Home-screen widgets were stuck on the Glance loading layout (a blank spinner)
in the minified release build — but worked in debug. Root cause: Glance renders
every widget through a WorkManager worker (androidx.glance.session.SessionWorker),
and WorkManager instantiates the InputMerger reflectively from the fully-qualified
class name persisted in the WorkSpec (Class.newInstance, no-arg ctor). Under R8
full mode (AGP 9 default) the unused no-arg constructor of
androidx.work.OverwritingInputMerger was stripped, so WorkManager threw
"OverwritingInputMerger has no zero argument constructor", the SessionWorker
never ran, and provideContent never executed — leaving the widget on its
initial loading layout forever.
Same R8-reflection family as the v2.7.0 Room keep-rule fix. Keep the name +
constructor of every androidx.work.InputMerger.
Verified on-device with the releaseTest build (R8-minified): the agenda widget,
which showed only a spinner before, now renders its content; the WM-InputMerger
InstantiationException is gone. Closes #18. Cuts v2.7.3.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Make fastlane/metadata/android/ the single source of truth for store
listing metadata, consumed directly by the official F-Droid repo and
transformed into the self-hosted repo's localized layout at release time.
- Move fdroid-metadata/<appid>/<locale>/ -> fastlane/metadata/android/<locale>/
(git-tracked renames: summary->short_description, description->full_description,
+ title.txt, images/icon.png, images/phoneScreenshots/); keep the app-level
.yml control file for the self-hosted `fdroid update`.
- Add scripts/fastlane_to_fdroid_localized.sh (fastlane -> F-Droid localized,
incl. changelogs) and scripts/sync_changelog_to_fastlane.sh (CHANGELOG.md ->
fastlane changelog); verified byte-identical to the previous metadata.
- release.yaml: build self-hosted metadata from the fastlane tree and sync the
per-version changelog before the transform (one changelog source for both
channels).
- Disable AGP VCS-info embedding on release builds (vcsInfo { include = false })
so builds reproduce byte-for-byte vs the distributed APK — the only file that
otherwise differed (META-INF/version-control-info.textproto). Effective from
the next release.
- Add docs/fdroid-official/ (draft fdroiddata recipe: reproducible build +
AllowedAPKSigningKeys + Binaries + notes).
- Repoint README screenshots/icon, update docs/README + RELEASING, and skip the
Android build on fastlane-only changes (ci.yaml).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
