fix(llc,ui): stop re-emitting participant state for events that change nothing by renefloor · Pull Request #1354 · GetStream/stream-video-flutter

renefloor · 2026-09-16T13:53:18Z

🎯 Goal

Livestreams with many joining participants produce a high rate of SFU events (ParticipantJoined, AudioLevelChanged, ConnectionQualityChanged, ParticipantUpdated). The Flutter SDK had no throttling or batching anywhere in that path, and every handler rebuilt the whole participant list and pushed a new CallState, so listeners woke on every audio level tick whether or not anything they render had changed.

stream-video-swift and stream-video-android both solve this the same way — adaptive, count-based throttling of participant updates — and neither does anything special on the WebRTC side. This ports that approach.

Closes FLU-793.

🛠 Implementation details

Change guards in the SFU state handlers (state_sfu_mixin.dart)

sfuUpdateAudioLevelChanged, sfuConnectionQualityChanged, sfuDominantSpeakerChanged, sfuInboundStateNotification and sfuParticipantUpdated now keep the existing CallParticipantState instances and skip the state write entirely when the event leaves everything unchanged. The audio level rule is Swift's: a silent participant who was already silent is skipped.

The skip is not a flag each handler carries. They hand a mapping function to _updateParticipants, which returns the participant untouched to mean "nothing to do" and decides from identity — the same thing the sorting mixin and partialState already read to detect a change, so there is nothing to keep in sync and nothing to forget to set. It also builds no list when nothing changed, where each handler previously allocated one per event and discarded it; that path is every audio level tick.

Matching goes through a map built once per event, replacing a firstWhereOrNull over the event payload per participant (sfuUpdateAudioLevelChanged was O(n·m)).

Preserving instance identity is what makes the rest of the PR work — downstream distinct and the widget-level checks can then use identity rather than deep equality over 22 Equatable props per participant.

Call.participantsStream (new)

A participant list stream whose emission interval grows with the participant count, with the tiers taken from Swift's CollectionDelayedUpdateObserver:

participants	interval
< 16	16 ms
< 50	250 ms
< 100	500 ms
>= 100	1 s

Trailing only: each window emits the most recent list to arrive during it, so a change is never dropped, only collapsed with the ones around it.

The window is a hand-written StreamTransformer rather than rxdart's throttle, after three separate problems with that operator on this path:

Leading emissions doubled the rate. eventAfterLastWindow closes a window before the next value reopens it, so a continuous source gets the trailing value and the next value as the new window's leading one. Measured at 9 emissions per 500 ms against a 100 ms window, which made every tier mean half what it says.
It never completed when the source closed with no window running — the normal case, since a stable participant list means an idle throttle. Any consumer using await for, .last or .drain() would hang with no error.
It dropped a lone held value on close, gated on queue.length > 1. The disconnect that clears callParticipants could land inside a window and never reach a listener.

The last two came out of review and are covered by tests now. Combine's throttle(latest:) emits once per interval, and this matches.

The interval is evaluated once per window, when it opens; a value arriving mid-window does not re-measure it, so a change in participant count takes effect on the next window. Same as Swift, which recomputes its interval after each emission rather than mid-flight.

Where this lives matters, and both natives agree: Swift wires CollectionDelayedUpdateObserver up in CallController and Android keeps TaskSchedulerWithDebounce in core CallState — neither UI module throttles anything. So the policy sits on Call, StreamCallParticipants and the Android PiP overlay just subscribe, and throttleByCollectionSize is an unexported implementation detail, matching CollectionDelayedUpdateObserver not being public in Swift.

One window is shared by every listener, behind a BehaviorSubject held as a late final field. Sharing is the point: Swift feeds one CollectionDelayedUpdateObserver into Call.state.participantsMap and Android has one StateFlow, so every consumer sees the same list in the same frame. A per-listener variant was tried and reverted — it let two widgets rendering one call drift apart, and re-ran the upstream map and ListEquality distinct once per listener instead of once. The subject is not handed to listeners directly. It carries the list the last window closed on, which is older than the state a listener is starting from, so subscribing to it raw walked the list backwards for up to an interval — a just-joined participant appeared for one frame and then dropped off screen. participantsStream is a late final broadcast stream instead: every listener is given the live CallState.callParticipants first, the subject's replay is dropped, and the shared window drives everything after that. Being a field rather than a fresh stream per access is what keeps StreamBuilder from resubscribing on every rebuild.

CallState.callParticipants stays immediate, and deliberately so. Five call sites read it synchronously — _getTrackForParticipant starts a track straight off a TrackPublished event, the ringing flow checks who is left, and dynascale, the rtc manager and the participant mapper all do lookups. Throttling it would make a just-joined participant's track fail to start. Swift has the same split: WebRTCStateAdapter.participants is immediate and only its projection into Call.state.participantsMap is throttled.

