Build universal debug APK for connected tests to fix per-ABI split install (#482)

[wksantiago]

Fixes #482.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Improved recognition of connected and instrumented test Gradle tasks, including abbreviated and project-qualified commands.
  • Instrumented test builds now generate a universal debug APK for connected-device installation.
  • ABI splits remain enabled for regular builds, preserving optimized APK output.
  • Prevented incompatible commands from combining instrumented tests with release assembly or bundling, avoiding incorrect release artifacts.

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The Gradle configuration matches connected instrumented-test task names and abbreviations. It rejects release assembly or bundling during instrumented tests. It disables ABI splits for instrumented tests and preserves them for other builds.

Changes

Instrumented test APK configuration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Detect and guard instrumented-test tasks app/build.gradle.kts	Detects qualified task names, lifecycle wrappers, explicit Android test tasks, and camelCase abbreviations. Rejects invocations that combine instrumented tests with release assembly or bundling.
Configure instrumented-test APK builds app/build.gradle.kts	Disables ABI splits when instrumented tests are requested. ABI splits remain enabled for other builds.

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This change alters APK packaging for connected tests, but mixed Gradle invocations may still disable ABI splits for other variants and produce incorrect APK outputs; merge should wait for the configuration issue to be fixed or explicitly accepted by the owner.

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Poem

A rabbit checks each task by name,
Test builds follow one APK lane.
Release bundles wait apart,
ABI splits resume their part.
Gradle hops, with tests set free.

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Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes disable ABI splits for connected instrumented tests and support task variants, addressing issue #482's installation requirements.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes remain within issue #482 by targeting connected-test task detection, universal APK generation, and split-install prevention.
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In `@app/build.gradle.kts`:
- Around line 7-12: Update runningInstrumentedTests to recognize connected-test
lifecycle tasks such as connectedCheck, along with supported project-specific
wrapper tasks, so universal debug APK behavior applies to all intended
instrumented-test entry points; alternatively, explicitly document and enforce
that only connectedDebugAndroidTest is supported.
- Around line 7-12: Update the runningInstrumentedTests-driven ABI split
configuration so instrumented-test handling applies only to the debug/test
variant and cannot alter release artifacts during mixed invocations;
alternatively, reject invocations combining connectedDebugAndroidTest with
assembleRelease. Preserve per-ABI release outputs while retaining the universal
APK behavior required for the test device.

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[kwsantiago]

Blocking: this regresses FrostSigningIntegrationTest on device. The mechanism turns out to be a pre-existing race that this change makes deterministic, so the fix is probably not in this diff, but it should not merge in its current form.

The regression

Pixel 9a, Android 17, same device and same uninstall-first procedure for every run:

	tests	failures
main (3b84f1c)	291	0
this branch	290	13

All 13 are FrostSigningIntegrationTest. Reproduced twice on the full suite, and it is not test interference: running that class alone gives 13/13 failing here and 13/13 passing on main.

Why

encryptWithCipher discards the cause, so I added temporary logging to see what doFinal actually throws, and dumped the key's KeyInfo at the same moment:

EPROBE encrypt failed len=1205 authRequired=true secLevel=2 cause=IllegalBlockSizeException
EPROBE encrypt failed len=1188 authRequired=true secLevel=2 cause=IllegalBlockSizeException

keep_frost_share is auth-gated and StrongBox-backed at the point of failure, even though the test builds its storage with requireUserAuth = false. IllegalBlockSizeException is what an unauthorized auth-per-use operation throws, which matches the probe results from #503: both TEE and StrongBox fail that way with no biometric.

The alias is shared. KeepMobileApp.initializeKeepMobile() constructs AndroidKeystoreStorage(this), which defaults to requireUserAuth = true, and immediately runs migrateLegacyShareToRegistrySync(). That startup path and the test's no-auth setup both reach the same keep_frost_share, and whichever creates it first fixes its auth requirement for the other. resetIfShareKeyRequiresAuth from #504 samples this once in @Before, so it cannot prevent a creation that happens after that check.

So the race predates this PR. What this PR changes is the timing: the universal APK carries both ABIs (the arm64 libs are byte-identical, it just adds ~18MB of x86_64), and that shifts app startup enough to flip which side wins, consistently rather than occasionally.

Two smaller things

The task-name filter misses real entry points. connectedCheck is a standard AGP lifecycle task that runs instrumented tests, and cAT is the usual abbreviation; neither contains AndroidTest, so both keep splits enabled and still hit #482. CI is unaffected since ci.yml:207 invokes connectedDebugAndroidTest explicitly, but a local connectedCheck would silently not get the fix.

The test count also drops by one, 291 to 290, with skips unchanged at 5 in both. I did not chase which test goes missing, but a test disappearing rather than failing is worth understanding before this lands.

On #482 itself

I could not reproduce the original bug. ./gradlew connectedDebugAndroidTest has worked repeatedly on this Pixel 9a all session, including the 291/0 run above, so I can confirm the mechanism here does what it says (assembleDebug alone still emits per-ABI splits; adding an AndroidTest task emits a single universal APK) and that the release per-ABI versionCode block is untouched since it is scoped withBuildType("release"). What I cannot confirm is that it fixes a failure that reproduces here. It may well reproduce on your setup, and that is worth pinning down, because right now the change carries a real cost against a benefit I cannot observe.

[wksantiago]

Thanks for the thorough repro — this is exactly the level of detail that made the two smaller items actionable.

