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Part 4/11 of the stacked split of #1669 (requested by Akash). Base: feature/ADFA-4128-qb-03-protocol. Stack overview + review mechanics: PR 1 (#1713). Terms are defined in quickbuild/README.md (lands in PR 1).

Lets a running app take on new code, resources and assets without being reinstalled. This is what makes a save feel instant instead of costing a full rebuild.

flowchart TB
    host["CoGo deploy channel<br/>(core deploy slice, PR 6)"] -- "AIDL onPayload:<br/>dex/resources/assets as fds" --> client
    subgraph rt["<b>This PR: :quickbuild:runtime — Java-only AAR inside the proxy app</b>"]
        client["QuickBuildClient<br/>binds out to CoGo by package<br/><i>QuickBuildClient.java</i>"] --> store["payload persistence<br/>all-or-nothing on disk, quarantine<br/><i>PayloadPersistence.java</i>"]
        store --> cl["classloader routing<br/>payload classes win<br/><i>LoaderRouter.java</i>"]
        store --> res["resource swap, 3 strategies:<br/>ResourcesLoader 30+, shim 28/29,<br/>unsupported below<br/><i>ResourceSwapStrategy.java</i>"]
        store --> assets["asset overlay<br/>DirectoryAssetsProvider, API 30+<br/><i>DirectoryAssetsProvider.java</i>"]
        keep["keep-alive service<br/>defeats the cached-app freezer<br/><i>QuickBuildKeepAliveService.java</i>"]
        conf["reload confirmation<br/>render-proof resumed /<br/>apply-time ack backgrounded<br/><i>QuickBuildRuntime.java</i>"]
    end
    client -- "reportReloaded / reportCrash" --> host
    user["user's classes, running process"] -. "loaded via" .-> cl
    classDef thisPrBox fill:#dbeafe,stroke:#93c5fd,color:#1e3a5f
    classDef inPr fill:#ffffff,stroke:#64748b,color:#000
    class rt thisPrBox
    class client,store,cl,res,assets,keep,conf inPr
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What to review

  • PayloadPersistence.java — all-or-nothing deploy; quarantines a payload that fails partway. Correctness-critical.
  • ResourceSwapStrategy.java — three swap paths by API level: 30+, 28/29, unsupported.
    • The 28/29 shim's success path is JVM-untestable [unverified on device].
  • DirectoryAssetsProvider.java — asset overlay; cannot hide deletions, and needs API 30+.
  • QuickBuildRuntime.java — reload confirmation: render-proof resumed, apply-time ack backgrounded. Skim QuickBuildClient.java, LoaderRouter.java, QuickBuildKeepAliveService.java.

How this PR Was Tested

  • 33 test files, heavy on persistence atomicity, quarantine, and the three resource strategies.
  • [verified 2026-08-21] At this cut: :quickbuild:runtime:test green (only protocol below it) — 33 suites, 220 tests per variant across all 6 variants (1,320 executions), 0 failures, 0 errors. Coverage 93.2% line / 95.8% branch.
  • End-to-end evidence: PR 11.

Coverage (JaCoCo at the stack tip, single run):

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com.itsaky.androidide.quickbuild.runtime 93.2% 95.8% 19 of 26 files; 7 device-only, excluded by design
NON-UI TOTAL 93.2% 95.8% 702 lines, 401 branches

The 7 exclusions are the device-only Android and binder glue — QuickBuildRuntime, QuickBuildClient, QuickBuildAppComponentFactory, PayloadStore, ResourceStore, StatusOverlay, ActivityTracker — each named with its reason in quickbuild/runtime/build.gradle.kts and covered by the device walks instead.

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📝 Walkthrough
  • Adds the Java-only :quickbuild:runtime AAR for applying code, resources, and assets without app reinstallation.
  • Persists payloads atomically and quarantines invalid or failed generations.
  • Routes class loading to payload classes before the installed application classes.
  • Supports resource swapping on API 28+ and asset overlays on API 30+.
  • Adds deploy-channel communication for reload confirmation and crash reporting.
  • Adds a keep-alive service and activity lifecycle tracking.
  • Prevents stale reload generations from receiving crash attribution.
  • Moves resource provider swaps and closure to the main thread to reduce resource inflation races.
  • Adds 33 test suites with 1,320 executions across six variants.
  • Reports 93.2% line coverage and 95.8% branch coverage.
  • Risk: API levels below 28 do not support resource payloads.
  • Risk: End-to-end validation is deferred to a later pull request.
  • Risk: The runtime uses hidden AssetManager.addAssetPath APIs on API 28/29.
  • Risk: Application, provider, and service lifecycle changes may require process restart.
  • Best-practice note: The custom JSON parser and reflection-based resource handling increase maintenance and compatibility risk.