CallPreferences.participantsThrottleIntervalResolver (new)

Takes the participant count and returns a duration, which is the shape the default tiers already had — so an integrator can shift the thresholds rather than being forced to a single constant. defaultParticipantsThrottleInterval is public and is the literal default, so it can be wrapped ((n) => defaultParticipantsThrottleInterval(n) * 2). Pass null to emit every change. Neither native SDK exposes this.

It is named for what it is — a function, like the existing encryptionKeyResolver — rather than for the Duration the other *Interval preferences hold. Adding it to the CallPreferences interface is source-breaking for an app with its own implementation, so it is under ⚠️ Breaking in the changelog.

DefaultCallPreferences(
  participantsThrottleIntervalResolver: (_) => const Duration(milliseconds: 100),
)

The preference is read once, the first time participantsStream is accessed — the same way callStatsReportingInterval is read at session start. A later updateCallPreferences does not change it for that call. A resolver that throws surfaces as an error on the stream rather than leaving it stalled with no window armed, and a negative duration is treated as zero.

Participant sorting (call_participants_sorting_mixin.dart)

_sortedParticipantKeys.indexOf(...) was called inside the sort comparator, allocating a '$userId-$sessionId' string per call, on top of an O(n²) indexOf loop — O(n² log n) overall. Now a precomputed order map, so O(n log n). setState is skipped when the resulting list is unchanged, mirroring Android's SortedParticipantsState.resort().

The livestream widgets (livestream_content.dart, livestream_backstage_content.dart)

Both selected a whole participant list inside a record. Dart compares a record's List field by identity, so neither hit the ListEquality path in partialCallStateStream's distinct — they rebuilt on every participant update. The two need opposite fixes, which is worth spelling out because it's the general rule:

LivestreamContent renders per-participant widgets, so it genuinely needs the list. Split: status still comes off the raw state, so a disconnect is acted on at once, and the participants come through Call.participantsStream via a new CallParticipantsBuilder. Only the reindent moved; no logic changed.
LivestreamBackstageContent renders participants.length and nothing else, so it now selects the count. An int in a record compares by value, which makes the distinct work and keeps the number prompt. Throttling it would have been worse — a delayed count for no benefit.

CallParticipantsBuilder seeds initialData from the current call state, so a consumer doesn't wait out the first throttle window — at the 1 s tier that would leave a livestream blank. Its doc points people at PartialCallStateBuilder when they only need a derived value, which is the mistake backstage made.

The other three partialState consumers were checked and left alone: call_content.dart:160 and stream_picture_in_picture_android_view.dart:85 select only scalars, so their records compare by value; call_content.dart:281 selects state.localParticipant, a single participant compared via Equatable — and a local mute needs to be prompt, not throttled.

Bugs found along the way (call_participant_state.dart, state_sfu_mixin.dart)

copyWithUpdatedAudioLevels did final levels = audioLevels; levels.add(...) — mutating the list in place, so the "previous" immutable snapshot's history changed underneath it. Now copies, and audioLevels is copied into an unmodifiable list so neither the next writer nor a caller still holding the list it passed in can write through it. Instance identity is what every guard in this PR rests on.
sfuPinsUpdated re-pinned every already-pinned participant with a fresh DateTime.now(). pinnedAt is what orders pinned participants in the pinned comparator, so a pins event reshuffled them. Now it keeps the existing server pin.
sfuDominantSpeakerChanged's first guard used firstWhereOrNull, which assumes one flagged participant — nothing enforces that, and sfuJoinResponse and sfuParticipantUpdated both take the flag off the wire. With two flagged and the event matching the first, a stale flag survived. It now compares each participant's desired flag against the one they carry, which handles several flagged participants without treating that as a case of its own.
CallParticipantsBuilder read participantsStream in build while it was briefly a getter, so StreamBuilder resubscribed on every rebuild and restarted the throttle window. An ancestor rebuilding faster than the interval starved the list. It holds its stream in state now.

Public behaviour change: a silent participant's audioLevel and audioLevels now hold at the reading that took them below the speaking threshold, instead of tracking every quiet sample after it. That is what makes the audio-level guard worth having, and it is what Swift does. It is in the changelog.

