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All notable changes to mob_dev are documented here.

Format: Keep a Changelog. Versioning: SemVer.

Full module documentation: hexdocs.pm/mob_dev.

[0.5.17]

Fixed

  • iOS simulator deploy now boots from a clean mix mob.deploy --native (was device-only). Three gaps made the sim deploy incomplete vs the device path, so the sim crashed on boot even though the device worked:
    • The Elixir-distribution apps elixir/logger were staged only under lib/<app>/ebin, which the sim's mob_beam.m doesn't add to the code path — boot failed at ensure_all_started(:elixir) with "elixir.app not found". They're now flattened into the flat BEAMS_DIR alongside eex (which already needed this), where the path resolves.
    • priv/ was only partially staged (repo/migrations), so Application.app_dir(:<app>, "priv/cacerts.pem") was :enoent and Mob.Certs.load_cacerts! crashed the boot. The whole priv/ is now rsynced into the flat dir (cacerts, mix/hex ebins, vendored static, …), matching the device release.
    • Paths.sim_runtime_dir/0 fell back to /tmp/otp-ios-sim for zig-based projects (no ios/build.sh), but the runtime is synced to ~/.mob/runtime/ios-sim — so the launcher and staging disagreed. It now recognizes ios/build.zig and returns the default runtime dir. Verified: a clean mob.deploy --native to an iPhone 11 Pro Max sim boots Io, Phoenix endpoint up, embedded Livebook home renders — no manual runtime fixups.

[0.5.16]

Fixed

  • Gate the plugin flags on the iOS device build path too. 0.5.15 gated the plugin-flag emission for Android and the iOS simulator build, but zig_build_binary_ios_device still emitted -Dplugin_swift_files/-Dplugin_frameworks (and generated the bootstrap, making plugin_swift_files always non-empty) unconditionally — so mix mob.deploy --native to a physical iPhone broke on an app scaffolded before the plugin system (invalid option: -Dplugin_swift_files). The device path now mirrors the sim path: bootstrap + flags only when plugins are activated. Verified mix mob.deploy --native to a physical iPhone — full OTP, Phoenix endpoint up, LiveView connected, embedded Livebook home rendered.

[0.5.15]

Fixed

  • mix mob.release --android --no-slim now actually ships the full OTP tree. The Android release stripped OTP libs unconditionally (OtpAssetBundle.build/2 was called with no opts), so --no-slim was silently ignored on Android. slim is now threaded build_aab → OtpAssetBundle.build(slim:); with slim: false the OTP tree ships untouched. Required for apps that run arbitrary user code at runtime (e.g. an embedded Livebook host doing Mix.install) — stripping any OTP lib (inets, ssl, xmerl, runtime_tools, …) is a latent crash when a user's deps need it. Default stays slim: true.
  • iOS --no-slim release passes App Store validation. The always-on Apple-policy strip cleared erts-*/bin and priv/bin but missed standalone executables inside OTP libs (e.g. erl_interface/bin/erl_call), which App Store validation rejects (90171). Now lib/*/bin/* executables are stripped too (always on), keeping every lib's .beam/.app — so a full-OTP --no-slim bundle is still Apple-compliant.
  • Native builds no longer break on pre-plugin app scaffolding. native_build.ex emitted -Dplugin_c_nifs/-Dplugin_zig_nifs/-Dplugin_jni_sources (Android) and -Dplugin_swift_files/-Dplugin_frameworks (iOS) unconditionally, but an app scaffolded before the plugin system has no such options in its build.zig and Zig rejects the unknown -D flag. These flags (and the iOS plugin bootstrap) are now emitted only when plugins are activated; a plugin-aware build.zig defaults them to "" so behaviour is unchanged there.

