The card no longer swallows the tap: it covered the whole row and OnItemClick never fired. It paints, nothing more - HitTest false - and its children keep theirs. The two buttons take a Left and a Right rather than fixed coordinates, which put them outside the frame.
The sync password joins the URL and the token: it is a server parameter, and it filled the home screen although it is typed once. The panel opens by itself when one of the three is missing - folding away empty fields hides the only thing left to do.
And an HTML probe, to answer a question rather than argue it: the same list painted by the system engine. It renders well, Arabic included. Two lessons: FMX passes a nil encoding to loadDataWithBaseURL, and this source file carries no byte-order mark, so Delphi reads it as ANSI and an Arabic literal is already broken at compile time - hence the numeric references. Neither is a weakness of the engine, which is what I first suspected.
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The cross moves inside the search field, where it belonged. My first attempt failed with a TLabel, whose HitTest is false by default, and I concluded too quickly that no child of a TEdit can take a touch. A TRectangle takes it.
Buttons drop the pill and take the fields' radius: a stadium beside a 14-radius field put two shape vocabularies on one line, and consistency is worth more here than fidelity to the reference.
List entries get their own block, like the detail fields - on a gradient a bare line of text has no readable edge. And each row carries User and Pass buttons, so the commonest gesture no longer requires opening the entry.
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Showing and hiding the clear button changed the field's width on every keystroke, so the whole row jumped. Its slot is now reserved permanently and only the cross itself appears - the field keeps one width.
The magnifier also fades once typing starts: it was there to say what the field is, and once there is a query it tells you nothing you cannot see.
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A radius of 24 kept them fully rounded even after the fill was hollowed out, so a text field still read as a command. They now take 14, the same as the row buttons - rounded, unmistakably rectangular.
The search field loses the stadium shape of Android's global search along with the others, since one style serves every edit. Its magnifier is what identifies it now. Giving it back its own shape means cloning the style entry, which is worth doing only if the shape is missed.
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The app sat in a frame that did not belong to it: a grey status bar above, a WHITE navigation bar below, under a blue background. The reference bathes both in the same gradient, and that is what makes an app look like it occupies the screen rather than being placed on it.
Each bar takes one end of the gradient - top colour above, bottom colour below - so the continuity is exact. The FLAG_SECURE condition moved from the uses clause into the body of SecureScreen, since the same JNI imports now serve the bars, which must work in debug too.
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They carried the same fill and the same pill, so the password field looked like a command. A field now holds 10 per cent white against a button's 18 and a main action's 30 - hollow against raised, which is the only cue left once borders are gone.
The settings panel also reclaimed the top of the screen, above the title: created hidden, FMX moves it to the head of the stack when it becomes visible. Its position is now reasserted each time it appears.
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A fixed radius of 26 on a button only 40 tall makes the corners meet, and the shape stops being a rounded rectangle at all. The radius is now recomputed from the height whenever it changes - the height is set after creation, which is why a constant could never be right.
And the small row buttons take a moderate radius rather than the full pill: they are low and wide, and a stadium shape read as an oval. The fully rounded form stays where the reference puts it, on the main actions.
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Not the desktop's slate any more: a blue gradient behind, blocks that are only translucent white laid over it, no borders at all, wide radii, white text. Depth comes from transparency, which is why the frames are gone - a hairline reads as a desktop application immediately.
There is no coloured accent in the reference either: primary and secondary differ by how much white they carry, 30 against 18 per cent. The 2FA code goes white, carried by its size. Nothing is uppercase - the second plane is marked by colour and size alone.
Three compiler traps on the way, all worth knowing: TBrush needs FMX.Graphics in the INTERFACE clause, a fresh TGradient already runs top to bottom, and TForm already owns a parameterless PaintBackground that shadowed the unit's.
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The Contents API maps term for term onto what is already written: it returns the file with its sha and demands that sha to write, answering 409 on a stale one - exactly the roles of the ETag and the 412. The desktop's bounded reread-remerge-repush loop would work unchanged.
It also settles the one remaining obstacle: nothing to host, no certificate, outside access for free. Records the calls, and why the answer is a private Gitea rather than GitHub - git history never forgets, so every past snapshot stays readable under whatever sync password was current then. Survivable on your own disk, not on a third party's.
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The theme still is not the one from the global search - the blue and the pill were taken, not the spacing or the density. And a larger one: whether there should be Delphi controls at all, when the desktop shows no native controls either and serves the same HTML in a WebView.