From review (call.dart, call_participant_state.dart, adaptive_throttle.dart, partial_call_state_builder.dart, call_participants.dart, state_sfu_mixin.dart, android_pip_overlay.dart)

The stale-replay bug above, which every consumer of participantsStream hit.
_sealLevels wrapped the caller's list in an UnmodifiableListView rather than copying it. A view writes through, so CallParticipantState(audioLevels: myList) left the caller able to mutate the "sealed" field with identity unchanged — exactly what the seal exists to prevent.
The interval resolver was called inside the source's onData, so a throw went to the zone rather than the stream: no window armed, no value and no error downstream, and the participant list stopped updating for the rest of the call with a clean log.
PartialCallStateBuilder cast snapshot.data as T on an error snapshot, turning a real stream error into a TypeError naming a cast. It now falls back to the current state and logs. CallParticipantsBuilder already fell back but discarded snapshot.error; it logs it now.
StreamCallParticipants.didUpdateWidget cancelled its subscription when a controlled participants list was supplied and never re-took it when the widget went back to the call's own list, freezing the list silently. Pre-existing; fixed here because the same branch moved.
Three .listen sites — both in StreamCallParticipants and the one in AndroidPipOverlay — passed no onError, so the error adaptive_throttle deliberately raises for a throwing resolver went back to the zone uncaught, once per event, on the one path the PR added error plumbing for. They log it now and keep the last known list.
StreamCallParticipants.didUpdateWidget never re-ran the sort when sort or filter changed, only when participants or call did. That was survivable while audio level events wrote state every ~100 ms; this PR stops those writes, so in a quiet call a swapped comparator would have waited for the next join or speaker. Applied on both branches — the controlled-participants branch had the same gap behind its ListEquality check. A sort closure built in build() re-sorts on each rebuild, which the identity guard absorbs into no setState.
_sealLevels copied the history on every copyWith, including pins, reactions, viewport visibility and connection quality, which never touch audio. The list is now marked with a private _SealedLevels type and shared when it is already one of ours; private is what makes the check safe, since a public marker would let a caller pass a view over a list they still hold. copyWithUpdatedAudioLevels drops from the front while building instead of a removeRange afterwards and seals by adoption, so the audio path allocates two lists where it used to allocate four.
sfuParticipantUpdated applied neither the hold-while-silent rule nor the no-op guard: it called copyWithUpdatedAudioLevels unconditionally, so a silent participant's levels advanced there while sfuUpdateAudioLevelChanged held them, and it always allocated and always wrote state. It goes through _updateParticipants now, with the same audio guard, so the two paths that write audio levels agree.
Docs corrected where they described something other than the code: the preference's "read each time", the audio-level comment naming the wrong reading, the audioLevel/audioLevels field docs (neither "latest" nor plainly "the last 10" any more, and now unmodifiable), the // ignore: close_sinks justification, and the sorting mixin's identity claim.

🎨 UI Changes

No intended visual change. Participant list updates land up to one interval later in large calls, by design.

🧪 Testing

melos run analyze is clean on both packages. stream_video: 612 tests pass, including 55 new ones:

test/src/call/state/state_sfu_mixin_test.dart — each guarded handler emits on a real change and keeps the list identical on a no-op; untouched participants keep their instance; the audio level history is not shared with the previous snapshot and cannot be mutated; sfuInboundStateNotification multi-track grouping and the pause→unpause round trip; pin stability; and the two-flagged-dominant-speaker case. Plus the cases a guard could be "simplified" into: a speaker falling silent is still written through, a local pin survives a server pins event, an unspecified quality does not downgrade a known one, and a no-op event pushes no new CallState — that last one asserted on the state stream, since the setter writes unconditionally and an identical list does not prove nothing was re-emitted. From review: sfuParticipantUpdated holding a silent participant's level, advancing it once they speak, still writing a changed field through, and leaving the other participants on their instances; plus the level list being shared across a copyWith that leaves audio alone, not shared across one that does not, and unmodifiable either way.
test/src/utils/adaptive_throttle_test.dart — rebuilt on fakeAsync, so the timing assertions are exact rather than wall-clock. Covers the tier boundaries (15/16, 49/50, 99/100), once-per-window under a continuous source, window measurement from the opening list, error forwarding, cancel teardown, the three completion cases, and an interval callback that throws or returns a negative duration. Completion runs on the real event loop, since it is about ordering rather than timing.
test/src/call/call_participants_stream_test.dart — stream identity across accesses, replay to a late listener, and two listeners receiving identical values. Now driven by real state changes rather than an empty call, so it covers the window collapsing several updates into one, null bypassing the throttle, and a listener subscribing mid-window starting from the live list. That last one fails on the pre-fix stream with [0] against two live participants.

stream_video_flutter had no participant tests before this PR. It now has the sorting mixin (append-on-join, order preserved on leave, sort stability, comparator precedence, filtering, skip-setState) and CallParticipantsBuilder (one stream across rebuilds — which fails on the pre-fix widget with 6 accesses instead of 1 — delivery while an ancestor rebuilds, re-taking the stream when the call changes, and falling back to the current state when the stream errors). From review: the list surviving a participantsStream error and still taking later updates, and a changed sort or filter being applied with no participant update to ride on. 17 tests pass.

