Support ad-hoc snapsot APK from CI - #242
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… distribution (#236) * Add manual workflow to build a version-code-consistent APK for ad-hoc distribution Adds prepare-publication.yml (workflow_dispatch) that reuses the release signing key and computes version_code as the combined run count of itself and build-release.yml, so the two never collide. A shared concurrency group on both workflows prevents a race on that computation. * Draw the release version code from the shared run counter build-release.yml derived its version code from github.run_number, which counts only its own runs and is blind to prepare-publication.yml. With 25 release runs so far, the first ad-hoc build would take 25+1+40=66 and the next release would take 26+40=66 as well, then fall behind: 67 after 68 was already published. The concurrency group cannot fix this, because run_number is assigned when the run is queued, not when the step executes. Both workflows now sum the same two counters, so every run of either one advances the code by exactly one. Reading those counts needs actions: read, which an explicit permissions block otherwise withholds. * Name the manual workflow build-snapshot prepare-publication named a step in a process, while the workflows beside it name what they produce: build-debug, build-release. What this one produces is a release-signed build from an arbitrary commit with no tag behind it, which is what snapshot means. Not build-rc: release candidates already exist here as published pre-release tags (v0.6.0-rc.1, v0.3.3-rc.2) and are built by build-release.yml, so the name would claim a meaning the repository has already given away. The version code counter is keyed by workflow file name, so the rename is free only while the workflow has no runs yet. * Label snapshot builds snapshot- rather than ci- The version name travels to the management server as the peer's ui_version and is what the about screen shows, so it is the only thing telling support which build a peer is running. build-debug.yml already emits ci-<sha> from the same expression, which left an unsigned PR build and a release-signed hand-out looking identical in the peer list. The artifact keeps just the version name; prefixing it again read as snapshot-artifacts-snapshot-<sha>. * Resolve the Go version from the submodule's release tags in CI CI builds used the version only when the submodule sat exactly on a tag and fell back to ci-<sha> otherwise, which the management server rejects in NBVersionCheck posture checks: it treats ci- as a development build everywhere except there. Since the submodule is bumped more often than it is tagged, release builds effectively always shipped as ci-<sha>. CI now resolves the version by walking the pinned commit's ancestry back to the last stable release tag and appending the commit as SemVer build metadata, e.g. 0.77.0+f06b8c762. The server strips build metadata before every comparison, so this passes the same gates as a plain 0.77.0 while still naming the exact commit in the dashboard. Pre-release tags are skipped as a base: a suffix like -rc.2 lands in SemVer pre-release position, which the server compares differently from a release. Local builds now always produce dev-<sha>, which skips every server-side version gate; a developer who needs a real version passes it as the argument. The ancestry walk needs full history, but actions/checkout clones submodules shallow — the tags arrive without the commits between HEAD and the tag, and the walk would silently come up empty. The composite action therefore unshallows the submodule before building, guarded because --unshallow on a complete repository is a hard error. * Document the three build workflows and their differences * Fail the build when a run count cannot be fetched The zero fallback existed for one legitimate case: the runs endpoint returns 404 until a workflow has run or reached the default branch, and treating that as zero is what lets build-release compute a code before build-snapshot's first run. But it also swallowed every other failure — a network error or a revoked token minted a version code far below the published ones, silently for hand-distributed snapshots. Keep the 404-means-zero case and abort on everything else, including a non-numeric response, which bash arithmetic would otherwise fold to zero.
* Pin gobind alongside gomobile instead of running gomobile init gomobile bind shells out to gobind, and gobind is the tool that actually generates the Java bindings and the JNI glue. CI cached and installed only gomobile and left the build script to call `gomobile init`, which installs gobind from @latest: the driver was pinned while the generator floated, so the generated API could change without a commit here. Take the revision from the go.mod the submodule already carries, so the two tools cannot drift apart and the cache key follows a submodule bump on its own, and have the build script check that the pair is present rather than reaching for gomobile init. The cache key names both tools now. Entries saved under the old key hold no gobind, so keeping it would hit the cache, skip the install and leave the build without a generator. * Install gomobile and gobind automatically at the go.mod pinned revision
setup-java fails to resolve the 'adopt' distribution — AdoptOpenJDK was renamed to Eclipse Temurin and the old endpoints are going away — so the build died before installing a JDK. Same JDK, current name. (cherry picked from commit 8592de3)
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe Android build now uses pinned mobile tools, cached NDK setup, stable version resolution, shared release and snapshot version codes, and a manually triggered signed snapshot workflow. Documentation describes the build, signing, versioning, and artifact rules. ChangesAndroid build and versioning
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Concurrent builds can receive the same Android version code, causing ad-hoc or release artifacts to collide or be rejected and making updates unreliable. The version reservation logic should be fixed before merging. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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GitHubActions->>GitHubAPI: Query release and snapshot run counts
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GitHubActions->>AndroidWorkflow: Set shared version_code
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AndroidWorkflow->>ArtifactStorage: Upload artifacts for 14 days
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In @.github/workflows/build-release.yml:
- Around line 79-83: Replace the count_runs-based version_code calculation in
both .github/workflows/build-release.yml (lines 79-83) and
.github/workflows/build-snapshot.yml (lines 70-74) with an atomic, durable
reservation mechanism that reserves the Android version code before counting or
proceeding, ensuring concurrent and queued runs cannot receive the same value.