Worth deciding before investing further in the current interface: every display fix made today would be thrown away.
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Cyan came from the desktop app. On the phone the reference is the system: its global search and its own apps are blue, and an app should look like the place it runs.
Accent #3B82F6 on the same slate, with white on the accent since blue is darker than cyan. The launcher icon and the launch screen follow - a cyan padlock in front of a blue interface would have read as a different app.
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With the screen lock gone the cache stays sealed under a key the device can no longer use - correct, and final. But the app kept showing Open vault, which can only fail, and called the other button Sync when what is needed is a full replacement.
A session flag remembers that the cache refused to open. The file is still not touched; only the offer changes - Open vault disappears, the remaining button reads Download vault, and the status says why.
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I had followed the desktop capture - a squared field with slightly rounded corners - without thinking of the search bar the phone itself uses. On a phone that pill is the reference, and the app should look like where it runs.
Edits become pills; the memo keeps its sober corners. A magnifier is drawn inside the field, as a circle and a handle rather than a glyph, since no font is guaranteed across devices. Drawing inside a TEdit works - it is only the clickable that does not, which is why the clear cross stays beside it.
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Removing the screen lock left no way forward: the cache is marked protected so it refuses to open, and the download that would have replaced it was blocked by the very gate I added to Sync yesterday. Neither door.
The gate now applies only when the device can actually authenticate. Demanding an authentication the phone can no longer produce protects nobody - the content comes from the server, and it is the sync password that guards it.
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It was a TLabel, and in FMX a label does not take clicks - HitTest is False by default there. But fixing that alone would not have been enough: a child placed inside a TEdit does not reliably receive touches, the native control claims them across its whole surface.
It now sits in a wrapper next to the field, as a transparent rectangle with the cross drawn inside it - one Right and one Client, so there is no stacking order to guess either.
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Section captions go uppercase, small and muted, the way the desktop app labels TWO-FACTOR (TOTP) or CUSTOM FIELDS - the eye jumps between captions without confusing them for values. Each field sits in its own bordered box: it is the border that separates values, not the spacing. Buttons take the same thin border instead of a solid grey block.
The 2FA code turns cyan and gains its countdown bar, so a glance says whether there is time to copy it. The seconds leave the text - the bar says it better.
And a cross clears the search, shown only when there is something to clear. A label rather than a button: inside a field, a cross is touched, not commanded.
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Locking the instant the app went behind made the commonest gesture painful:
copy a password, switch across to paste it, come back - and authenticate
again, with the 2FA code once more behind a prompt.
The screen is still hidden immediately and unconditionally; that is the part
that protects, and it still runs before the recents snapshot. Only the
plaintext now survives, for thirty seconds. Long enough for a round trip,
short enough that a phone left down does not stay open. Returning in time
restores the screen you left, detail or list.
Also drops the last ClearVault, in the manual open path. Nothing in the app
destroys the cache any more - only a successful write replaces it. An
unreadable file costs a few hundred kilobytes; three times today a wrong
verdict cost the cache instead.
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The re-seal never ran and left no trace, because a branch not taken logs nothing. It logs now, verdict and reason, whether or not anything happens - the absence of a line was itself the thing that cost time.
And the verdict may have been wrong: asking canAuthenticate for BIOMETRIC_STRONG together with DEVICE_CREDENTIAL can fail outright on a device with a pattern and no enrolled fingerprint, instead of keeping what exists. It now falls back to the credential alone, which is all the key needs, and AuthenticateThen presents whichever set answered - offering something else would draw the same refusal.
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The retry I added yesterday never fired, and could not: the public key is
rebuilt through KeyFactory, so it is an ordinary RSA key with no link to the
Keystore. It encrypts perfectly well while its private half is permanently
invalidated. The re-seal therefore sealed the cache with a key nothing would
ever open again - the app asked for the sync password instead of the pattern.
Invalidation is observable at exactly one moment: reading with the private
key. LoadVault now drops the alias when the system names the cause, so the
next write mints a fresh pair instead of sealing another unopenable file.
And the caller that re-seals a plain cache asks for a fresh key outright:
protection reappearing on the device is precisely the event that invalidated
the old one.
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After the screen lock was removed and put back, the app stopped asking for the
pattern. Two gaps, both mine.
The cache had been rewritten while the device had no lock, so under the plain
key - and nothing ever moves it back. Protection was decided at write time
only, and a write happens only when a new snapshot arrives; a 304 left the
file in the clear indefinitely. It is now re-sealed on open, where the
plaintext is already in hand.
