Add manual workflow to build a version-code-consistent APK for ad-hoc distribution - #236
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… distribution Adds prepare-publication.yml (workflow_dispatch) that reuses the release signing key and computes version_code as the combined run count of itself and build-release.yml, so the two never collide. A shared concurrency group on both workflows prevents a race on that computation.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe release workflow now computes a shared version code from release and snapshot run counts. A manually triggered snapshot workflow prepares signing inputs, builds a release Android artifact, and uploads the APK and bundle. ChangesAndroid workflow automation
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The workflows can generate duplicate or lower APK version codes after reruns or API failures, which may prevent ad-hoc or release distribution; the signing path also needs confirmation that version tags are protected. The PR is not merge-ready until the allocator fails closed and uses a durable reservation, with tag protection explicitly verified. Poem
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build-release.yml derived its version code from github.run_number, which counts only its own runs and is blind to prepare-publication.yml. With 25 release runs so far, the first ad-hoc build would take 25+1+40=66 and the next release would take 26+40=66 as well, then fall behind: 67 after 68 was already published. The concurrency group cannot fix this, because run_number is assigned when the run is queued, not when the step executes. Both workflows now sum the same two counters, so every run of either one advances the code by exactly one. Reading those counts needs actions: read, which an explicit permissions block otherwise withholds.
prepare-publication named a step in a process, while the workflows beside it name what they produce: build-debug, build-release. What this one produces is a release-signed build from an arbitrary commit with no tag behind it, which is what snapshot means. Not build-rc: release candidates already exist here as published pre-release tags (v0.6.0-rc.1, v0.3.3-rc.2) and are built by build-release.yml, so the name would claim a meaning the repository has already given away. The version code counter is keyed by workflow file name, so the rename is free only while the workflow has no runs yet.
The version name travels to the management server as the peer's ui_version and is what the about screen shows, so it is the only thing telling support which build a peer is running. build-debug.yml already emits ci-<sha> from the same expression, which left an unsigned PR build and a release-signed hand-out looking identical in the peer list. The artifact keeps just the version name; prefixing it again read as snapshot-artifacts-snapshot-<sha>.
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In @.github/workflows/build-release.yml:
- Around line 60-64: Replace the run-count arithmetic and zero fallbacks
assigning version_code in .github/workflows/build-release.yml lines 60-64 with a
shared persistent, monotonically increasing reservation held under a lock; fail
the workflow if reservation or persistence fails. Apply the identical
reservation and fail-closed behavior in .github/workflows/build-snapshot.yml
lines 51-55, ensuring reruns cannot reuse a previously issued version code.
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| release_runs=$(gh api "repos/${{ github.repository }}/actions/workflows/build-release.yml/runs?per_page=1" --jq '.total_count' 2>/dev/null || echo 0) | ||
| snapshot_runs=$(gh api "repos/${{ github.repository }}/actions/workflows/build-snapshot.yml/runs?per_page=1" --jq '.total_count' 2>/dev/null || echo 0) | ||
| version_code=$((release_runs + snapshot_runs + 40)) | ||
| echo "Release runs: $release_runs, snapshot runs: $snapshot_runs -> version_code=$version_code" | ||
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Use a durable, fail-closed version-code allocator.
Workflow-run totals do not allocate one value per build. A rerun operates on the existing workflow run and the API records its run_attempt; this calculation uses only total_count. A rerun can therefore rebuild with its previous version code. Also, each || echo 0 accepts an API or permission failure as a valid count, which can issue a lower or duplicate code. GitHub documents reruns against an existing workflow run and exposes run_attempt separately in workflow-run records. (docs.github.com)
Reserve a persistent monotonically increasing value while holding the shared lock. Fail the build when reservation fails. Do not derive the value from API list counts.
.github/workflows/build-release.yml#L60-L64: replace run-count arithmetic and the zero fallback with the shared persistent reservation..github/workflows/build-snapshot.yml#L51-L55: use the same reservation implementation and fail-closed behavior.
#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail
repo="$(gh repo view --json nameWithOwner --jq '.nameWithOwner')"
for workflow in build-release.yml build-snapshot.yml; do
gh api --paginate \
"repos/$repo/actions/workflows/$workflow/runs?per_page=100" \
--jq '.workflow_runs[] | select(.run_attempt > 1) | [.id, .run_number, .run_attempt] | `@tsv`'
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In @.github/workflows/build-release.yml around lines 60 - 64, Replace the
run-count arithmetic and zero fallbacks assigning version_code in
.github/workflows/build-release.yml lines 60-64 with a shared persistent,
monotonically increasing reservation held under a lock; fail the workflow if
reservation or persistence fails. Apply the identical reservation and
fail-closed behavior in .github/workflows/build-snapshot.yml lines 51-55,
ensuring reruns cannot reuse a previously issued version code.
CI builds used the version only when the submodule sat exactly on a tag and fell back to ci-<sha> otherwise, which the management server rejects in NBVersionCheck posture checks: it treats ci- as a development build everywhere except there. Since the submodule is bumped more often than it is tagged, release builds effectively always shipped as ci-<sha>. CI now resolves the version by walking the pinned commit's ancestry back to the last stable release tag and appending the commit as SemVer build metadata, e.g. 0.77.0+f06b8c762. The server strips build metadata before every comparison, so this passes the same gates as a plain 0.77.0 while still naming the exact commit in the dashboard. Pre-release tags are skipped as a base: a suffix like -rc.2 lands in SemVer pre-release position, which the server compares differently from a release. Local builds now always produce dev-<sha>, which skips every server-side version gate; a developer who needs a real version passes it as the argument. The ancestry walk needs full history, but actions/checkout clones submodules shallow — the tags arrive without the commits between HEAD and the tag, and the walk would silently come up empty. The composite action therefore unshallows the submodule before building, guarded because --unshallow on a complete repository is a hard error.
The zero fallback existed for one legitimate case: the runs endpoint returns 404 until a workflow has run or reached the default branch, and treating that as zero is what lets build-release compute a code before build-snapshot's first run. But it also swallowed every other failure — a network error or a revoked token minted a version code far below the published ones, silently for hand-distributed snapshots. Keep the 404-means-zero case and abort on everything else, including a non-numeric response, which bash arithmetic would otherwise fold to zero.
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Adds prepare-publication.yml (workflow_dispatch) that reuses the release signing key and computes version_code as the combined run count of itself and build-release.yml, so the two never collide. A shared concurrency group on both workflows prevents a race on that computation.
Update go versioning to handle the tags from branches.
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