The update_goldens workflow was run on 8bd7dc8b (run 35114738369) and regenerated every CI golden byte-identically — "Working tree clean. Nothing to commit." The commits since then are state, docs and tests only, and a local --update-goldens on the current head leaves every committed PNG unchanged, so nothing in this PR changes what gets rendered.

goldens/macos is gitignored — only goldens/ci is committed — so the macOS variants of call_content_test.dart fail on a fresh checkout, and on a stale local copy generated on a different display, until flutter test --tags golden --update-goldens has run again locally. The CI variants pass either way.

No benchmark was run, so this PR claims no measured improvement over main. The changes are structural; someone should measure a real livestream before we describe this as a speedup anywhere user-facing.

📋 Deliberately out of scope

Two items from the FLU-793 analysis are not here, both because they want the Map<String, CallParticipantState> rework planned for v2 first:

Android-style batching of ParticipantJoined at ingestion. call_session.dart:770 runs stateManager.sfuParticipantJoined(event) and then await rtcManager?.flushPendingDecryptors() under the same lock. Delaying ingestion would leave a join's decryptor flush with no participant to attach to — harmless with E2EE off, where it early-returns, but not with it on. Doing it properly means moving the flush onto a "batch applied" signal. A join storm therefore stays O(n²) in the state layer.
Unwinding _sfuEventsLock. It also guards peer-connection ordering; low payoff for the risk in this PR.
PartialCallStateBuilder resubscribing on every rebuild. partialState builds a fresh chain per call and it is read in build. Holding it in State was tried and reverted: Dart does not canonicalise the inline closures every call site passes as selector, so the widget re-takes the stream on each rebuild regardless, and keying off the selector only adds a way to ignore one that genuinely changed. Fixing it properly means the call sites hoisting their selectors.

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New Features
- Added Call.participantsStream with configurable participant-count-based throttling or immediate updates.
- Added Flutter support for rendering participants from the throttled stream while preserving current-state responsiveness.
Bug Fixes
- Made audio history read-only and preserved the last audio level while participants are silent.
- Prevented redundant state updates and corrected server-pinned participant ordering.
- Improved participant ordering, widget error handling, and rendering stability.
Breaking Changes
- Custom CallPreferences implementations must provide the participant throttling resolver.

…e nothing Livestreams with many joining participants produce a high rate of SFU events. Every handler rebuilt the whole participant list and pushed a new CallState, so listeners woke on every audio level tick whether or not anything they render had changed. - Guard the SFU participant handlers: audio level, connection quality, dominant speaker, inbound video state and participant updated now keep the existing participant instances and skip the state write when the event leaves everything unchanged. Matching is done through a map built once per event instead of a scan per participant. - Add `throttleByCollectionSize`, a list-stream throttle whose interval grows with the list size, and apply it to the participant subscriptions in `StreamCallParticipants` and the Android PiP overlay. The tiers mirror stream-video-swift's `CollectionDelayedUpdateObserver` and stream-video-android's `participantsUpdateConfig`. - Sort participants through a precomputed order map rather than an `indexOf` inside the comparator, and skip `setState` when the resulting list is unchanged. - Stop `copyWithUpdatedAudioLevels` mutating the audio level history it shares with the previous snapshot. No benchmark was run, so this carries no measured improvement over main. FLU-793 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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The PR adds Call.participantsStream, adaptive participant throttling, immutable audio-level history, SFU update deduplication, and Flutter consumers that use throttled participant lists.

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Participant update pipeline

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Participant state preservation `packages/stream_video/lib/src/call/state/...`, `packages/stream_video/lib/src/models/call_participant_state.dart`, `packages/stream_video/test/src/call/state/...`	SFU handlers skip unchanged updates. Pin timestamps remain stable. `audioLevels` is unmodifiable, and audio history updates use a new list.
Adaptive participant stream `packages/stream_video/lib/src/call/call.dart`, `packages/stream_video/lib/src/models/...`, `packages/stream_video/lib/src/utils/adaptive_throttle.dart`, `packages/stream_video/test/src/...`	`Call.participantsStream` uses a shared subject. Collection-size throttling uses configurable intervals and emits the latest held list when a window closes.
Flutter participant consumers `packages/stream_video_flutter/lib/src/call_participants/...`, `packages/stream_video_flutter/lib/src/widgets/...`, `packages/stream_video_flutter/lib/src/livestream/...`, `packages/stream_video_flutter/test/src/...`	Participant widgets and livestream content use `participantsStream`. Builders handle stream errors, preserve participant ordering, and skip unchanged rendered state.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~30 minutes