And the invalidated RSA key was never replaced. Removing a lock, or enrolling
a new fingerprint, permanently invalidates a protected key while its alias
survives. EnsureWrapKey only created the pair when the alias was absent, so it
kept reusing a dead key: every encryption failed and every write fell back to
the plain key, forever. It now deletes and regenerates on a second attempt.
Measured on device: header 1 before, 3 after the first launch.
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Removing the screen lock permanently invalidates every Keystore key that requires authentication, so the cache was unreadable for good and re-downloading was the only way out. The automatic open kept the cache and reported; only the explicit tap cleared it.
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It was in French because the conversation is, and I never asked. The desktop
app the client mirrors says Add field, Attach file, Show previous versions -
someone moving between the two would notice the seam.
Every visible string moved: buttons, statuses, detail row captions, log lines
and the biometric prompt, plus the messages the modules surface through
LastStoreError and LastBiometricError.
Code comments stay in French. They address the author, not the user, and that
is already the language of CLAUDE.md and much of the repo.
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The painted surface behind it and the style's own background were both drawing a rounded outline, nested. Now that make-style.ps1 recolours the style's, mine is redundant - and it was the outer of the two.
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Dark.style has no transparent template for an edit or a memo, so a StyleLookup at them fell back silently to the normal one and its grey background - the search field and the log were the last two things clashing with a painted interface. Since the style is vendored anyway, make-style.ps1 rebuilds it from Delphi's with those two backgrounds set to the palette. Reproducible, so a palette change does not quietly lose the patch.
The log is hidden now: it only serves diagnosis and it was taking a third of the screen at every launch. A Journal button beside the server settings brings it back.
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It stayed open until something was chosen, and there was no way to change your mind. A full-screen scrim now dims the background and takes the outside tap; the hardware back button closes the panel before anything else, which is what it is expected to do while something is open.
The list also scrolls: eight folders fit, twenty would have run off the screen. Rows are placed by coordinate inside the scroll box, with no alignment at all - the only arrangement FMX has not surprised me with today.
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The search field and the folder combo were the only things still wearing the style, and they clashed with everything painted around them.
The edit stays native - a keyboard has to come from somewhere - but its background is ours now, with the styled one made transparent. The combo becomes a painted button opening a panel of choices, placed by explicit coordinates: FMX's stacking order proved unstable as soon as children are destroyed and rebuilt, so nothing here relies on it.
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None of the styles Delphi ships is meant for a phone - grey gradients, sharp
corners, thick frames, all from the desktop era. And the day showed that
anything rendered through a style template may not exist in the style that is
actually loaded: the list row template, the search prompt and the detail row
each vanished in turn.
So the buttons are rectangles we draw: slate at rest, cyan for the one action
that matters, rounded, no gradient, with a press feedback a TRectangle does
not have on its own - without it you cannot tell whether the tap landed. The
form's own fill carries the background, the list drops its frame, labels take
the palette.
A style stays loaded underneath, as a base only: edits, list and memo are
native controls we are not going to rewrite, and with no style at all they
would render light.
Palette lives in PMA.Theme, the same slate and cyan as the desktop app.
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The launcher icon and the launch screen are different resources. On Android 12+ the theme points windowSplashScreenAnimatedIcon at splash_vector, which was Delphi's logo, over a #FFF background - a white flash before a dark app, every single launch.
Same padlock, drawn at 288 units with its content inside the central 192 the system guarantees. splash_background goes slate, in the light variant too since the app has only one theme. For Android 11 and earlier, which have no SplashScreen API and merely paint windowBackground, splash_image_def composes the background and the logo itself.
One source for the vector, copied onto the density and night variants by repack: four identical files in the repo would eventually diverge.
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The rule exists for screenshots dropped in the repo root during dev. Launcher icons are content: they regenerate from make-icons.ps1, but tracking them means not having to know that - nor depending on System.Drawing to build an APK.
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Cyan on slate, the accent the desktop app already uses. Adaptive vectors for
Android 8+ - background covering the full 108 units since the launcher applies
its own mask, foreground kept inside the central 66 that no mask can crop -
plus a monochrome layer for Android 13 themed icons, where the keyhole has to
be a hole in the path rather than a shape in another colour.
PNGs for older launchers come from make-icons.ps1, same drawing, and carry
their own rounded square since nothing masks them.
