feat: let phone and TV apps create independent display sessions

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Summary

Phone and TV apps currently own UI tied to their original device. A desktop mod needs a separate session to display those apps without moving their canvases or triggering phone/TV navigation.

This adds an opt-in hosting contract to S1API. An app implements IExternalAppHost and creates an IExternalAppSession under a container supplied by the display mod. The session owns its UI and cleanup. App authors need no UsableComputer reference.

ExternalAppCatalog exposes eligible apps, icons, and change notifications. Phone/TV creation and destruction update the catalog; device resets and scene transitions clear stale entries. Legacy apps stay off external displays and receive an explanatory diagnostic. Opted-out apps are omitted. Apps call ExternalAppCatalog.Refresh(host) on the game thread when eligibility changes; displays receive a catalog change and retain responsibility for closing their sessions.

This supplies the S1API side of UsableComputer's app bridge. The desktop adapter remains in UsableComputer. The PR targets beta because validation used Schedule I 0.4.7f6.

Compatibility

• Public/protected API: adds IExternalAppHost, IExternalAppSession, ExternalAppCatalog, ExternalAppRegistration, ExternalAppDiagnostic, and ExternalAppFamily in S1API.ExternalHosting. Existing member signatures and inheritance contracts are unchanged.
• Existing defaults and behavior: hosting requires explicit opt-in. Original phone/TV UI ownership and navigation remain unchanged. Catalog listener exceptions are isolated. Registering the same instance is a no-op; a replacement instance of the same app type takes its place, and removing the old instance preserves the replacement.
• Stable IDs, saves, and network payloads: existing identities and formats are unchanged. New catalog IDs include device family, assembly, type, and app name; they are process-local and are not written to saves or sent over the network. Conflicting types with the same catalog ID are rejected with a warning.

The compatibility assessment combines the source diff, contract tests, and runtime checks below. Microsoft ApiCompat and public documentation coverage are checked by the required hosted documentation job. This PR does not change the package version.

Validation

The original runtime evidence below applies to 07f04b3. Review fixes are in 508f8ef: eligibility refresh and selected phone-icon resolution. Its local suites passed 734 Mono and 720 IL2CPP tests, and a local integration with #329 passed 740 Mono and 720 IL2CPP tests. Both builds reported zero warnings/errors. Additional live icon and multiplayer checks were stopped to free local CPU before feature assertions; no new live pass is claimed.

Mono

MonoMelon build passed. Full S1API contract suite: 734 passed, including ten external-hosting tests.

IL2CPP

Il2CppMelon build passed. Full S1API contract suite: 720 passed, including the same ten external-hosting tests.

Runtime evidence

UsableComputer's bridge checks passed on both runtimes with Schedule I 0.4.7f6 and MelonLoader 0.7.3, on initial load and after a separate-process save reload. They exercised late phone/TV registration, removal, opt-out, desktop ID collision recovery, scene suspension, dynamic UI layers, original-device state preservation, and cleanup of successful and failed sessions. In-world screenshots were reviewed.

The runtime harness and generated evidence remain outside this S1API PR. The consumer's validation notes record the tested source revisions and scope.

Documentation

Added XML documentation for the hosting interfaces, catalog, metadata, and diagnostics. It describes session ownership, game-thread callbacks, and borrowed icon ownership. A consumer integration guide is available in UsableComputer's hosting documentation.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added support for independently hosted phone and TV apps, with separate app identities, titles, and optional icons.
  • Added catalog updates for app registration, replacement, and removal, along with diagnostics for apps that don’t support independent hosting.
  • External app registrations and diagnostics are cleared when the relevant device family is reset or the scene changes.

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Walkthrough

The change adds public contracts for external app hosting and a catalog for phone and TV app registrations. App lifecycle hooks update the catalog, which exposes registration and diagnostic snapshots and notifies listeners when catalog data changes.

Changes

External app catalog

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Catalog contracts and registration S1API/ExternalHosting/IExternalAppHost.cs, S1API/ExternalHosting/ExternalAppCatalog.cs, S1API.Tests/ExternalHosting/ExternalAppCatalogTests.cs	Adds host and session contracts, registration and diagnostic metadata, and catalog operations for filtering, snapshots, and change notifications. Tests cover family-specific identities, registration replacement and removal, and excluded apps.
App lifecycle and catalog clearing S1API/ExternalHosting/ExternalAppCatalog.cs, S1API/PhoneApp/PhoneApp.cs, S1API/TVApp/TVApp.cs, S1API/Internal/Patches/HomeScreen.Start.cs, S1API/Internal/Patches/TVPatches.cs, S1API.Tests/ExternalHosting/ExternalAppCatalogTests.cs	Phone and TV app creation and destruction update the catalog. Startup, TV registry clearing, and scene changes clear catalog data. Tests cover family-specific and scene-change clearing.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant PhoneApp
  participant TVApp
  participant ExternalAppCatalog
  participant ChangedSubscribers
  PhoneApp->>ExternalAppCatalog: Register phone app metadata
  TVApp->>ExternalAppCatalog: Register TV app metadata
  ExternalAppCatalog->>ChangedSubscribers: Notify after catalog update

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 07f04

Display mods can see apps that have opted out, miss apps that have opted in, or receive no icon for a phone app that displays one. Resolve these catalog mismatches before merging.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 36.36% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 33 functions across 7 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: enabling phone and TV apps to create independent display sessions.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description follows the required template and covers the summary, compatibility impact, validation for Mono and IL2CPP, runtime evidence, and documentation. It also states known validation limitat…

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Inline comments:
In @S1API/ExternalHosting/ExternalAppCatalog.cs:
- Around line 110-111: Update the catalog flow around AllowExternalHosting so
eligibility changes after registration refresh the host’s GetAll() entry and
notify consumers when it changes. Use SampleHost to identify the runtime
eligibility-change pattern, and preserve the existing behavior of excluding
opted-out hosts and including hosts that opt in later.

In @S1API/PhoneApp/PhoneApp.cs:
- Line 179: Update the ResolveIcon callback that currently returns IconSprite to
return the same selected icon used by SpawnIcon, including icons loaded through
IconFileName and pending SetIconSprite values.

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📒 Files selected for processing (7)

• S1API.Tests/ExternalHosting/ExternalAppCatalogTests.cs
• S1API/ExternalHosting/ExternalAppCatalog.cs
• S1API/ExternalHosting/IExternalAppHost.cs
• S1API/Internal/Patches/HomeScreen.Start.cs
• S1API/Internal/Patches/TVPatches.cs
• S1API/PhoneApp/PhoneApp.cs
• S1API/TVApp/TVApp.cs

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Both review findings are addressed in 508f8ef, with replies in their threads. The eligibility regression tests and full local suites passed on Mono and IL2CPP, and the required hosted checks are green.

The bot's function-level docstring warning does not match this repository's public API coverage policy. The new public contract is documented, and the required documentation coverage and ApiCompat checks passed. Additional live icon verification remains incomplete, as noted in the PR description.