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On network changes the client restarted the whole engine. That is heavy-handed and slow: it tears down working state to recover from a transition the engine could handle itself. This replaces the restart with proper network event handling.

Suspend the retry loops while no network is available. Instead of burning through backoff intervals against an unreachable network, the reconnection loops park until the OS reports a usable network again.

Reconnect immediately on a network switch. When the OS hands us a new network, connections bound to the old one are swept and re-dialed right away, rather than waiting for a timeout to notice they are dead.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added clear connection states for connected, connecting, disconnected, no network, login required, and error conditions.
    • Added network availability and network-switch handling to improve connection recovery.
    • Foreground notifications now update their status text and icon based on the current connection state.
  • Bug Fixes
    • The app now clearly reports when no usable network is available.
    • Improved connection-state updates across the app and service.
  • Localization
    • Added localized no-network and connection-status messages across supported languages.

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Walkthrough

The Android client now tracks network availability, propagates no-network callbacks, updates UI and foreground notification states, replaces network-change restart handling, and adds localized status strings.

Changes

Network state flow

Layer / File(s) Summary
Network detection and forwarding
tool/src/main/java/io/netbird/client/tool/networks/*, tool/src/main/java/io/netbird/client/tool/EngineRunner.java, tool/src/main/java/io/netbird/client/tool/NetworkSwitchNotifier.java
Network components track internet availability and forward availability and network-switch events to the Go client.
Service observers and lifecycle
tool/src/main/java/io/netbird/client/tool/EngineRunner.java, tool/src/main/java/io/netbird/client/tool/VPNService.java, tool/src/main/java/io/netbird/client/tool/EngineRestarter.java
Service-owned connection observers receive callbacks without a UI listener. Restart-specific listener handling and EngineRestarter are removed.
Client state and UI handling
app/src/main/java/io/netbird/client/MainActivity.java, app/src/main/java/io/netbird/client/StateListener.java, app/src/main/java/io/netbird/client/ui/home/HomeFragment.java, tool/src/main/java/io/netbird/client/tool/VPNService.java, netbird
The no-network state is mapped from Go callbacks, replayed to listeners, rendered by HomeFragment, and mapped to service notification states.
State-specific notifications
tool/src/main/java/io/netbird/client/tool/ForegroundNotification.java, tool/src/main/java/io/netbird/client/tool/SessionNotification.java, tool/src/main/res/values*/strings.xml
Foreground notifications now use state-specific icons and localized text for connection, network, login, and error states.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Mergeability Score: 🟡 Moderate · up to a8f10

The PR changes network-loss and network-switch handling without restarting the engine, but the current implementation can misreport connectivity, fail during retry when network state is absent, and leave some status UI stale. These bounded correctness and availability issues should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant NetworkChangeDetector
  participant EngineRunner
  participant VPNService
  participant ForegroundNotification
  NetworkChangeDetector-->>EngineRunner: internet availability change
  EngineRunner->>VPNService: connection-state callback
  VPNService->>ForegroundNotification: setState(connection state)
  ForegroundNotification-->>VPNService: updated foreground notification
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No-network hops across the link.
States now guide each glowing sign,
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Engine paths no longer restart—
Clean signals reach each waiting part.

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pappz force-pushed the android-airplane branch from 998224a to 3dc90a8 Compare August 11, 2026 12:29
pappz added 8 commits August 12, 2026 11:32
Track whether any network claims internet connectivity and feed the
result to the Go core, which suspends its reconnection loops instead of
retrying into a dead radio. NetworkChangeDetector now keeps the set of
available networks and reports only the transitions in and out of
"nothing available", seeding its state at registration so the engine
learns the truth even when it starts offline.

Surface the suspension: the engine reports a NoNetwork state over the
new OnStateChanged callback, and the home screen paints "No network
available" rather than a "Connecting…" that is not happening. The
per-state callbacks stay for compatibility.

