Distances (the "Approx. 1.5 mi" report):
- Refuse junk CoreLocation fixes (invalid accuracy, or a coarse >300 m fix
within 3 km of the position already held; a coarse fix in another city is
real travel and is still accepted).
- Resolve ONE display basis per render through FuelStore.distanceDisplayOrigin,
used by rows, radius filter, sorting, savings figures and the Live Activity,
so a stray fix can no longer re-base the list outside the route cache's 600 m
ring while the routed values sit unused in the cache.
- Treat an incomplete route set as a state: retry it after 30 s rather than the
full 10-minute throttle, and repair a stale incomplete flag once every
in-radius station has a route (nothing left to route, flag stuck down).
- Widget extension resolves the same origin for fetch, radius, ordering and
labels, and keeps its own fix in fuelboard.widgetLocation instead of
overwriting the app's GPS fix.
Alerts:
- Best Value as a distinct alert mode on the existing geofence/notification
pipeline, with a persisted threshold; reverts to cheapest when the feature is
unconfigured and is not selectable while disabled.
Diagnostics (DEBUG, gated): FB_DIST_FOCUS now prints FB-DIST-ORIGIN (candidate,
accuracy, anchor, offset, resolved branch, served origin), FB_FAKE_FIX feeds a
synthetic fix through the real guard, FB_STALE_INCOMPLETE forces the stale-flag
state, and the route-fill status is surfaced in Settings behind debug mode.
Distance confidence
- Every distance surface takes the figure AND its "Approx." marker from one
FuelStore.stationDistanceDisplay call (station rows, detail sheet, widget,
Live Activity, watch, Siri), so a surface can never mark one figure approximate
while showing a routed one. Radius filters and Closest ordering test that same
displayed distance, so no row can read a distance outside the radius that
filtered it (the reported "14.6 mi inside a 10-mile list").
Accurate distances (Settings -> Distances, default off)
- Off: the browse layer serves the straight line, marked Approx., for every row,
so two installs agree to the metre and the app makes no route requests at all.
- On: routed distances for the whole search area, unmarked, served only from a
COMPLETE set anchored within 600 m — a partial fill reverts every row at once
rather than mixing road and straight-line bases.
- Best Value maths sits deliberately outside the toggle: it keeps using measured
road routes and its own confidence marking, so money figures never move with
the switch.
- Fills run only while the toggle is on and the app is frontmost; capacity raised
to 600 stations per pass; completeness tolerates pins Apple Maps has no route
for, which otherwise left an area permanently incomplete and the whole list
stuck on estimates.
Performance (the reported slowdown switching to Closest / launching with it)
- FuelStore.accurateDistancesEnabled was a UserDefaults(suiteName:) read per
call: a synchronous cfprefsd round-trip measured at ~1.9 us, ~200k calls per
Closest sort. Memoised, with the setter keeping it in step.
- Both keyed sorts decorate their keys — one distance per station, carried as an
index instead of copying whole stations into the decorated array — and the
comparison baseline plus per-station journeys now come from ONE pass instead of
two full scans per tab. The Stations tab also reuses its single sorted list for
the count and the TOP badge instead of sorting the country three times.
- Measured on iPhone SE (7,914-station Closest pool): sort 36.6 ms -> 17.1 ms per
list, Cheapest 6 ms, Best Value 11 ms.
- DEBUG probes: FB_PERF list timing, FB_PERF_BENCH toggle-read benchmark, and
FB_DIST_FOCUS now reports the served value, marker and mode (and re-prints when
a fill lands). FB_ACCURATE_DISTANCES / FB_SORT_MODE env forms for devices, where
devicectl eats a leading-dash argument.
Tests: 198, 0 failures. Device and simulator Debug builds green.
Following the sort-segment rename, the rest of the user-facing "Worth the Drive"
copy moves to "Best Value".
- Settings: the toggle is now just "Best Value" (was "Enable Worth the Drive"),
and the narrative footer opens "Best Value estimates fuel cost only, …".
- More info sheet: the section header is "Best Value" (was "Worth the drive?"),
and the section itself is now conditional. `fuelSavings` is nil whenever the
feature is off — `savingsLookup` returns nil when it is not configured — so
the heading is never left dangling over an empty section while the feature is
disabled.
- The unavailable text reads "Best Value unavailable: …".
- Comments and doc comments that named the sort were updated so they match the
UI instead of contradicting it.
Deliberately unchanged: the enum's raw value stays `worthTheDrive`, so stored
sort preferences and widget configs keep decoding, and FuelSavingsStatus keeps
its verdict wording ("Worth the drive" / "Not worth the drive") — that describes
a station's verdict rather than the feature, and is not shown in the UI.