Change: Bug fix

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Call
  participant AdaptiveThrottle
  participant CallParticipantsBuilder
  participant FlutterWidgets
  Call->>AdaptiveThrottle: receive participant list
  AdaptiveThrottle->>CallParticipantsBuilder: emit latest list after interval
  CallParticipantsBuilder->>FlutterWidgets: provide participant list
  FlutterWidgets->>FlutterWidgets: skip unchanged rendered state

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Participant updates may be delivered after the configured throttling interval while synchronous call state remains immediate. No material correctness, data-integrity, or availability risk remains identified, so this change is mergeable.

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…nfigurable Both native SDKs keep this policy below the public participant list: Swift's CollectionDelayedUpdateObserver is wired up in CallController and Android's TaskSchedulerWithDebounce lives in core CallState. Neither UI module throttles anything. Add `Call.participantsStream` and subscribe the participant widgets to it, so the UI layer carries no rate-limiting of its own and every listener shares one throttle. `throttleByCollectionSize` is no longer exported; it is an implementation detail of that stream, matching CollectionDelayedUpdateObserver not being public in Swift. Add `CallPreferences.participantsThrottleInterval` so an integrator can pick their own interval, or pass null to emit every update. It takes the participant count and returns a duration, which is the shape the default tiers already had. Neither native SDK exposes this. The throttle is trailing-only. rxdart's `eventAfterLastWindow` closes a window before the next value reopens it, so with a leading emission a continuous source gets two values per window — the trailing one, then the next value as the new window's leading one — and the tiers would mean half what they say. Measured at 9 emissions per 500ms against a 100ms window. Combine's throttle(latest:) emits once per interval, and this now matches. The cost is that the first emission to a listener waits one window, which is why both widgets seed from `CallState.callParticipants` first. `CallState.callParticipants` stays immediate. Five call sites read it synchronously — `_getTrackForParticipant` starts a track straight off a TrackPublished event, the ringing flow checks who is left, and dynascale, the rtc manager and the participant mapper all do lookups. Swift has the same split: `WebRTCStateAdapter.participants` is immediate and only the projection into `Call.state.participantsMap` is throttled. Also simplify the audio level change guard, where the `==` against `levelInfo.isSpeaking` only ever compared against false. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

`LivestreamContent` selected `(callParticipants, status)` as a record. Dart compares a record's `List` field by identity, so it missed the `ListEquality` path in `partialCallStateStream`'s distinct and rebuilt on every participant update, re-running the host filter over the full list. Split it: status still comes off the raw state, so a disconnect is acted on at once, and the participants come through `Call.participantsStream`. `LivestreamBackstageContent` renders `participants.length` and nothing else, so it selects the count instead. An int in a record compares by value, which makes the distinct work and keeps the number prompt — throttling it would have delayed a count for no benefit. Add `CallParticipantsBuilder` for the first case. It seeds `initialData` from the current call state, so a consumer does not wait out the first throttle window, which at the 1s tier would leave a livestream blank. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Replace rxdart's `throttle` with a hand-rolled transformer. Its `eventAfterLastWindow` strategy left the sink open when the source closed with no window running, so `participantsStream` never completed — the normal case, since a stable participant list means an idle throttle. It also gated its close-time flush on `queue.length > 1`, silently dropping a lone held value; the disconnect that sets `callParticipants` to empty could land inside a window and never reach a listener. Both reproduced, both now covered by tests. This is the third quirk of that operator on this path after the leading-emission doubling, hence writing it out. `participantsStream` is a getter again rather than a `late final` over `asBroadcastStream()`. The broadcast never tore down — it kept consuming the source with zero listeners for the life of the Call — and gave late listeners no current value. A fresh chain per listener replays from the upstream BehaviorSubject, and dies with its subscription. `sfuDominantSpeakerChanged` guarded with `firstWhereOrNull`, which assumes one flagged participant. Nothing enforces that: `sfuJoinResponse` and `sfuParticipantUpdated` both take the flag off the wire. With two flagged and the event matching the first, the handler returned and the stale flag survived — the old unconditional pass cleared it. Now requires the flagged set to be exactly the event's participant. `CallParticipantsBuilder` used `snapshot.data!`. `StreamBuilder` discards data on an error snapshot, so that threw a null check over the real error. Falls back to the current call state. Also: document that audio levels hold while a participant is silent, which is a public behaviour change; anchor the tier provenance to a Swift version and date rather than an unverifiable claim; correct the preference-read timing docs. Tests: throttle suite rewritten on `fakeAsync` with the tier boundaries and completion cases covered, plus first coverage for `sfuInboundStateNotification` and the sorting mixin. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