They are copied over Delphi's in repack-apk.ps1, for the same reason as
libsk4d.so: the Android_LauncherIcon and Android_AdaptiveIcon properties ought
to be enough, and nothing deploys them here.
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Dark.style has no object for the prompt text, so the search field sat there
empty and mute. A label inside the field, hit-test off so the tap goes
through, shown only while the field is empty.
Fourth time today the same conclusion: whatever FMX renders through a style
template may or may not exist in the style actually loaded. Built explicitly,
it is there.
Also noted: the row height was never wrong. 56 logical units on a 3x display
are the ~166 device pixels the screenshot showed - only the second line was
missing.
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The dark style took the row template with it: no username under the name, no
icon, and rows three times too tall. listboxitembottomdetail simply does not
exist in Dark.style, and Text/Detail/Bitmap render whatever the current style
decides.
Rows are now built explicitly - an image and a body layout, Left and Client,
where there is no order to guess - the same conclusion as the detail screen.
Same amount of code, no dependency on a template that may or may not be there.
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An Arabic attachment name displayed scrambled. Not a missed setting: FMX's original text engine does not shape complex scripts - no bidirectional reordering, no letter joining. Separating the size from the name limited the damage without removing it. Skia carries HarfBuzz and does the work.
GlobalUseSkia goes before Application.Initialize; the canvas is chosen at init and switching later does not reclaim what is already built. The price is libsk4d.so, 25 MB raw, and an APK from 13 to 22 MB.
Deploy rebuilds library\\lib just before calling aapt, so a hand-placed library disappears. A proper DeployFile entry was tried first - MSBuild ignores it, as it ignores every other one in this project. Hence repack-apk.ps1, which redoes aapt, zipalign and signing on the folder already prepared.
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URL and token are no longer constants. They sit in settings.bin, sealed with the no-auth Keystore AES key - deliberately weaker than the vault: they must be readable to rebuild a vault that no longer exists, and a bearer token only opens ENCRYPTED data, worthless without the sync password that stays in the guarded vault. Retyping 64 hex characters after every cache purge was the real risk: the risk of writing them down elsewhere. They are saved only after a fetch that worked - proven settings, not typed ones.
The token and sync password moved to the gitignored local include, as first-run defaults only. Tracked source now carries no secret, and leaving them empty is a viable configuration: the app asks.
Theme: Delphi's Dark.style, copied into the repo and linked as a resource rather than deployed as a file - this project's deployment puts nothing beside the app, which is the same hole that forces the manifest and dex staging. A failure to load is never fatal; the default look is ugly but works.
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Row order alternated: correct on first open, upside down on the next. Neither the stacking convention nor an explicit Index stabilised it. Since the first population is reliable, there is never a second one - the scroll box is destroyed and rebuilt per entry. Costs one control; removes a whole class of oddities.
The attachment size moved from the value into the caption. An Arabic filename followed by a latin size mixes two reading directions in one line, and FMX's bidirectional rendering makes a mess of it. Apart, each reads its own way.
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Synchroniser rebuilt the vault from the server and displayed it without ever asking for the pattern - the same result as Ouvrir le coffre, one button away, with the protection bypassed. It now passes the same gate, conditioned on a protected cache existing on this device, since that is what expresses the user's choice.
Row order was not merely inverted, it alternated: right on first open, upside down after a lock. FMX's stacking conventions already differ between TLayout and TVertScrollBox; after rows are destroyed and rebuilt they are not even constant. Each row now states its Index explicitly rather than trusting insertion order.
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Inside a TVertScrollBox, Align=Top children stack in creation order - the opposite of a TLayout, where the last created ends up on top. The convention that is right for the unlock screen produced an inverted form here, with the 2FA code relegated to the bottom when it is the reason you pull the phone out.
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One attachment took the cache from 13 to 174 KB: the content travels base64 in the snapshot and is decrypted in memory with the rest. TVault reads name, type and size and DROPS content_b64 - holding it for the whole vault while nothing displays it would be paying for nothing.
The detail now says a document exists. Saving it is what remains, and what blocks that is not code but where a file lands on Android 10+. When that is settled, the content re-reads from the raw JSON.
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Since Android 13 the system shows a preview of whatever was just copied, at the bottom of the screen. For a password that is precisely what we are trying to avoid: it appears in clear, outside the app, for several seconds. The flag that suppresses it is a ClipDescription extra, which IFMXClipboardService does not expose - hence going straight to ClipboardManager. Note Jcontent_ClipboardManager, not JClipboardManager: the latter is the deprecated android.text one, which knows only bare text and has no ClipData to carry an extra.