Walkthrough

The PR adds the Quick Build runtime Android library. It defines Binder contracts, receives and persists generation-based payloads, swaps code and resources, reloads activities, reports failures, and adds extensive JVM tests.

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Quick Build runtime

Layer / File(s) Summary
Module contracts and parsers
quickbuild/runtime/build.gradle.kts, quickbuild/runtime/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml, quickbuild/runtime/src/main/aidl/*, quickbuild/runtime/src/main/java/.../BaselineGeneration.java, MiniJson.java, BuildStatus.java, DeployMetadata.java, OverlayState.java
Adds the Android library configuration, manifest, Binder interfaces, bounded JSON parsing, deployment metadata parsing, build-status parsing, and overlay state modeling.
Payload storage and generation control
quickbuild/runtime/src/main/java/.../AssetExtractor.java, PayloadPersistence.java, Generations.java, BootProbation.java, PersistedSelection.java, Streams.java, quickbuild/runtime/src/test/java/.../*Persistence*Test.java
Adds cumulative asset extraction, atomic payload persistence, fingerprint validation, quarantine and last-good fallback, generation ordering, boot probation, and bounded stream reads.
API-specific resource swapping
quickbuild/runtime/src/main/java/.../ResourceStore.java, LegacyResourceSwap.java, DirectoryAssetsProvider.java, ResourceSwapStrategy.java
Adds API 30+ ResourcesLoader swapping, API 28/29 asset-path swapping, directory-backed asset providers, cache cleanup, and SDK strategy selection.
Payload loading and component creation
quickbuild/runtime/src/main/java/.../PayloadStore.java, LoaderRouter.java, QuickBuildClassLoaders.java, QuickBuildAppComponentFactory.java
Adds baseline and persisted classloader selection, atomic generation application, rollback snapshots, and payload-first Android component instantiation with fallback error handling.
Runtime deployment and lifecycle orchestration
quickbuild/runtime/src/main/java/.../QuickBuildRuntime.java, QuickBuildClient.java, ActivityTracker.java, RestartHandoff.java, StatusOverlay.java, QuickBuildKeepAliveService.java, RuntimeLog.java
Adds Binder connection management, deployment handling, activity tracking, foreground reloads, restart handoffs, crash reporting, status overlays, keep-alive binding, and guarded logging. Tests cover lifecycle, persistence, parsing, loading, resources, restart synchronization, overlays, and offline API constraints.

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to 65ea4

This change enables live code, resource, and asset replacement, but unresolved issues can expose the keep-alive service to other apps, leave users with partially applied assets or failed resource swaps reported as successful, retry component construction incorrectly, or suppress fatal runtime errors. The PR is not merge-ready until the major correctness and security issues are addressed.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant QuickBuildService
  participant QuickBuildClient
  participant QuickBuildRuntime
  participant PayloadPersistence
  participant PayloadStore
  participant ActivityTracker

  QuickBuildService->>QuickBuildClient: deliver payload and status
  QuickBuildClient->>QuickBuildRuntime: forward deployment
  QuickBuildRuntime->>PayloadPersistence: persist generation payload
  QuickBuildRuntime->>PayloadStore: apply newer code payload
  PayloadStore-->>QuickBuildRuntime: active payload loader
  QuickBuildRuntime->>ActivityTracker: request foreground reload
  ActivityTracker-->>QuickBuildRuntime: top resumed activity
  QuickBuildRuntime->>QuickBuildService: report reload or crash status
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A rabbit packs payloads tight,
Through Binder tunnels, day and night.
New generations hop in line,
Resources bloom, and loaders shine.
If crashes thump, the guard takes note,
Then safe old builds keep afloat.

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quickbuild/runtime/src/main/java/com/itsaky/androidide/quickbuild/runtime/QuickBuildClient.java (1)

163-165: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Pass the throwable as the last log argument instead of concatenating it. These three sites build the message with + error, which logs only Throwable.toString() and discards the stack trace. The coding guidelines require the throwable as the last argument.

  • quickbuild/runtime/src/main/java/com/itsaky/androidide/quickbuild/runtime/QuickBuildClient.java#L163-L165: change to RuntimeLog.w("CoGo rejected connect(); continuing standalone", error) using the existing w(String, Throwable) overload.
  • quickbuild/runtime/src/main/java/com/itsaky/androidide/quickbuild/runtime/QuickBuildClient.java#L304-L305: change to RuntimeLog.d("unbindService failed", error) after you add the d(String, Throwable) overload proposed on RuntimeLog.java.
  • quickbuild/runtime/src/main/java/com/itsaky/androidide/quickbuild/runtime/PayloadStore.java#L60-L61: change to RuntimeLog.w("cmdline data-dir derivation failed", error) using the existing w(String, Throwable) overload.

As per coding guidelines: "pass the throwable as the last arg (don't "$e")".