Two listener defects show up once callbacks are logged.
getConnectionListener handed out the ObservingConnectionListener
wrapper, which EngineRestarter then wrapped again, so every callback was
delivered twice and stacked a further layer on each failed restart; it
now returns the raw listener. And the restart filter released on the
first non-disconnect state, which the old engine also emits while its
management and signal links drop during teardown — the Disconnected
flash it exists to hide went straight through. It now releases only
after onStopped, where the old engine's run has provably returned.
The engine restart that handled network type changes tore down the TUN
device and the peer state to fix what is really a socket-level problem:
connections bound to the old network. The Go core now exposes
NotifyNetworkChange, which cuts exactly those connections so the
reconnect loops redial on the new network — measured recovery is 1.6s
against the restart's 3.2s, with no Disconnected flash and no leak
window while the TUN is gone.

EngineRestarter is replaced by NetworkSwitchNotifier: same trigger and
debounce, and the cancel-when-reconnected guard stays because a cut
after the core already reconnected on its own would sever fresh,
working connections. The debounce drops from 2s to 1s — a cut is cheap
and idempotent, so it does not need the headroom a restart did. The
restart-only machinery goes with it: the filtering listener that hid
teardown callbacks from the UI, and EngineRunner's suppression and
listener-snapshot support, none of which have a purpose when nothing is
torn down.
The NoNetwork state shipped with only the default English string, so
localized devices fell back to English on the home screen.
Picks up the netsweep dial handoff, the relay transport read ordering, the
sweep test fix, and the reconnection resume when the network comes back.
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pappz force-pushed the android-airplane branch from 95d8586 to b2c79fc Compare August 12, 2026 09:38
@pappz pappz changed the title Proactive reconnection on network changes Handle network changes without restarting the engine Aug 12, 2026
pappz added 5 commits August 13, 2026 13:09
Replace the single status-bar icon with per-state glyphs derived from
the desktop's macOS template tray icons, which are the only variant an
Android small icon can carry (the system tints it and reads only the
alpha channel). The states mirror the desktop tray's iconForState():
connecting, connected, disconnected, no-network, needs-login and error,
with needs-login and no-network sharing the error and disconnected
glyphs because the desktop distinguishes them by color alone.

The notification text now names the state instead of the generic
service line, reusing the home screen's wording in all ten locales,
with the desktop tray translations filling the gaps.

Driving the icon exposed three staleness holes, all fixed here:

- Detaching the UI listener dropped the Go-side subscription entirely,
  freezing the icon while the app was backgrounded - exactly when the
  notification is the only visible status. The service now keeps its
  own observers subscribed through a no-op delegate.
- Re-entering the foreground assumed CONNECTING, which stuck because
  the Go core only re-emits state on an actual change (visible after a
  session extend). The state is now derived from the run-loop status.
- The engine stop that follows a session expiry overwrote the login
  prompt with a plain disconnected icon; the stop path now keeps
  NEEDS_LOGIN, which the Go side latches until a login clears it.

The session expiry notification moves to the error glyph, retiring the
old notification_icon asset.
The Go core now debounces network change notifications itself and its
sweep spares connections that reconnected on their own, so the Java
side no longer needs the debounce, the reconnect observer or the
cancelPendingAction plumbing.

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Inline comments:
In `@app/src/main/java/io/netbird/client/ui/home/HomeFragment.java`:
- Around line 696-700: Update HomeFragment.onNoNetwork() to call
updateExitNodeRow() immediately after onEngineState(EngineState.NO_NETWORK),
ensuring the exit-node row reflects the disconnected state.

In `@netbird`:
- Line 1: Update client/grpc.Retry and quickRetryBackoff.NextBackOff to check
netState for nil before calling Changed or IsOnline, preserving retry behavior
when network state is available and avoiding panics when it is absent. Run the
relevant submodule tests.

In `@tool/src/main/java/io/netbird/client/tool/EngineRunner.java`:
- Around line 299-301: Update the listener forwarding methods onAddressChanged
and onPeersListChanged in the shown ConnectionListener adapter to notify every
connectionObservers entry as well as delegate, matching the existing observer
fan-out behavior while preserving the current callback arguments.

In
`@tool/src/main/java/io/netbird/client/tool/networks/NetworkChangeDetector.java`:
- Around line 152-158: Update the initial availability seeding in
NetworkChangeDetector to use a helper such as hasNonVpnInternetNetwork,
iterating connectivityManager.getAllNetworks() and requiring both
NET_CAPABILITY_INTERNET and NET_CAPABILITY_NOT_VPN, matching the criteria used
by availableNetworks callbacks instead of getActiveNetwork().