[0.5.14]

Fixed

  • iOS release: erl_errno_id_unknown shim written with a literal \n. The weak-stub line in release_device.sh used printf '%s\\n' inside the ~S (raw) heredoc, so bash received both backslashes and printf wrote a literal backslash-n into erl_errno_id_compat.c — clang then rejected the trailing }\n and mix mob.release --ios failed. Now printf '%s\n' (one backslash) emits a real newline. Regression guard added to release_script_test.
  • iOS release: clear preflight when priv/generated/driver_tab_ios.c is missing. The release links a per-app static-NIF driver table, but the dev build uses the built-in Zig table and mix mob.regen_driver_tab defaults to Zig, so a project that never ran it with --format c died deep in release_device.sh with a cryptic cc: no such file. build_ipa now fails early with the exact command to run (mix mob.regen_driver_tab --format c).

[0.5.13]

Fixed

  • iOS deploy now ships the whole priv/, not just priv/repo/migrations + priv/static. MobDev.Release's iOS bundler copied only migrations and priv/static, so apps that bundle extra runtime assets under priv/ — :mix/:hex ebins for on-device Mix.install, or a vendored library's own priv/ (e.g. Livebook's priv/static + priv/livebook) — silently never reached the device. Now rsyncs all of priv/, matching the Android deployer. Unblocks on-device Mix.install and embedded Livebook on iOS. Verified on a physical iPhone: priv/mix/ebin (103 beams) and priv/livebook/static present on device, embedded Livebook serves, and Mix.install([{:short_uuid, "~> 0.1"}]) returns :ok.

[0.5.12]

Changed

  • OTP runtime bumped to 7d46fdd4 (Elixir 1.20.0-rc.5). @otp_hash now points at the otp-7d46fdd4 release: all four platform tarballs (ios-sim, ios-device, android, android-arm32) bundle Elixir 1.20.0-rc.5 matched to the OTP-29 erts. Completes the 1.19.5 to 1.20 runtime migration the bundled-versions manifest was already staged for. Verified end-to-end on a physical iPhone and a physical Android (Moto G): System.version 1.20.0-rc.5, OTP 29, Mix.install([{:short_uuid, "~> 0.1"}]) returns :ok with the dep compiled on-device.

Fixed

  • iOS {spawn, <linked-in driver>} now works (erts erts_open_driver). The iOS-build #ifdef __IOS__ guard returned BADARG for any open_port whose spawntype included the EXECUTABLE bit (i.e. plain {spawn, Name}), firing before the linked-in-driver name lookup. This broke ram_file ({spawn, "ram_file_drv"}), and therefore `file:open(, [:ram]),erl_tarin-memory extract,hex_tarball.unpack, andMix.installon iOS. The guard now fires only when no linked-in driver matched the name. Bundled in the7d46fdd4` OTP tarballs.

[0.5.11]

Added

  • mob.exs :project_swift_sources config key — optional list of extra Swift sources to compile into the iOS app module alongside Mob's bridge sources. Threaded into both zig_build_binary_ios_sim and zig_build_binary_ios_device as -Dproject_swift_sources=<absolute,paths>. Comma-containing entries are rejected at the boundary; nil/[] is a no-op. Pairs with mob_new's project_swift_sources build hook (mob_new#5). Originally proposed by @dl-alexandre.

[0.5.10]

Added

  • mix mob.deploy --dist-port N and --node-suffix S flags — manual override path for the BEAM-distribution surface. When set, all targeted devices use the same value (use with --device <id> to be explicit). Nil falls back to per-device auto-allocation (Tunnel.dist_port(idx) + Discovery.Android.device_node_suffix / SIMULATOR_UDID-derived suffix). Resolves the register/listen error: no_reg_reply_from_epmd symptom seen when running multiple sims/emulators of the same app concurrently for cross-platform visual comparison.
  • MobDev.Device struct gains a :node_suffix field for plumbing the override per-device alongside :dist_port. Nil keeps auto-derive.
  • MobDev.Discovery.IOS.launch_app/3 accepts :node_suffix opt and forwards as SIMCTL_CHILD_MOB_NODE_SUFFIX to the launched sim. Companion to mob 0.6.10's MOB_NODE_SUFFIX support in mob_beam.m.
  • MobDev.Discovery.IOS.build_simctl_env/2 — pure helper extracted from launch_app/3 so override behaviour is unit-testable without spawning simctl. 7 new tests cover dist_port + node_suffix override paths.

