GeaNativeView.java.in at line 1989:
Update the scale-down mapping in the switch case identified by `case 4` to use
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