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In
`@quickbuild/runtime/src/main/java/com/itsaky/androidide/quickbuild/runtime/QuickBuildClient.java`
around lines 163 - 165, Update the three logging sites to pass the throwable as
the final argument so stack traces are preserved: QuickBuildClient.java lines
163-165 should use the existing w(String, Throwable) overload,
QuickBuildClient.java lines 304-305 should use d(String, Throwable) after adding
that overload to RuntimeLog, and PayloadStore.java lines 60-61 should use the
existing w(String, Throwable) overload. Remove throwable concatenation from all
three messages.

Apply the same fix in
`@quickbuild/runtime/src/main/java/com/itsaky/androidide/quickbuild/runtime/RuntimeLog.java`
around lines 21 - 27.

Source: Coding guidelines

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Inline comments:
In `@quickbuild/runtime/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml`:
- Around line 30-32: Restrict QuickBuildKeepAliveService access so untrusted
installed apps cannot bind to it: define or reuse a signature-level permission
and declare it on the service, or enforce an equivalent CoGo caller check in
onBind(). Ensure only CoGo-authorized callers receive the binder while
preserving the service’s existing behavior for authorized callers.

In
`@quickbuild/runtime/src/main/java/com/itsaky/androidide/quickbuild/runtime/AssetExtractor.java`:
- Around line 102-108: The cumulative extraction flow in AssetExtractor must be
transactional: stage the merged assets in a separate temporary directory,
perform all ZIP entry extraction there, and replace the active current/provider
directory only after extract succeeds completely; leave the existing current
directory and baseline marker unchanged when any entry fails. Add a test
covering a valid entry followed by a failing entry and verify no partial changes
remain.

In
`@quickbuild/runtime/src/main/java/com/itsaky/androidide/quickbuild/runtime/LoaderRouter.java`:
- Around line 27-31: Update LoaderRouter to inspect the Class<?> returned by
payloadLoader.loadClass and return resolved.getClassLoader() for parent-resolved
classes, while preserving the defaultLoader fallback for ClassNotFoundException.
Add a LoaderRouterTest regression case using a parent-resolved component whose
constructor throws, verifying the factory does not retry it through the payload
loader.

In
`@quickbuild/runtime/src/main/java/com/itsaky/androidide/quickbuild/runtime/MiniJson.java`:
- Around line 280-286: Update readString to throw IllegalArgumentException when
a raw character in the U+0000–U+001F range is encountered before escape
processing; continue accepting these characters only when represented by valid
JSON escape sequences.

In
`@quickbuild/runtime/src/main/java/com/itsaky/androidide/quickbuild/runtime/QuickBuildAppComponentFactory.java`:
- Around line 98-105: Update all five component override catch blocks that
handle payload instantiation failures to rethrow fatal VirtualMachineError and
ThreadDeath instances before calling RuntimeLog.e or attempting default-loader
fallback. Preserve the existing logging and fallback behavior for recoverable
Throwable failures, including the existing rethrowPayloadFailure handling.

In
`@quickbuild/runtime/src/main/java/com/itsaky/androidide/quickbuild/runtime/QuickBuildClient.java`:
- Around line 143-148: Update the null-proxy branch in onServiceConnected to
call unbindQuietly() before scheduleRebind(), matching the other failure paths
and preventing stacked bindings for the same ServiceConnection.

In
`@quickbuild/runtime/src/main/java/com/itsaky/androidide/quickbuild/runtime/ResourceStore.java`:
- Around line 219-224: Update the provider swap logic in swapProvidersOnMain and
the related deploy path so candidate providers are assembled and passed to
setProviders before committing provider or assetsProvider state; only update
fields and close previous providers after installation succeeds. Propagate
installation failures through the main-thread completion result instead of
merely logging them, so deployment reports failure and later swaps cannot reuse
rejected providers.
- Around line 92-94: Update the extraction flow in ResourceStore so
AssetExtractor.extractCumulative writes to a new immutable staging directory
rather than the directory currently served by DirectoryAssetsProvider. Only call
refreshAssetsProvider after extraction completes successfully, passing the
staged directory, and retain the previous directory until its provider has been
detached.

In
`@quickbuild/runtime/src/main/java/com/itsaky/androidide/quickbuild/runtime/StatusOverlay.java`:
- Around line 121-125: Update the banner configuration in StatusOverlay so error
text can scroll vertically instead of being hard-capped by setMaxLines(6).
Remove the max-line restriction and enable scrolling on the banner while
preserving its existing padding and text sizing.