Update docs/versioning.md (line 43) to document the new reservation-based
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| release_runs=$(count_runs build-release.yml) | ||
| snapshot_runs=$(count_runs build-snapshot.yml) | ||
| version_code=$((release_runs + snapshot_runs + 40)) | ||
| echo "Release runs: $release_runs, snapshot runs: $snapshot_runs -> version_code=$version_code" | ||
| echo "version_code=$version_code" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT" |
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According to GitHub REST API documentation for listing workflow runs, does total_count include queued and in-progress runs when no status filter is supplied?
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Yes, according to the GitHub REST API documentation, the total_count field returned by the "List workflow runs for a repository" and "List workflow runs for a workflow" endpoints represents the total number of workflow runs that match the criteria specified in your request [1][2][3]. When no status filter is supplied, the API does not restrict the results by status, meaning the total_count includes all workflow runs, including those that are queued, in-progress, or in any other state [1][2][4]. The status parameter is an optional filter; if omitted, the default behavior is to return workflow runs across all statuses [1][3].
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- 1: https://docs.github.com/en/rest/actions/workflow-runs?apiVersion=2026-03-10
- 2: https://docs.github.com/rest/actions/workflow-runs
- 3: https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server@3.19/rest/actions/workflow-runs
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Reserve the Android version code before counting workflow runs.
total_count includes queued and in-progress runs when no status filter is set. A pending run can therefore be counted by the active run and by itself after it acquires the concurrency lock. Both runs can receive the same version_code.
Replace the shared count-based calculation in both workflows with an atomic, durable reservation mechanism. Update docs/versioning.md to describe the new allocation rule.
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In @.github/workflows/build-release.yml around lines 79 - 83, Replace the
count_runs-based version_code calculation in both
.github/workflows/build-release.yml (lines 79-83) and
.github/workflows/build-snapshot.yml (lines 70-74) with an atomic, durable
reservation mechanism that reserves the Android version code before counting or
proceeding, ensuring concurrent and queued runs cannot receive the same value.
Update docs/versioning.md (line 43) to document the new reservation-based
allocation rule.
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The finding is valid but for the fix hould refactor the CI concept from the ground. The chance for this issue is low because this code has been triggered by manually and at least in Google Play Store will throw error.
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@pappz, agreed. The finding remains valid, but the required atomic version-code allocator is larger than this PR.
Google Play Store will reject a duplicate version code. The CI workflow can still produce artifacts that cannot be published.
If this work is out of scope, would you like me to create a GitHub follow-up issue for the CI redesign?
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build-snapshot.yml,build-release.yml,build-android-lib.sh,docs/versioning.md): a manually triggered workflow that builds a version-code-consistent APK for ad-hoc distribution, plus the versioning scheme documentation.build-android-lib.sh,build-android/action.yml): gomobile bind shells out to gobind, whichgomobile initused to install from@latestwhile gomobile itself was pinned. Both tools are now installed at the revision from the submodule'sgo.mod, and the CI cache key names both so stale gomobile-only entries are not reused.adoptdistribution fails outright since AdoptOpenJDK became Eclipse Temurin.netbird/go.sumand an Android NDK cache in the build action.Notes
netbirdsubmodule stays at main's v0.77.0 pointer; itsgo.modcarries thegolang.org/x/mobilepin the gobind logic resolves.build-debug.ymlchange from the source branch (excluding the e2e test package from instrumented CI runs) is left out, as the e2e package does not exist on main yet.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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