Changed

  • MobDev.Connector.restart_app/1 pattern-matches :node_suffix from Device in both Android + iOS-sim variants, threading the value to the launchers.
  • MobDev.Deployer.deploy_all/1 accepts top-level :dist_port + :node_suffix opts; threaded through deploy_android and deploy_ios_simulator.

[0.5.9]

Changed

  • mix mob.enable tflite now injects {:nx_tflite_mob, "~> 0.0.3"} (Hex) instead of the GitHub-branch form. nx_tflite_mob v0.0.3 went live on Hex with 16 integration tests + a reproducible Mac host build path (see its CHANGELOG). Downstream Mob apps now get version-pinned deps + clean mix deps.tree output, instead of a transient github: checkout.

Notes

  • The Mac host-build path in nx_tflite_mob is for that package's own test suite, not for downstream consumers — production phone builds via mix mob.deploy --native continue to use the prebuilt Android AAR + iOS xcframework that mob_dev's MobDev.TfliteDownloader fetches.

[0.5.8]

Added

  • End-to-end mix mob.enable tflite — what 0.5.7 promised as "lands in 0.5.8". MobDev.NativeBuild now auto-detects the :nx_tflite_mob dep and threads the full TFLite path through Android + iOS sim + iOS device build pipelines:
    • maybe_build_tflite/1 → MobDev.TfliteDownloader.ensure/1 + MobDev.TfliteNif.build/2 for each target arch
    • tflite_zig_args_android/1 emits -Dtflite_static=true -Dtflite_lib=… for the per-ABI Android link
    • tflite_zig_args_ios/1 emits -Dtflite_static=true -Dtflite_dir=… -Dtflite_framework_dir=… for the iOS link
    • copy_tflite_runtime_lib_android/2 drops libtensorflowlite_jni.so into android/app/src/main/jniLibs/<abi>/ during the assemble step
  • copy_tflite_frameworks_ios/3 (kept as future-compat hook) — see the iOS-deploy-fix gotcha below
  • 13 new tests covering the public NativeBuild plumbing (native_build_tflite_test.exs), bringing the TFLite suite to 76 passing total

Fixed

  • iOS deploy: TFLite framework binaries are MH_OBJECT, not MH_DYLIB. TFLite's iOS xcframework slices ship their binaries as filetype=1 relocatable objects, which the linker statically pulls into the app's main Mach-O at build time. Trying to embed them as runtime .framework bundles tripped iOS install twice during this cut: first on missing per-framework Info.plist (which CocoaPods generates), then on "code signature version no longer supported" (iOS 26+ rejects v1 signatures, and codesign only makes v3 sigs for MH_EXECUTE/MH_DYLIB). The fix is to do nothing — the framework search-path arg already covers everything at build time.
  • Resolve :nx_tflite_mob via Mix.Project.deps_paths() rather than Path.join(deps_path, "nx_tflite_mob"). The latter assumes the dep landed in deps/ (hex / git deps do), but path: deps consume in-place from the user's source tree.

Verified on real hardware

  • Moto G Power 5G (BXM-8-256, Android 15): 75-117 ms YOLOv8n via NNAPI / mtk-gpu_shim
  • iPhone SE 3rd gen (A15, iOS 26.4): 24 ms YOLOv8n via Core ML → ANE (FP16 model; 214/385 nodes delegated)

[0.5.7]

Added

  • mix mob.enable tflite — wires TensorFlow Lite into a Mob project on iOS AND Android. Adds {:nx_tflite_mob, ...} to deps and generates <App>.TfliteInit (returns per-platform default delegate opts — NNAPI/mtk-gpu_shim on Android, Core ML delegate on iOS). The static-NIF table entry %{module: :tflite_nif, guard: "MOB_STATIC_TFLITE_NIF"} is registered in MobDev.StaticNifs.default_nifs/0, so the zig build picks it up automatically once tflite_static=true is set.
  • MobDev.TfliteDownloader — fetches tensorflow-lite-2.16.1.aar (Maven Central, Android) and TensorFlowLiteC-2.17.0.tar.gz (dl.google.com, iOS) into ~/.mob/cache/. Honours MOB_CACHE_DIR for test redirection and MOB_TFLITE_LOCAL_TARBALL_DIR for offline iteration.
  • MobDev.TfliteNif — cross-compiles tflite_nif.c (from the :nx_tflite_mob dep) per-arch and archives as libtflite_nif.a for static linking. Mirrors MobDev.NxEigenNif shape. Validates the produced symbol (tflite_nif_nif_init) before declaring success.

