A shell around the ipodderx-rs web UI whose audio is played by the host
rather than the page, so it carries on with the screen locked and a car can
control it. The page's half of the bridge is web/src/native.ts in
ipodderx-rs (#45): it replaces the playback surface of the page's media
element with one that posts here, so player.ts is unchanged and the player
bar, the row buttons and the keyboard shortcuts work as they always did.
Playback, Library, Bridge and CookieBridge never touch a view, which is
what makes a CarPlay scene a later addition rather than a rewrite, and what
lets the same target build for Mac Catalyst with no conditional code:
AVAudioSession, MPNowPlayingInfoCenter and the remote commands all exist
there. The Mac gets media keys and Now Playing; it has no CarPlay and no
lock screen, so it is a convenience rather than the reason for any of this.
Authentication is the web view's. ipx decides who is asking by cookie --
ipx_session, and CF_Authorization from Cloudflare Access in front of the
tunnel -- and its auth layer was written so a plain <audio src> would work,
which is why the player needs no API of its own. CookieBridge keeps
HTTPCookieStorage in step with the web view's store and hands them to each
asset.
Named ipodderx-app, not -ios: native.ts already carries the branch for an
Android host, and the iOS project is one directory rather than the repo.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