Task-name filter (cAT). Fixed in 0065f3c. e32c632 had already broadened the match to the substring "connected", which does cover connectedCheck, but you're right that camelCase abbreviations slip through — cAT, cC, cDAT contain neither "connected" nor "AndroidTest". The commit adds an abbreviation matcher (equal camel-hump count, each hump a case-insensitive prefix of a canonical connected-test task name) plus :app:-prefix stripping. Verified ./gradlew --dry-run cAT configures clean and disables splits; the matcher flips true for cAT/cC/cDAT/aDAT/aAT and false for cat/assembleDebug/assembleRelease/bundleRelease/connect/c, so the release per-ABI split path stays untouched.

291 → 290. I dug into this statically: every androidTest class is a plain @RunWith(AndroidJUnit4) — no Parameterized, no dynamic or ABI-gated enumeration anywhere — so the test set is identical on both branches and nothing in the diff can remove a test at enumeration time. That means the drop is a runtime lost result, not a missing test: one test executes on main but never reports on this branch. It's deterministic and device-independent (I see 290/5-skip/0-fail on a Pixel 7a; you see 290 on the 9a), and since it happens even with zero failures, it's the same mechanism you traced for FrostSigning — the universal APK's extra ~18MB x86_64 payload shifts app-process startup and perturbs the keep_frost_share alias race. A test whose result gets dropped when startup timing moves points at something process-lifecycle-sensitive (the cross-process Nip55CrossProcessRequestInstrumentedTest or a kill-switch test are the likeliest candidates); pinning the exact one needs a per-test result diff between main and this branch on device.

On the blocker itself. Fully agree it shouldn't merge as-is and that the fix isn't in this diff. The 13 FrostSigning failures and the 291→290 drop are one and the same pre-existing race, which the universal APK only makes deterministic. The real fix belongs in a separate change hardening the keep_frost_share auth-gate / startup-migration path (resetIfShareKeyRequiresAuth sampling once in @Before can't catch a creation after that check), tied to the #503/#504 work rather than the build config here.

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@kwsantiago — rebased onto current main (0b2dde7) and re-ran the suite on the Pixel 7a (Android 17, the original #482 repro device):

./gradlew :app:connectedDebugAndroidTest
BUILD SUCCESSFUL in 9m 47s
0 failed, 5 skipped — no installPackages error

This clears both blocking items:

• Install path (connectedDebugAndroidTest fails to install per-ABI splits and misreports it as failing tests #482): universal debug APK installs and the suite runs end-to-end on the arm64 device — no installPackages death.
• 13 FrostSigning failures + 291→290 lost result: gone. These were a pre-existing keep_frost_share startup race, not this diff's logic — the branch was cut before Always use no-auth storage in FrostSigningIntegrationTest #504 ("Always use no-auth storage in FrostSigningIntegrationTest") landed. Rebasing pulled Always use no-auth storage in FrostSigningIntegrationTest #504 in and the race is fixed; nothing is dropped now (the cross-process tests survive startup and report cleanly).

Footprint vs main is unchanged — app/build.gradle.kts only (+58/-1). The camelCase filter fix (cAT/cC/cDAT via abbreviatesCamelCase) and the release+instrumented refusal guard are in the rebased tip.

[kwsantiago]

Retracting my blocker. You were right, and the misattribution was mine.

I tested tip 1caca30, whose parent is 133b370 (#505). 5ff1528 (#504, "Always use no-auth storage in FrostSigningIntegrationTest") is not an ancestor of it:

$ git merge-base --is-ancestor 5ff1528 1caca30 && echo HAD || echo LACKED
LACKED

So my A/B compared main with #504 against a branch without it, and reported the difference as this PR's regression. The 13 failures were the missing commit. My "startup race between the app's auth-gated storage and the test's no-auth storage" was wrong too, and wrong in a more annoying way: without #504 the @Before still branches on hasBiometricEnrollment() and picks the app's auth-gated storage, which alone accounts for the authRequired=true secLevel=2 I logged. Every additional piece of evidence I gathered fit that simpler story just as well; I read them as confirming a mechanism I had already decided on.

The specific trap, since it will catch someone else: gh pr diff renders against the merge base, so this looked like a clean one-file change, while git checkout gives the branch's full state, three merged commits behind. One git merge-base --is-ancestor before the comparison would have caught it, and that is now part of how I set up an A/B.

Verified on the rebased tip 0b2dde7, Pixel 9a, Android 17:

291 tests, 0 failures, 5 skipped

Identical to main. Local gate green as well (unit tests, lintDebug, RNG hygiene guard). Both of my smaller findings are addressed, and I checked them rather than assuming: ./gradlew cAT --dry-run now resolves :app:connectedAndroidTest, and substringAfterLast(':') means :app:-prefixed names match too.

The release guard is a better catch than anything I raised. I had checked that the androidComponents versionCode block is scoped withBuildType("release") and concluded the F-Droid path was safe; I stopped one level short of noticing that splits.abi is itself global, so a mixed invocation would strip the release splits and emit a universal release APK at the base versionCode. Refusing the invocation outright is the right call, and the message says exactly why. Confirmed it fires:

$ ./gradlew assembleRelease connectedDebugAndroidTest --dry-run
FAILURE: Do not request instrumented tests and a release build in the same Gradle invocation...

One thing still worth a line in the PR body or the issue, purely for the record: I could not reproduce #482 on the Pixel 9a at any point, and you reproduced it on the Pixel 7a. Worth noting that it is device-specific rather than universal, so nobody later reads a green run on one device as evidence the underlying install problem is gone.

No blockers.