The debug APK step dominated the run (~7m32s of ~10m) and ran on
every dev push, but the operator dev-tests via a local Android
Studio build, not the CI artifact. Gate the debug APK + its
artifact upload to main pushes only: dev = analyze+test+codegen
(~3min); main = + debug APK as the native-build safety net
(Gradle/manifest/plugin breakage analyze+test can't catch) before
any release tag; tags = signed release APK (unchanged).
Note: the bulk of that 7m32s was the flutter-ci runner image
re-installing NDK 28.2.13676358 + build-tools 35 + platform 35/36
+ cmake 3.22.1 every run (image baked platform-34/build-tools-34,
stale vs the bundled Flutter's requirements). Baking those into
CI-Runner/CI-flutter/Dockerfile is the larger win and also speeds
release builds — tracked separately (operator-side infra, not in
this repo).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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