`sfuPinsUpdated` re-pinned every already-pinned participant with a fresh `DateTime.now()`. `pinnedAt` is what orders pinned participants in the `pinned` comparator, so a pins event reshuffled them; it also broke instance identity for all of them on every event. Keep the existing server pin and skip the write when nothing moved. `audioLevels` is handed out as an unmodifiable view. Identity is what the change guards rely on to tell whether a participant moved, and that only holds while nothing mutates a collection in place — the bug this branch already fixed once in `copyWithUpdatedAudioLevels`. The next one now throws instead of quietly freezing the UI. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

`CallParticipantsBuilder` was a `StatelessWidget` reading `call.participantsStream` in `build`. That getter hands out a fresh chain per access, each with its own throttle window, so `StreamBuilder` saw a new stream object on every rebuild and resubscribed — restarting the window each time. An ancestor rebuilding faster than the interval starved the list indefinitely: no blank frame, since the last snapshot is retained, it just stopped updating. At the >=100 tier the window is a second, so an animation or a rotation was enough, in exactly the large-livestream case this branch targets. Capture the stream in state instead, re-taking it only when the call changes. Regression introduced when `participantsStream` went from a `late final` to a getter; `StreamCallParticipants` and the Android PiP overlay already held their subscriptions and were unaffected. The new test fails on the old widget with 6 stream accesses across 5 rebuilds instead of 1. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

`participantsStream` was a getter building a fresh chain per listener. That was my own substitution for the review's suggestion, not the review's, and it traded away a property neither native SDK gives up: Swift has one `CollectionDelayedUpdateObserver` feeding `Call.state.participantsMap` and Android one `StateFlow`, so every consumer sees the same list in the same frame. Per-listener windows open at different moments, so two widgets rendering one call could show different lists. It was also more work, not less: the upstream `partialState` map and `ListEquality` distinct ran once per listener per state emission instead of once. And a getter cannot have stable identity, which is what let `CallParticipantsBuilder` resubscribe on every rebuild. Back to one shared window, behind a `BehaviorSubject` rather than `asBroadcastStream()`. That covers what the review actually objected to: the subject carries the latest value, so a late listener does not wait for the list to change. `shareValue()` was the review's suggestion and is still not usable here — it is refcounted, so it would resubscribe to the transformer's single-subscription controller after the last listener left. The subject is exposed through a `late final` field, not `subject.stream`, which builds a new `_SubjectStream` on every access and would reintroduce the resubscribe bug. It lives as long as the state it reads from; `_stateManager.dispose()` is never called anywhere in `lib/src`. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

It described `Call.participantsStream` as handing out a new stream per access with a window each. Both stopped being true when the stream became one shared subject behind a `late final` field. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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A listener subscribing mid-window was handed the list the last window closed on, which is older than the state it seeded from — a just-joined participant dropped off screen for up to an interval. Each listener now starts from the live participant list and the stale replay is dropped. - `_sealLevels` copies instead of wrapping, so a caller keeping the list it passed in cannot write through it. - A `participantsThrottleIntervalResolver` that throws surfaces as a stream error instead of stalling the stream with no window armed; a negative interval is treated as zero. - `CallPreferences.participantsThrottleInterval` is renamed to `participantsThrottleIntervalResolver`, matching `encryptionKeyResolver`. - `PartialCallStateBuilder` falls back to the current state on an error snapshot rather than failing a cast over the real error. - Breaking changes moved under their own changelog heading, and the docs on the preference, the audio level fields and the throttle corrected. Adds the missing guard tests: a speaker falling silent, a local pin surviving a server pins event, an unspecified quality not downgrading a known one, a no-op event pushing no call state, and the throttle collapsing and bypass paths. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

The five guarded SFU handlers each carried a `changed` flag next to a `map` that returns the participant untouched when there is nothing to do. The flag says a second time what the returned instance already says, and a handler that forgets to set it drops the update silently. `_updateParticipants` takes the mapping function and decides from identity, so there is no flag to forget. It also builds no list at all when nothing changed, where each handler previously allocated one per event and threw it away — that path is every audio level tick. `sfuDominantSpeakerChanged` loses its flagged-set pre-check with it: comparing each participant's desired flag against the one they carry handles several flagged participants without reasoning about the case separately. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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🟡 Minor · Handle participant-stream errors at both subscription sites. · call_participants.dart:130-132

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Handle participant-stream errors at both subscription sites.

When a reachable participantsThrottleIntervalResolver throws, Call.participantsStream forwards the error to its subscribers. The subscriptions in _StreamCallParticipantsState have no onError handler, so the error can reach Flutter’s uncaught asynchronous-error handling.