In `@tool/src/main/java/io/netbird/client/tool/VPNService.java`:
- Around line 157-162: Preserve the latest connection phase, including
NO_NETWORK, in VPNService’s connectionObserver state handling, and use that
stored value instead of currentState() when processing INTENT_ACTION_START and
repainting the foreground notification. Update the corresponding logic in the
additional foreground-reentry path around the notification state handling so
NO_NETWORK is not converted to DISCONNECTED.
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@Override
public void onNoNetwork() {
onEngineState(EngineState.NO_NETWORK);
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Refresh the exit-node row for NO_NETWORK.

onEngineState(EngineState.NO_NETWORK) sets isConnected to false. This callback does not call updateExitNodeRow(). A previously enabled exit-node row can therefore remain enabled until another route or peer event arrives.

Call updateExitNodeRow() after onEngineState(EngineState.NO_NETWORK).

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In `@app/src/main/java/io/netbird/client/ui/home/HomeFragment.java` around lines
696 - 700, Update HomeFragment.onNoNetwork() to call updateExitNodeRow()
immediately after onEngineState(EngineState.NO_NETWORK), ensuring the exit-node
row reflects the disconnected state.

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Guard optional network state before retrying.

client/grpc.Retry and quickRetryBackoff.NextBackOff call methods on netState without checking for nil, while the added tests pass nil and exercise retry paths. Add a nil guard before calling Changed or IsOnline, then run the submodule tests.

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In `@netbird` at line 1, Update client/grpc.Retry and
quickRetryBackoff.NextBackOff to check netState for nil before calling Changed
or IsOnline, preserving retry behavior when network state is available and
avoiding panics when it is absent. Run the relevant submodule tests.

Comment on lines 299 to 301
@Override public void onAddressChanged(String f, String i) { delegate.onAddressChanged(f, i); }
@Override public void onPeersListChanged(long n) { delegate.onPeersListChanged(n); }
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Fan out onAddressChanged and onPeersListChanged to the observers as well.

connectionObservers holds full ConnectionListener instances. These two callbacks only reach delegate, so a service-owned observer never receives them. That is an inconsistent contract for the observer type and it breaks silently when a future observer relies on either callback.

♻️ Proposed fix for the fan-out gap
-        `@Override` public void onAddressChanged(String f, String i) { delegate.onAddressChanged(f, i); }
-        `@Override` public void onPeersListChanged(long n) { delegate.onPeersListChanged(n); }
+        `@Override` public void onAddressChanged(String f, String i) {
+            delegate.onAddressChanged(f, i);
+            fanOut(obs -> obs.onAddressChanged(f, i));
+        }
+        `@Override` public void onPeersListChanged(long n) {
+            delegate.onPeersListChanged(n);
+            fanOut(obs -> obs.onPeersListChanged(n));
+        }
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@Override public void onAddressChanged(String f, String i) { delegate.onAddressChanged(f, i); }
@Override public void onPeersListChanged(long n) { delegate.onPeersListChanged(n); }
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@Override public void onAddressChanged(String f, String i) {
delegate.onAddressChanged(f, i);
fanOut(obs -> obs.onAddressChanged(f, i));
}
@Override public void onPeersListChanged(long n) {
delegate.onPeersListChanged(n);
fanOut(obs -> obs.onPeersListChanged(n));
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In `@tool/src/main/java/io/netbird/client/tool/EngineRunner.java` around lines 299
- 301, Update the listener forwarding methods onAddressChanged and
onPeersListChanged in the shown ConnectionListener adapter to notify every
connectionObservers entry as well as delegate, matching the existing observer
fan-out behavior while preserving the current callback arguments.

Comment on lines +152 to +158
// Seed the availability state before callbacks arrive: when the device
// starts with no connectivity at all (e.g. airplane mode), no
// onAvailable ever fires, so the initial value must already be correct.
synchronized (internetStateLock) {
internetAvailable = connectivityManager.getActiveNetwork() != null;
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Seed the availability state from non-VPN internet networks, not getActiveNetwork().

getActiveNetwork() returns the network that serves this app, and the NetBird VPN interface itself becomes that network once the tunnel is up. The registered request at Line 160 tracks non-VPN internet networks only, so the app's own VPN network never appears in availableNetworks and never produces onLost.