Bundle size impact: ~3-4 MB extracted (Android libtensorflowlite_jni.so), ~20-30 MB on iOS (TensorFlowLiteC + CoreML + Metal frameworks). Apps that don't enable TFLite pay zero size cost — the guard keeps the static-NIF table entry inactive.

End-to-end deploy (mob.deploy --native auto-build + runtime-lib embedding) lands in 0.5.8; this release ships the building blocks.

[0.5.6]

Added

  • CLAUDE.md "Release flow" section pointing at the canonical process in mob/RELEASE.md (URL form so it resolves without a local mob checkout). mob_dev specifics: the pre-push hook additionally runs mix mob.security_scan here (this is the only repo that ships the scanner), and the OTP tarball workflow stays separate from mix.exs version bumps.
  • .githooks/pre-push — same script shipped in mob (cheap preflight always, release preflight when mix.exs changed). The mob.security_scan step is gated via mix help availability so the same hook script works in all three repos.

[0.5.5]

Fixed

  • Android 15 segfault on launch (Pixel 7+, after the OS rolled out via OTA). Bumps @otp_hash from 550d7b78 → d9045670 to pick up OTP tarballs cross-compiled with -Wl,-z,max-page-size=16384. Without the flag, every .so in the bundled OTP runtime (crypto.so, asn1rt_nif.so, dyntrace.so, etc.) shipped with 4KB-aligned ELF PT_LOAD segments. Android 15 enforces 16KB alignment on devices with 16KB-page kernels and refuses to load misaligned libs, crashing the app at startup. New tarballs are 16KB-aligned (Align=0x4000).

[0.5.4]

Fixed

  • HexDocs source links pointed at the non-existent main branch — corrected to master so each </> glyph in generated docs opens the actual source file.

Added

  • .github/workflows/test.yml — runs mix test, mix format --check-formatted, mix credo --strict, and mix mob.security_scan on push to master and on every PR.
  • .github/workflows/release.yml — on tag push, creates a GitHub Release whose body is the matching ## [X.Y.Z] section from this changelog.

[0.5.3]

Changed

  • guides/nifs.md — rewrote the "Nx backends on mobile" section to match the current state (mix mob.enable nxeigen now real, mix mob.enable mlx includes the Metal GPU path on iOS device, EXLA "why not" preserved).
  • guides/nifs.md — restructured the multi-Rust-NIF section to lead with filmor's preferred shape (one Rustler crate per app, multiple #[rustler::nif] functions inside it). Multi-crate static linking remains supported and documented as an escape hatch, with the specific tradeoffs called out.

[0.5.2]

Added

  • mix mob.enable nxeigen — wires NxEigen (Eigen C++ CPU backend) into a Mob app. Builds as a C++ :static_nifs entry, cross-compiled per arch (arm64-ios, arm64-iossim, arm64-android, armv7a-android). FFT support uses Eigen's bundled kissfft.
  • EMLX Metal GPU enabled on iOS device. lib/mob_dev/mlx_downloader.ex now fetches the Metal-enabled libmlx.a + mlx.metallib bundle; lib/mob_dev/native_build.ex#maybe_bundle_mlx_metallib/2 copies the precompiled kernel library into the .app at build time, so EMLX.Backend with device: :gpu works on device without runtime kernel compilation.
  • scripts/release/mlx/ios_device_metal.sh + supporting build scripts for producing the Metal-enabled tarball; scripts/release/mlx/patches/0001-ios-metal-build.patch patches MLX 0.25.1's CMakeLists to switch SDK from macosx to iphoneos based on CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME.

[0.5.1] and earlier

Earlier releases predate this changelog; consult the tag list and the per-tag commit messages for history.