fix: onboarding UX

- add option to enable locale based homeservers

Signed-off-by: TheOneWithTheBraid <the-one@with-the-braid.cf>

config.sample.json

@@ -6,5 +6,6 @@
   "privacy_url": "https://fluffychat.im/en/privacy.html",
   "render_html": false,
   "hide_redacted_events": false,
-  "hide_unknown_events": false
+  "hide_unknown_events": false,
+  "use_location_based_homeserver": true
 }

lib/config/app_config.dart

@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ abstract class AppConfig {
       'https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-emoji/';
   static const double borderRadius = 16.0;
   static const double columnWidth = 360.0;
+  static bool useLocaleBasedHomeserver = true;
 
   static void loadFromJson(Map<String, dynamic> json) {
     if (json['chat_color'] != null) {
@@ -95,5 +96,8 @@ abstract class AppConfig {
     if (json['hide_unknown_events'] is bool) {
       hideUnknownEvents = json['hide_unknown_events'];
     }
+    if (json['use_location_based_homeserver'] is bool) {
+      useLocaleBasedHomeserver = json['use_location_based_homeserver'];
+    }
   }
 }

lib/pages/homeserver_picker/homeserver_picker.dart

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import 'dart:async';
+import 'dart:ui';
 
 import 'package:flutter/foundation.dart';
 import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
@@ -90,7 +91,8 @@ class HomeserverPickerController extends State<HomeserverPicker> {
 
   void _loadHomeserverList() async {
     try {
-      final homeserverList = await JoinmatrixOrgParser().fetchHomeservers();
+      final homeserverList =
+          await const JoinmatrixOrgParser().fetchHomeservers();
       final benchmark = await HomeserverListProvider.benchmarkHomeserver(
         homeserverList,
         timeout: const Duration(seconds: 10),
@@ -159,6 +161,14 @@ class HomeserverPickerController extends State<HomeserverPicker> {
     }
   }
 
+  void _defaultHomeserverByLocale() {
+    final servers =
+        LocalHomeserverParser(window.locale.countryCode).fetchHomeservers();
+    if (servers.isNotEmpty) {
+      setState(() => homeserverController.text = servers.first.baseUrl.host);
+    }
+  }
+
   @override
   void dispose() {
     homeserverFocusNode.removeListener(_updateFocus);
@@ -169,6 +179,10 @@ class HomeserverPickerController extends State<HomeserverPicker> {
   void initState() {
     homeserverFocusNode.addListener(_updateFocus);
     _checkTorBrowser();
+    if (AppConfig.useLocaleBasedHomeserver) {
+      WidgetsBinding.instance
+          .addPostFrameCallback((timeStamp) => _defaultHomeserverByLocale());
+    }
     super.initState();
   }
 

pubspec.lock

@@ -1047,7 +1047,7 @@ packages:
       name: matrix_homeserver_recommendations
       url: "https://pub.dartlang.org"
     source: hosted
-    version: "0.2.1"
+    version: "0.3.0"
   matrix_link_text:
     dependency: "direct main"
     description:

pubspec.yaml

@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ dependencies:
   localstorage: ^4.0.0+1
   lottie: ^1.2.2
   matrix: ^0.10.3
-  matrix_homeserver_recommendations: ^0.2.1
+  matrix_homeserver_recommendations: ^0.3.0
   matrix_link_text: ^1.0.2
   native_imaging:
     git: https://gitlab.com/famedly/company/frontend/libraries/native_imaging.git