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logan 0bfa2136be feat(dev): ask the phone instead of looking at it
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The device tier could only take a screenshot and read what Go chose to
log, and a screenshot cannot tell a dropped CSS declaration from a
missing asset. This adds the third thing: the page's own answer, from
the engine that is really rendering it.

`make android-screenshot` grabs the screen, `make android-inspect`
forwards the WebView's devtools socket, and `make android-eval EXPR=...`
evaluates in the real page.

Four details are load-bearing. Only a `debuggable` build opens that
socket, so the debug build type takes `applicationIdSuffix ".dev"` and
installs *beside* the release app -- the two carry different signing
certificates, and Android's only remedy for a changed certificate is an
uninstall, which takes the user's library with it. Playwright cannot
drive a WebView (`connectOverCDP` calls `Browser.setDownloadBehavior`,
which it answers "Browser context management is not supported"), so the
eval is raw CDP over Node's built-in WebSocket. The socket name carries
the pid, so it is resolved per launch rather than written down. And
`exec-out`, not `shell`, for the screenshot: a pty translates LF and
corrupts the PNG.

What it immediately established is why it was worth having. The phone
renders in Chrome 113 at 424x439 CSS px -- two years behind every
browser the other tiers use, with no Popover API and no relaxed CSS
nesting -- so a spec passing at that viewport says nothing about the
device, and two conclusions drawn from version numbers alone were wrong.
Both are corrected in NOTES.md and the plan.
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