Barony Android Port 5.0.2 Beta 9

Barony Android Port 5.0.2 Beta 9

Beta 9 fixes the startup failure during Barony's Halloween and winter-holiday
dates and improves touch, keyboard, and mouse input. It retains Beta 8's
experimental direct LAN multiplayer and the earlier rendering, owned-data,
save-management, and DLC-entitlement improvements.

Fixed

• The game no longer stops with "Barony has encountered a critical error and
  cannot start" from October 1 to November 1 and during December (#9, #10).
  Owned-data archives without Barony's optional seasonal themes now start with
  the normal look on those dates. Changing the device date is no longer
  necessary.
• Base game data and language files now load before theme or mod overrides,
  so seasonal lighting and text are layered over the base files instead of
  replacing them.
• Connecting both an external keyboard and an external mouse, for example over
  Bluetooth, now hides the on-screen touch controls the same way a gamepad
  does. Disconnecting either one restores them (#6).
• Mouse clicks always reach the game and never press on-screen touch buttons.
• The inventory touch layout now includes LT and RT, which open the
  spell list and the skill sheet (#7).

Optional seasonal themes

The archive builder and the ADB data installer accept -IncludeHolidayThemes
to also include Barony's Halloween and winter-holiday themes, which adds about
170 MB. Existing archives do not need to be rebuilt; rebuild only if you want
the seasonal textures, music, and lighting during those dates. Barony's
Festive Content setting can still turn the theme off on the device.

Verification

• Clean signed ARM64 release build from commit
  9a37523d8e88f7ec8000224f03a06642cb314379.
• The APK passed signature, package/version/SDK, exact permission, exact ARM64
  native-library, open-source-notice, and commercial-data boundary checks.
• Runtime testing for this release used an Android 15 x86_64 emulator and the
  ARM64 build under the emulator's ARM translation, not physical phones:
  • On October 15 the previous build reproduced the startup failure. Beta 9
    code reached the main menu with and without the seasonal themes, showed
    the Halloween menu with all of its text, loaded the December theme on a
    simulated December date, and entered Level 1.
  • An archive with the seasonal themes imported through the Android document
    picker; an archive with an unexpected theme folder was rejected.
  • Simulated Bluetooth keyboard, mouse, and gamepad connections hid and
    restored the touch controls as described above, and LT/RT opened the spell
    list and the skill sheet.
• Hosted Android CI built and verified clean smoke and full ARM64 debug APKs
  from public main.

Reports from physical devices are especially welcome for this release.

Compatibility

• ARM64 devices running Android 8.0 or newer.
• Offline single-player and experimental direct LAN multiplayer.
• Gamepad, mouse/keyboard, and optional touch controls.
• Users must own compatible Barony 5.0.2 game data and any DLC they enable.
• Existing Beta 5 or newer owned-data archives, saves, settings, and transferred
  DLC entitlements remain compatible; no archive rebuild is required.