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In
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around lines 130 - 132, Add onError callbacks to both participantsStream.listen
subscriptions in _StreamCallParticipantsState, capturing and handling/reporting
the error together with its StackTrace at the subscription boundary while
preserving recalculateParticipants for normal events.

🟡 Minor · Handle errors in the Android PiP participant subscription. · android_pip_overlay.dart:58-60

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Handle errors in the Android PiP participant subscription.

If a custom participantsThrottleIntervalResolver throws, Call._buildParticipantsSubject propagates the error through Call.participantsStream. This subscription passes only recalculateParticipants to listen, so Dart sends the unhandled stream error to Flutter’s uncaught asynchronous-error handler.

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In
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around lines 58 - 60, Update the participantsStream subscription in the Android
PiP overlay to provide an onError callback alongside recalculateParticipants.
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In `@packages/stream_video/lib/src/call/call.dart`:
- Around line 471-477: Update the _participantsSubject listener’s onError
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In `@packages/stream_video/lib/src/models/call_participant_state.dart`:
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- Around line 130-132: Add onError callbacks to both participantsStream.listen
subscriptions in _StreamCallParticipantsState, capturing and handling/reporting
the error together with its StackTrace at the subscription boundary while
preserving recalculateParticipants for normal events.

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`@packages/stream_video_flutter/lib/src/call_screen/call_content/picture_in_picture/android_pip_overlay.dart`:
- Around line 58-60: Update the participantsStream subscription in the Android
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- `BehaviorSubject` caches its latest error as well as its latest value, so a listener could open on an error rather than a value. The flag that drops the subject's replay was only set by the value path, which then ate the next real participant list. - `_sealLevels` trusted an `UnmodifiableListView` it was handed. A view writes through to the list it was built over, so a caller could keep mutating what it hid. It always copies now. - `StreamBuilder` carries its snapshot across a stream swap, so `CallParticipantsBuilder` rendered the previous call's participants on the frame the call changed. Keyed on the call. Also corrects the first line of the `audioLevel` doc, which described the retained reading as one taken while the participant was above the speaking threshold when it is the one that took them below it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

`StreamCallParticipants` cancels its subscription when a controlled `participants` list is supplied. Setting that list back to null left neither branch of `didUpdateWidget` running, so the widget kept rendering the controlled list and never took the subscription again. The fix was already in, without a test that fails without it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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🟡 Minor · Rebind the PiP participant subscription when call changes. · android_pip_overlay.dart:58-60

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Rebind the PiP participant subscription when call changes.

StreamPictureInPictureAndroidView can receive a new call, but its existing OverlayEntry remains visible. AndroidPipOverlay subscribes only in initState and cancels only in dispose. The overlay therefore remains subscribed to the old call. Old participant events can repaint the PiP view, while updates from the new call are ignored.

Rebuild the overlay when the parent call changes, and recreate the participant subscription in AndroidPipOverlay.didUpdateWidget:
+  `@override`
+  void didUpdateWidget(covariant AndroidPipOverlay oldWidget) {
+    super.didUpdateWidget(oldWidget);
+
+    if (widget.call != oldWidget.call) {
+      _participantsSubscription?.cancel();
+      _participantsSubscription = widget.call.participantsStream.listen(
+        recalculateParticipants,
+      );
+      recalculateParticipants(widget.call.state.value.callParticipants);
+    }
+  }
     if (widget.call != oldWidget.call) {
       _callStateSubscription?.cancel();
       _startListeningToCallState();
       _updatePictureInPictureAllowedState();
+      _overlayEntry?.markNeedsBuild();
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around lines 58 - 60, Update StreamPictureInPictureAndroidView to mark its
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Re: CodeRabbit's outside-diff finding, Rebind the PiP participant subscription when call changes (android_pip_overlay.dart:58-60).

The finding is accurate, and I'm skipping it here. Both halves check out against the current code:

_AndroidPipOverlayState is initState → dispose → build, with no didUpdateWidget, so a changed Call leaves _participantsSubscription on the old one while build reads widget.call for the tile.
_StreamPictureInPictureAndroidViewState.didUpdateWidget does handle widget.call != oldWidget.call for _callStateSubscription, but never marks _overlayEntry for rebuild. The entry passes call: call, a getter reading widget.call, so this isn't a captured stale reference — it's an entry that has no reason to re-run its builder. "Mark for rebuild" is the right description.

