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Recover the connection state when a peer connection stays NEW after a reconnect - #1802

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Goal

Fix AND-1481. After a network blip a call can stay on "Reconnecting.." forever even though everything recovered. Split out of #1788 on review request, since RtcSession serves every product surface and this change deserves an isolated review and revert unit.

Implementation

RealtimeConnection.Connected is only restored after a reconnect by the ICE health monitor in RtcSession, and its recovery required both peer connections to reach an established ICE state. A peer connection with nothing to negotiate stays NEW forever (for example the subscriber right after a reconnect when the remote side publishes nothing), so the recovery never fired.

The evidence is the logcat of run 33514246516 (API 34, testReconnectionDuringCallRecording, all 3 attempts): network restored at 13:46:52.3, SFU socket Connected at 13:46:53.2, the monitor correctly downgrades at 13:46:53.238 because the publisher ICE is still DISCONNECTED, the publisher ICE then recovers to CONNECTED at 13:46:53.5, but the subscriber stays NEW and the state stays Reconnecting until the test gives up 19 seconds later.

The change is limited to the monitor's state decision:

  • The decision is extracted into iceHealthTransition (a pure function): recover when the SFU socket is connected and no ICE side is bad (DISCONNECTED or FAILED), instead of requiring both sides to be established. A side that fails later still flips the state back through the existing degraded branch.
  • The monitor also re-evaluates on SFU socket state changes, so recovery does not depend on a later ICE edge.
  • evaluateIceHealth is an internal member so the wrapper is directly testable.

🎨 UI Changes

Not applicable. The fix removes a state where the "Reconnecting.." banner never disappeared.

Testing

  • Pure unit tests in RtcSessionTest2 pin the contract on both ICE sides, including the exact state combination from the CI logs (Reconnecting, socket connected, publisher CONNECTED, subscriber NEW). The recovery test fails against the old predicate (verified by temporarily restoring it).
  • testReconnectionDuringCallRecording is the E2E that fails without this patch, probabilistically: the same pre-fix code failed 3 of 3 attempts on run 33514246516 and passed the full nightly hours earlier (run 33155106721), because the trigger needs the downgrade to land in the few hundred milliseconds after the socket reconnects on a loaded emulator. CI sampling: dispatch the "E2E Tests" workflow with test_class: io.getstream.video.android.tests.ReconnectionTests#testReconnectionDuringCallRecording and api_level: 34 on develop versus this branch; every dispatch gives 3 independent samples.
  • Manual reproduction, if wanted: join the other side with camera and microphone off (the subscriber ICE stays NEW), then toggle the caller's network off for about 5 seconds and back, repeatedly. For a deterministic repro, add a 2 to 3 second delay before the publisher ICE restart in the fast reconnect path.
  • Note on SonarCloud coverage: the uncovered lines it may report in RtcSession are executed by the tests (the asserts prove it), but Kover cannot attribute them because RtcSessionTest2 spies on RtcSession and the MockK inline agent retransforms the class in that JVM. The extracted iceHealthTransition logic registers coverage normally.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved call recovery after reconnects, including sessions with no inbound media tracks.
    • Calls can now recover correctly while connection checks are still initializing.
    • Recovery responds more promptly to signaling connection changes instead of waiting for another network event.
    • Calls now reliably transition to reconnecting when network connectivity becomes unhealthy, and avoid falsely recovering while connectivity remains unavailable.

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SDK Size Comparison 📏

SDK Before After Difference Status
stream-video-android-core 12.30 MB 12.30 MB 0.00 MB 🟢
stream-video-android-ui-xml 5.70 MB 5.70 MB 0.00 MB 🟢
stream-video-android-ui-compose 6.23 MB 6.23 MB 0.00 MB 🟢

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Walkthrough

RtcSession now centralizes ICE health transitions, treats NEW and CHECKING as healthy for recovery, and re-evaluates health when the SFU socket state changes. Tests cover recovery, degradation, blocked recovery, and state-flow updates.

Changes

ICE health monitoring

Layer / File(s) Summary
Centralize ICE health transitions
stream-video-android-core/src/main/kotlin/.../call/RtcSession.kt
evaluateIceHealth now delegates to iceHealthTransition. NEW and CHECKING count as healthy for recovery. SFU socket state changes trigger health evaluation.
Validate ICE state transitions
stream-video-android-core/src/test/kotlin/.../rtc/RtcSessionTest2.kt
Tests cover recovery, blocked recovery, degradation, and updates to the connection state flow.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to ddd6b

This change can clear calls that are incorrectly stuck reconnecting, but the current implementation may also report a call as Connected while a peer is closed or still negotiating, and asynchronous state updates may overwrite a newer failure state. These bounded correctness risks should be addressed or explicitly accepted before merging.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant RtcSession
  participant ICEConnections
  participant SFUSocketState
  participant ConnectionStateFlow
  ICEConnections->>RtcSession: provide publisher and subscriber ICE states
  SFUSocketState->>RtcSession: emit socket state change
  RtcSession->>RtcSession: evaluateIceHealth
  RtcSession->>ConnectionStateFlow: apply Connected or Reconnecting
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Suggested reviewers: aleksandar-apostolov, pratimmallick, rahul-lohra

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A rabbit checks the ICE with care
NEW and CHECKING wait in air
The socket rings, the states align
Reconnecting turns Connected fine
Bad paths hop to warning ground

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stream-video-android-core/src/test/kotlin/io/getstream/video/android/core/rtc/RtcSessionTest2.kt (1)

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Use TestBase for this unit-test fixture.

RtcSessionTest2 contains fast unit tests but does not extend TestBase. Convert the fixture to use TestBase so the new tests use the required shared unit-test setup.

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- Around line 2199-2202: Update badIceStates to include
PeerConnection.IceConnectionState.CLOSED so iceHealthTransition treats closed
ICE connections as unhealthy, and add a test covering the reconnecting call path
where a closed publisher or subscriber connection must not become Connected.

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- Line 86: Update the RtcSessionTest2 test fixture to extend TestBase,
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… reconnect

RealtimeConnection.Connected has a single writer after a reconnect: the ICE
health monitor. Its recovery required both peer connections to reach an
established ICE state, but a peer connection with nothing to negotiate stays
NEW forever (the subscriber right after a reconnect with no inbound tracks),
so the recovery never fired and the UI showed 'Reconnecting..' indefinitely.
The nightly testReconnectionDuringCallRecording kept exhausting its retries
on exactly this: socket reconnected, publisher ICE CONNECTED, subscriber NEW.

- Extract the decision into iceHealthTransition and recover when the SFU
  socket is connected and no ICE side is bad (DISCONNECTED or FAILED),
  instead of requiring both sides to be established. A side that fails later
  still flips the state back through the degraded branch.
- Re-evaluate on SFU socket state changes too, so recovery does not depend
  on a later ICE edge.
- evaluateIceHealth is an internal member so the wrapper is directly
  testable; pure unit tests pin the contract on both ICE sides, including
  the exact state combination from the CI logs, and the recovery test fails
  against the old predicate.
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andremion force-pushed the andrerego/and-1481-connection-state-stays-reconnecting-after-a-reconnect-when-a branch from ddd6b27 to 64cb210 Compare September 2, 2026 08:45
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