If the service restarts while the VPN interface is up and the device has no underlying network, the seed sets internetAvailable = true, no callback ever corrects it, and hasInternetConnectivity() stays wrong. VPNService.onCreate pushes that value straight into engineRunner.setNetworkAvailable(...), so the Go reconnect loops never suspend.

Seed from the networks that match the same criteria as the callback instead.

🐛 Proposed fix to seed from non-VPN internet networks
     public void registerNetworkCallback() {
-        // Seed the availability state before callbacks arrive: when the device
-        // starts with no connectivity at all (e.g. airplane mode), no
-        // onAvailable ever fires, so the initial value must already be correct.
-        synchronized (internetStateLock) {
-            internetAvailable = connectivityManager.getActiveNetwork() != null;
-        }
-
+        // Seed the availability state before callbacks arrive: when the device
+        // starts with no connectivity at all (e.g. airplane mode), no
+        // onAvailable ever fires, so the initial value must already be correct.
+        // Use the same criteria as the callback below: our own VPN network is
+        // excluded, so an up tunnel cannot mask a missing underlying network.
+        synchronized (internetStateLock) {
+            internetAvailable = hasNonVpnInternetNetwork();
+        }
+
         NetworkRequest.Builder builder = new NetworkRequest.Builder();

Add the helper:

    private boolean hasNonVpnInternetNetwork() {
        for (Network network : connectivityManager.getAllNetworks()) {
            NetworkCapabilities caps = connectivityManager.getNetworkCapabilities(network);
            if (caps == null) {
                continue;
            }
            if (caps.hasCapability(NetworkCapabilities.NET_CAPABILITY_INTERNET)
                    && caps.hasCapability(NetworkCapabilities.NET_CAPABILITY_NOT_VPN)) {
                return true;
            }
        }
        return false;
    }
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// Seed the availability state before callbacks arrive: when the device
// starts with no connectivity at all (e.g. airplane mode), no
// onAvailable ever fires, so the initial value must already be correct.
synchronized (internetStateLock) {
internetAvailable = connectivityManager.getActiveNetwork() != null;
}
// Seed the availability state before callbacks arrive: when the device
// starts with no connectivity at all (e.g. airplane mode), no
// onAvailable ever fires, so the initial value must already be correct.
// Use the same criteria as the callback below: our own VPN network is
// excluded, so an up tunnel cannot mask a missing underlying network.
synchronized (internetStateLock) {
internetAvailable = hasNonVpnInternetNetwork();
}
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In
`@tool/src/main/java/io/netbird/client/tool/networks/NetworkChangeDetector.java`
around lines 152 - 158, Update the initial availability seeding in
NetworkChangeDetector to use a helper such as hasNonVpnInternetNetwork,
iterating connectivityManager.getAllNetworks() and requiring both
NET_CAPABILITY_INTERNET and NET_CAPABILITY_NOT_VPN, matching the criteria used
by availableNetworks callbacks instead of getActiveNetwork().

Comment on lines 157 to +162
if (INTENT_ACTION_START.equals(intent.getAction())) {
// MainActivity.onStart fires this on every return to the
// foreground, not just when connecting, so take the state from the
// engine: the Go core only re-emits onConnected on an actual
// change, and assuming CONNECTING here would stick until then.
fgNotification.setState(currentState());

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve NO_NETWORK during foreground re-entry.

connectionObserver sets NO_NETWORK from onStateChanged(). Line 162 later replaces that state with currentState(). currentState() has no NO_NETWORK mapping and returns DISCONNECTED for unrecognized states.

Store the latest connection phase, including NO_NETWORK, and use it when repainting the notification. Otherwise, the notification stays disconnected until another connection callback occurs.

Also applies to: 371-386

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In `@tool/src/main/java/io/netbird/client/tool/VPNService.java` around lines 157 -
162, Preserve the latest connection phase, including NO_NETWORK, in VPNService’s
connectionObserver state handling, and use that stored value instead of
currentState() when processing INTENT_ACTION_START and repainting the foreground
notification. Update the corresponding logic in the additional
foreground-reentry path around the notification state handling so NO_NETWORK is
not converted to DISCONNECTED.

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