Backgrounding already locks; the idle timer covers the phone left face-up on a table with the app open. It samples timestamps every 15 s rather than counting seconds - a wake-up per second would cost battery for no precision that matters.
Attachments dropped from the plan: this vault has none.
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Write with no prompt, read under the device credential, cache surviving a cold start with no derivation, and a silent 304. Records the three traps that hid behind it, none of which the compiler could see.
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The read failed with IllegalBlockSizeException and, in logcat, KeymasterUtils status -28. setDigests() authorises the MESSAGE digest only; the MGF1 digest is a separate authorisation whose default is SHA-1 and stays SHA-1 unless setMgf1Digests is called (API 31+). Asking for MGF1-SHA-256 at decrypt time therefore hands the hardware a key that refuses.
Encryption did not complain, because the rebuilt public key is served by the software provider, which accepts any MGF1. So we produced perfectly valid ciphertext that the hardware would not read - the worst shape of bug, since it only surfaces on the next launch. Both sides now pass SHA-256 for the message and SHA-1 for the mask; SHA-1 there weakens nothing, a mask generation function needs no collision resistance.
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The prompt raised ActivityNotFoundException: FMX does not show BiometricPrompt from our NativeActivity, it launches its own BiometricFragmentActivity, which lives in fmx.dex.jar but has to be declared in the manifest. Given a translucent framework theme - it hosts the system dialog and draws nothing itself, and the generated resources contain no AppCompat.
Then the read failed and the cache vanished with no trace. LoadVault sorted 'key lost' from 'not authenticated' on the exception message and deleted the file when it guessed the former - so a wrong guess destroyed the cache and the only record of why. It now reports through LastStoreError and deletes nothing; the caller has the log and the context. OpenLocalNow shows the reason, after ShowUnlock rather than before, which was overwriting it.
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Measured on device: android.security.keystore.UserNotAuthenticatedException on every write. An AES key created with setUserAuthenticationRequired demands a recent authentication to ENCRYPT as well as to decrypt, and the write follows a silent sync with no prompt. The very first write only succeeded because the phone had just been unlocked - a test that passes, then stops passing.
Now an RSA pair: the public half wraps a throwaway AES key with no prompt, the private half - the guarded one - unwraps it. Authentication is required at read time and nowhere else. Two documented traps handled: the public key returned by the Keystore carries the private key's constraints, so it is rebuilt from its encoded form; and that rebuild changes provider, so the OAEP parameters are passed explicitly on both sides - the Keystore defaults MGF1 to SHA-1 where the transformation name suggests SHA-256.
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The launch-time auto-open received boUnavailable and wiped the cache, seconds after the write path had proved the device could authenticate. The diagnosis was wrong and the reaction irreversible. An automatic action now never clears the vault: it logs the cause and leaves the user on the unlock screen. Only an explicit tap on Open, followed by a clean refusal from the system, may clear it. PMA.Biometric keeps the reason in LastBiometricError, and a Java-layer exception now maps to boFailed rather than boUnavailable - an exception says nothing about the device. The log memo also wraps: it was cutting off exactly the end of the message, which is where the cause is named.
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A pattern lock reported "no authentication here", so the cache was written
under the plain key.
FMX builds its authenticator mask from FBiometricStrengths, and that field
starts as the EMPTY SET - the constructor never initialises it. On API 30+
CanAuthenticate therefore calls canAuthenticate(0), which never answers
"available", whatever the device can actually do. Asking before setting the
strengths cannot succeed.
Both entry points now go through AcquireService, which sets Strong +
DeviceCredential and only then hands back the service. DeviceCredential is
the point: a phone with a pattern or a PIN and no enrolled fingerprint is
the common case, not an edge one.
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Opening the vault threw java.lang.SecurityException: USE_BIOMETRIC is not in
Delphi default permission list, and CanAuthenticate raises instead of
answering false. So the fault showed up neither at compile time nor at
startup, but on the first unlock - after the cache had already been written
under an auth-protected key.
The permission is the shallow half. The deep half is that SaveVault was
called with a hard-coded True: we asked for a key guarded by a prompt that
could not be shown, producing a file that was unreadable forever. It now
receives BiometricAvailable, evaluated on the main thread before the worker
starts.
BiometricAvailable and AuthenticateThen also swallow what comes up from the
Java layer and map it to boUnavailable. The caller has a path for every
TBioOutcome and none for an exception.
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