But it isn't this PR's. All this PR changes on those lines is the stream source inside the existing initState:

-    _participantsSubscription = widget.call
-        .partialState((state) => state.callParticipants)
-        .listen(recalculateParticipants);
+    _participantsSubscription = widget.call.participantsStream.listen(
+      recalculateParticipants,
+    );

The missing didUpdateWidget and the un-refreshed overlay entry are identical before and after — which is presumably why the bot itself filed this as outside the diff range. Reachability is also narrow: it needs the same element rebuilt with a different Call, which I don't think the SDK's own widgets do. The best argument for fixing it is the inconsistency — that didUpdateWidget already treats a changed call as real for one subscription and ignores it for the others.

Worth its own change rather than riding along on a throttling PR. (Correcting myself: I first said there was no fixture for it — there is, android_pip_overlay_test.dart.)

Both halves are now fixed in #1357, on v2.

The same gap existed in the iOS StreamPictureInPictureUiKitView, and feat(ui): make picture-in-picture a viewport #1357 was making it sharper — it binds a ViewportHandle to widget.call on first build, so a changed call would keep it reporting into a call it had left. Fixed in 8f0475a1.
The Android overlay and the markNeedsBuild() on the entry: db0415fe, with a test that swaps the call under the overlay and expects the participants to change with it.

It went to v2 rather than main because that is where the work is focused, and main is being kept to minimal changes. So nothing is needed here — this PR's diff on those lines stays as it is.

- Handle `participantsStream` errors in the three subscriptions that had no `onError`, where a throwing `participantsThrottleIntervalResolver` reached the zone uncaught once per event. - Re-run the sort in `StreamCallParticipants.didUpdateWidget` when `sort` or `filter` changes. The throttled stream is silent in a quiet call, so a new comparator would otherwise wait for the next join or speaker. - Skip re-copying `audioLevels` in `CallParticipantState` when the list is already sealed, which is every `copyWith` that leaves audio alone, and seal the audio update's own list by adoption instead of copying it twice. - Apply the hold-while-silent rule in `sfuParticipantUpdated` too, so both paths that write audio levels agree, and route it through `_updateParticipants` so an event that changes nothing writes no state. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

The merge carried code written against pre-v2 APIs. None of it analyzed or ran on v2. - `stream_core` now resolves from the same commit as `stream_core_flutter` rather than pub.dev. The published 0.5.0 predates `CurrentPlatform.debugCurrentPlatformOverride`, which the ringing tests need, and the two core packages coming from different builds was its own hazard. - `User`/`UserToken`: `UserToken.jwt` → `UserToken`, `User.regular` → `User`, and the flat `User` in the dogfooding token check. Its name comes off `originalName`, since `name` falls back to the id and would otherwise carry the old id over as the new user's name. - `Result.error` → `failureWithError`, `valueOrNull` → `value`, and `MutableSharedEmitterImpl` → `MutableSharedEmitter`. - `thenReturn` → `thenAnswer` wherever a mock hands back an emitter: emitters are `Stream`s on v2 and mocktail refuses to return one from `thenReturn`. The throw left the stub open, so every later `when` failed too, which is what most of the noise in these files was. - `StateEmitter` is a `Stream`, so `.valueStream.listen` is just `.listen`. - The `participantsStream` error test drives the error through a throwing `participantsThrottleIntervalResolver`, the seam an integrator actually reaches, since core's emitter exposes no sink. - `MockCall` defaults `participantsStream`, and `MockStateEmitter` is back in the shared mocks — v2's core migration dropped it. Two tests asserted opposite re-sort rules (#1332 on v2, #1354 on main). Identity comparison on `sort` wins: it is the only way a caller's new comparator is ever noticed, and it still re-sorts on a layout change, since `sort` defaults to a cached `layoutMode.sorting` preset. #1332's guard now pins the narrower invariant it was really after — a comparator that stays the same does not re-sort — and says to hoist one. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

…ange `didUpdateWidget` compared `sort` by identity to decide whether the list had to be ordered again. A comparator built inline is a new object on every build, so that re-sorted on every rebuild for anyone passing one that way. Compare `layoutMode.sorting` instead, alongside the filter. The presets are `static final`, so an unchanged layout compares equal and picking a different one does not — which is what #1332 was after, and what actually decides the order when no comparator is passed. What this gives up: replacing a caller's own comparator no longer reorders on the spot (#1354). `Call.participantsStream` is throttled and silent in a quiet call, so nothing else re-sorts until the next list arrives. That test goes with it; #1332's two come back. Why the re-sort is worth avoiding: `sortParticipants` is not idempotent when more participants are off screen than there are tiles to claim, and `recalculateParticipants` feeds it its own previous output. It reaches a fixed point after one further pass, reordering among the off-screen tail. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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feat(ui): give CallParticipantSort an identity #1364

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fix(llc,ui): stop re-emitting participant state for events that change nothing - #1354

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