ThreadCount Community edition

Uniform stock management for healthcare linen rooms: the coordinator app, the phone counter and the staff app, for your own server. Built from e2d6d42 on 2026-09-13. Licensed under the Functional Source License (FSL-1.1-ALv2).

capacitor.config.ts

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+import type { CapacitorConfig } from "@capacitor/cli";
+
+/* Two Android apps, one config.
+ *
+ *   npx cap sync android                    → the counter app  (tech.threadcount.app  → /m)
+ *   TC_APP=staff npx cap sync android       → the staff app    (tech.threadcount.staff → /my)
+ *
+ * The Capacitor 6 CLI has no --config flag and always reads this file from the working directory,
+ * so the alternative to branching here is swapping files around before every build — which is the
+ * kind of step that eventually ships the wrong app id to Play. One file, one env var, two
+ * `android.path`s, and neither project can overwrite the other.
+ *
+ * Both are the live site in a native shell, so the apps update when the site does and there is one
+ * copy of every rule rather than two. Each bundles only its own first-run screens, which are the
+ * only ones that must work before someone has signed in or has signal.
+ */
+const staff = process.env.TC_APP === "staff";
+
+const counter: CapacitorConfig = {
+  appId: "tech.threadcount.app",
+  appName: "ThreadCount",
+  // Splash, welcome (with the video) and the offline screen.
+  webDir: "androidshell",
+  server: {
+    androidScheme: "https",
+    cleartext: false,
+    // The shell opens on its own bundled splash and welcome, then navigates to the site — the
+    // hosted one, or the self-hosted server the welcome screen saved (Community edition rooms run
+    // their own). Any host, because the saved one cannot be known at build time; the welcome
+    // screen is the only page that chooses it, and MainActivity honours the choice only from there.
+    allowNavigation: ["*"],
+    // A page that fails to load falls back to the bundled offline screen, not a browser error.
+    errorPath: "error.html",
+  },
+  android: {
+    // A stock count is read at arm's length under ward lighting; let the OS text size apply.
+    allowMixedContent: false,
+    // captureInput is deliberately absent. It swaps the WebView's input connection for a bare
+    // BaseInputConnection that never fills in the EditorInfo, so the keyboard sees no inputType on
+    // any field: the numeric two-factor box gets a QWERTY keyboard, one-time-code autofill is
+    // never offered, and a password manager loses the hints the assetlinks file goes out of its
+    // way to enable. It only buys anything for a hardware keyboard-wedge scanner, and neither app
+    // has one — every barcode here is read through the camera.
+    webContentsDebuggingEnabled: false,
+  },
+  plugins: {
+    SplashScreen: {
+      // Just long enough to cover the WebView starting. The bundled splash draws the mark from
+      // here, so this screen is plain ink — showing the mark twice, once still and once drawing,
+      // reads as a stutter.
+      launchShowDuration: 350,
+      backgroundColor: "#201e1dff",
+      androidSplashResourceName: "splash",
+      androidScaleType: "CENTER_CROP",
+      showSpinner: false,
+    },
+  },
+};
+
+/* The staff app.
+ *
+ * A separate app rather than a role switch inside the counter app, because the audiences share
+ * nothing. The counter app goes on a handful of ward phones belonging to the people who run the
+ * linen room; this one goes on every nurse's phone. One Play listing cannot describe both, and a
+ * wearer opening an app whose home screen is a stocktake counter would reasonably conclude they
+ * had installed the wrong thing.
+ *
+ * It carries no barcode scanner and asks for no camera permission: nothing a wearer does involves
+ * scanning, and an app that every clinical staff member installs should ask for as little as it
+ * possibly can.
+ */
+const staffApp: CapacitorConfig = {
+  ...counter,
+  appId: "tech.threadcount.staff",
+  appName: "ThreadCount Staff",
+  webDir: "staffshell",
+  android: {
+    ...counter.android,
+    // Its own native project, beside the counter app's rather than replacing it.
+    path: "android-staff",
+  },
+};
+
+export default staff ? staffApp : counter;