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Builds the fat APK and puts it in Gitea's *generic* package registry, which unlike the repository is readable without credentials -- the reason an Obtainium client can poll a plain URL with no token and no public mirror of the source. A versioned copy for history, a fixed `latest` URL to watch. **Its own workflow, not a job in ci.yml.** That workflow runs on every branch push and is the one that gates; this takes tens of minutes on a cold cache and the runner has capacity 1, so hanging it off the gate would put every push behind an SDK download. **Keyed on the tag.** The ljos pipeline this is modelled on computes a version in CI and cuts the release itself, then gates its Android job on needs.release.outputs.version with an always() whose absence silently kills the manual path. This repo has no release automation -- tags are pushed by hand and homebrew-formula.yml already keys on v* -- so the tag is the version and none of that machinery, or its failure modes, is needed. **No continue-on-error**, which that pipeline does carry: there the Android job shares a workflow with a server deploy that must never go red over a phone build. Here it is standalone and can neither delay nor redden anything, so a release step that fails silently would be strictly worse than one that fails visibly. Four gates before anything is published, each checked against a real APK: a non-empty artifact, both ABIs present, a versionCode equal to the one derived from the tag, and -- verified by pointing it at a deliberately debug-signed build, which it refused -- **not signed with the debug key**. Android refuses to update an app whose signing certificate changed and the only remedy is an uninstall that takes the user's library with it, so the job also refuses to *build* without the keystore secret rather than falling through to Gradle's debug default. The keystore is opened with `keytool -list` before Gradle runs, because Gradle only notices a bad password at :app:validateSigningRelease, a minute of build time in, and reports it as a missing file. And nothing pipes into `head`: under pipefail it exits after one line, the producer takes SIGPIPE and the step fails with 141 having already printed a perfectly good APK. Two secrets, not four. keytool has produced PKCS12 by default since JDK 9 regardless of the .jks extension, and PKCS12 cannot hold a key password distinct from the store password -- given one it says so and ignores it. So ANDROID_KEY_PASSWORD defaults to the store password and the alias to a documented default. The Wails CLI needs no caching hack here: it is a vendored `go tool` and the runner already bind-mounts GOCACHE for every job, so it is warm from ci.yml's own bindings-check. A fourth cache volume for GRADLE_USER_HOME saves ~700MB a run.
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Releasing the Android APK
.gitea/workflows/android-apk.yml builds a signed fat APK
(arm64-v8a + x86_64) on every v* tag and publishes it to Gitea's
generic package registry, which is readable without credentials —
which is what lets Obtainium poll a plain URL with no token.
https://git.ljones.me/api/packages/yonlu/generic/yellowjacket-android/latest/yellowjacket.apk
A versioned copy is kept alongside it at
…/yellowjacket-android/<version>/yellowjacket-<version>.apk.
The app on the device is app.yellowjacket. Its launcher activity is
com.wails.app.MainActivity — a different package, because that is the
Wails scaffold's Java package and renaming it would mean renaming its
source. Every am start needs the fully-qualified form.
The signing key is the thing you cannot lose
Android refuses to update an app whose signing certificate changed. There is no override and no recovery: the only way to install a build signed with a different key is to uninstall first, which takes the user's library, playlists and play counts with it. The key therefore outlives every other secret in this repo.
Two consequences are wired into the workflow rather than left to
discipline. It refuses to build when ANDROID_KEYSTORE_B64 is
absent, instead of falling through to Gradle's debug-keystore default —
a debug key differs between every machine and every CI runner, so a
build signed with one is un-updatable from the moment it is installed.
And it refuses to publish an APK whose certificate reads
CN=Android Debug, which is the same rule enforced one step later, on
the artifact rather than the configuration.
Creating it
keytool -genkeypair -v \
-keystore yellowjacket-release.jks \
-alias yellowjacket \
-keyalg RSA -keysize 2048 -validity 10000 \
-storepass '<a long random password>' \
-dname "CN=YellowJacket, O=Shadow-Puppet, C=GB"
Do not pass -keypass. keytool has produced PKCS12 keystores by
default since JDK 9 — the .jks extension does not change the format —
and PKCS12 cannot hold a key password distinct from the store password.
Given one it tells you so and ignores it:
Warning: Different store and key passwords not supported for PKCS12
KeyStores. Ignoring user-specified -keypass value.
So there is one password. Asking for a second is how someone sets a wrong value and then debugs Gradle at midnight.
Back the .jks up somewhere that is not this repository and not this
server. Record the certificate fingerprint the build prints
(Signer #1 certificate SHA-256 digest); if it ever changes, updates
have already broken.
The secrets
Repository → Settings → Actions → Secrets.
| Secret | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|
ANDROID_KEYSTORE_B64 |
yes | base64 -w0 yellowjacket-release.jks |
ANDROID_KEYSTORE_PASSWORD |
yes | the -storepass above |
ANDROID_KEY_ALIAS |
no | defaults to yellowjacket |
ANDROID_KEY_PASSWORD |
no | defaults to the store password, and per the PKCS12 note it cannot differ |
PACKAGE_TOKEN |
already set | shared with arch-package.yml; publishes to the registry |
base64 -w0 yellowjacket-release.jks # paste as ANDROID_KEYSTORE_B64
Cutting a release
git tag v1.3.1
git push origin v1.3.1
That is the whole trigger. homebrew-formula.yml keys on the same tag,
so the desktop formula and the APK are cut together. The version code
Android orders releases by is derived from the tag — 1.3.1 → 10301,
monotonic as long as minor and patch stay below 100 — so do not
publish 1.100.0, and never move a tag that has already been built.
workflow_dispatch rebuilds without a new tag, taking an explicit
version input or falling back to the latest v* tag.
What the workflow checks before publishing
- the APK exists and is non-empty;
- it carries both ABIs (
native-code: 'arm64-v8a' 'x86_64'), or it is not the fat APK it claims to be; - its
versionCodeis the one derived from the tag; - it is not signed with the debug key.
The keystore is also opened with keytool -list before Gradle runs,
because Gradle only notices a bad password at
:app:validateSigningRelease — a minute of build time in — and reports
it as a missing file rather than a wrong password.
Caches, and the first run
The job mounts four cache volumes; on a cold runner the first build is slow and everything after it is not.
| Volume | Holds | Cold cost |
|---|---|---|
/cache/android-sdk |
SDK, platform, build-tools, NDK r26d | ~2 GB |
/cache/gradle |
GRADLE_USER_HOME — wrapper + AGP graph |
~700 MB |
/cache/tool |
the Go toolchain (shared with ci.yml) |
~200 MB |
/cache/pnpm-store |
pnpm store (shared with ci.yml) |
— |
Every path must be inside the runner's valid_volumes allowlist. One
that is not makes the job fail to start rather than silently skip
the mount.
The NDK is pinned to r26d (26.3.11579264). Newer NDKs have broken
the Wails Android build before; it is a version, not a floor.
Building one locally
make android # unsigned-ish: debug key, versionCode 1, 0.0.0
YJ_VERSION=1.3.1 YJ_VERSION_CODE=10301 \
ANDROID_KEYSTORE_FILE=$PWD/yellowjacket-release.jks \
ANDROID_KEYSTORE_PASSWORD=... ANDROID_KEY_ALIAS=yellowjacket \
make android # what CI produces
Running it is a separate tier — see
.pi/skills/yellowjacket-dev/references/android-tier.md, and read its
first section before you try, because a failing Android build looks
exactly like a working one.