Verified on the simulator: with the feature OFF the more info sheet shows
Address / Distance / Directions and no heading at all; with it ON the sheet
shows the "Best Value" section; Settings reads "Fuel Savings" / "Best Value"
with no "Enable" anywhere. 172 tests, 0 failures.
The two Fuel Savings figures and the in-list fill-up control were text
fields. A typed figure could sit outside the slider's own bounds, so the
control and the number it claimed to show could disagree, and the decimal
pad needed a Done button to escape.
- Settings: "Average fuel economy" and "Typical fill-up" are now sliders
with a read-out ("45 MPG", "£40" / "40 L") in place of the field. The
warning copy reads "Set a realistic..." rather than "Enter...".
- FuelSavingsAdjustmentView (shared by the Stations Worth-the-Drive header
and the Favourites tab) drops its text field and gains the same read-out;
the typed-value machinery and the -focusFillAmount QA hook go with it.
- Slider bounds live in FuelSavingsCalculator (fillAmountSliderRange/Step,
mpgSliderRange/Step) so the Settings control and the in-list control can
never offer different ranges, and the fill-up slider range stays inside
the calculator's validity ceiling (asserted by test).
- Two tests pin those invariants: every slider position is a valid amount,
and both MPG bounds are valid MPG values. 155 tests, 0 failures.
- Comments that described the removed fields were updated; the keyboard
Done-bar plumbing is kept (no numeric field remains in the app, so it can
no longer fire) rather than deleted, so any field added later still has an
escape route.
Verified on the simulator: Settings shows "Average fuel economy / 45 MPG"
with no field, and the Worth-the-Drive fill-up control shows the unit picker
with a "£40" read-out and a slider. The Settings "Typical fill-up" row sits
below the fold on every simulator available here (and synthetic input cannot
scroll it), so those pixels are unverified.
Calculation audit (brief config: 30 MPG imperial, £60 fill-up, baseline
Rontec Shelf 171.9p at 0.4 mi):
- One mile<->kilometre constant pair (kilometresPerMile 1.609344,
metresPerMile 1609.344) replaces the mixed 1609.34 / 0.621371 / 1.60934
used in the savings path. Effect ~2 ppm (invisible), but the conversions
are now auditable in one place.
- New FuelSavingsCalculationAuditTests (20 deterministic tests, no live
MKDirections) pins the brief's three stations - Tesco 170.9p/2.0 mi,
MFG Hare & Hounds 172.9p/2.8 mi, PGG Napoleon 171.9p/2.8 mi - plus
imperial-vs-US gallon, MPG and budget scaling, the break-even tolerance
boundary, the nearer-candidate clamp, route-unavailable, mixed-basis
estimates and display-rounding boundaries.
- Formula unchanged, and verified correct: fixed quantity (budget / baseline
price), pump saving, round-trip extra distance clamped at zero, travel fuel
priced at the candidate station, +/-5p break even, baseline labelled
"Closest station", sorting on the unrounded net saving. The brief's "£0.18"
for Tesco is the rounded 1 dp extra-distance caption (2.02-2.05 mi reads as
"2.0 mi"), not a rounding bug in the money.
UI (uncommitted since d7a0ecb):
- Done bar drawn in the bottom safe area from keyboard notifications:
.toolbar(placement: .keyboard) is device-dependent (present on the 15 Pro,
absent on the SE on the same iOS build).
- Favourite star in the More-info heading, wired to the same fuel-scoped
toggle as the listing rows at all three call sites.
- CHEAPEST/TOP badge moved above the price so it reads as part of it.
- Listing rows carry the real session fill-up amount instead of a hard zero
(the compact banner does not print it today; a future row layout would).
153 tests, 0 failures. Simulator and device builds succeed.
Optional Fuel Savings feature (off by default): vehicle MPG in UK imperial gallons, fill amount in pounds or litres, persisted through the existing keychain/app-group store. Ranks the WHOLE station pool by estimated net saving (fuel-price saving at each pump minus the extra return-trip driving cost) using MapKit road distances with a straight-line fallback marked (est.).
The closest station with a valid price for the selected fuel is the comparison baseline and is labelled "Closest station"; other rows read "Save £X.XX after travel" / "£X.XX worse off after travel" / "Break even". Labels live in the shared model so they are unit-tested. The TOP badge still marks the cheapest pump price and reads "CHEAPEST" when the list is ranked by net saving.
Road routing now prioritises the Worth-the-Drive candidates plus the baseline and merges cache entries instead of replacing them, so far-out stations get real routes rather than permanent straight-line estimates. Numeric fields gain a Done button above the keypad (decimalPad has no Return key); the fill-up control is hidden unless the feature is configured; Favourites shares one session fill amount with the station list. 131 tests.
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