---

Nitpick comments:
In
`@quickbuild/runtime/src/main/java/com/itsaky/androidide/quickbuild/runtime/QuickBuildClient.java`:
- Around line 163-165: Update the three logging sites to pass the throwable as
the final argument so stack traces are preserved: QuickBuildClient.java lines
163-165 should use the existing w(String, Throwable) overload,
QuickBuildClient.java lines 304-305 should use d(String, Throwable) after adding
that overload to RuntimeLog, and PayloadStore.java lines 60-61 should use the
existing w(String, Throwable) overload. Remove throwable concatenation from all
three messages.

Apply the same fix in
`@quickbuild/runtime/src/main/java/com/itsaky/androidide/quickbuild/runtime/RuntimeLog.java`
around lines 21 - 27.
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🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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Restrict access to QuickBuildKeepAliveService.

onBind() returns its binder to every caller, and the manifest declares no permission. Any installed app can bind to the service and keep the proxy process out of the cached-app freezer. Authorize only CoGo with a permission or caller check.

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In `@quickbuild/runtime/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml` around lines 30 - 32,
Restrict QuickBuildKeepAliveService access so untrusted installed apps cannot
bind to it: define or reuse a signature-level permission and declare it on the
service, or enforce an equivalent CoGo caller check in onBind(). Ensure only
CoGo-authorized callers receive the binder while preserving the service’s
existing behavior for authorized callers.

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Not taking it. The exposure is real but bounded at keeping a developer's own proxy app unfrozen, and the returned object is a bare Binder with no transactions. Both remedies are unavailable: Binder.getCallingUid() inside onBind() returns this app's own uid, and a signature permission cannot work because CoGo is release-signed while the proxy app uses the on-device debug keystore. onUnbind returns false, so handing a caller null would poison the cached binding and break the keep-alive outright.

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payloadLoader.loadClass(className);
return payloadLoader;
} catch (ClassNotFoundException notInPayloadChain) {
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The Android AppComponentFactory and Java ClassLoader mechanisms work together to manage class loading and component instantiation through a standard delegation pattern. AppComponentFactory Implementation The AppComponentFactory is a system-level hook introduced to allow applications to intercept the instantiation of core components (Activity, Application, Service, Provider, Receiver) [1][2]. The instantiateActivity(ClassLoader, String, Intent) method has a default implementation that simply delegates the instantiation to the provided ClassLoader: public Activity instantiateActivity(ClassLoader cl, String className, Intent intent) throws InstantiationException, IllegalAccessException, ClassNotFoundException { return (Activity) cl.loadClass(className).newInstance; } By overriding this method in a custom AppComponentFactory, developers can inject custom logic—such as dependency injection or using a different ClassLoader—before the platform instantiates the component [1][2]. The associated instantiateClassLoader(ClassLoader, ApplicationInfo) method allows developers to replace or modify the ClassLoader hierarchy used by the entire application [3][4]. Java ClassLoader Parent Delegation The ClassLoader.loadClass(String name) method in Java follows a strict parent-delegation model [5][6][7]: 1. Check if the class has already been loaded by the current ClassLoader (via findLoadedClass) [5]. 2. Delegate the search to the parent ClassLoader [5][6]. 3. If the parent cannot find the class, the current ClassLoader invokes its own findClass(String name) method to locate and define the class [5]. This architecture ensures that core platform classes (like those loaded by the bootstrap or system class loaders) take precedence, maintaining security and class identity consistency within the JVM [6]. In Android, the ClassLoader passed to AppComponentFactory methods is typically a PathClassLoader, which is configured by the system to load the application's base or split APKs [3][2]. When loadClass is called, it propagates this request up to the system/bootstrap loaders according to the delegation rules [5][6]. Developers who require non-delegating (child-first) behavior must override loadClass in a custom ClassLoader subclass, as standard Android ClassLoaders adhere to the platform's delegation semantics by default [6][8].

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Return the default loader for parent-resolved classes.

PayloadStore creates the payload loader with the APK loader as its parent. When payloadLoader.loadClass(className) resolves an APK class, resolved.getClassLoader() is the default loader. Current code still selects payloadLoader, so a constructor failure can cause the factory to invoke the same constructor again through the default loader. Select the loader from the resolved class and update LoaderRouterTest with a parent-resolved throwing component regression case.

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In
`@quickbuild/runtime/src/main/java/com/itsaky/androidide/quickbuild/runtime/LoaderRouter.java`
around lines 27 - 31, Update LoaderRouter to inspect the Class<?> returned by
payloadLoader.loadClass and return resolved.getClassLoader() for parent-resolved
classes, while preserving the defaultLoader fallback for ClassNotFoundException.
Add a LoaderRouterTest regression case using a parent-resolved component whose
constructor throws, verifying the factory does not retry it through the payload
loader.

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Not taking it. PayloadStore builds the payload loader parent-first, so for an APK-resident class both loaders return the identical Class object, and pick's result only ever feeds super.instantiate*. The double construction comes from the factory's unconditional retry, not from the router, and the change would contradict the invariant LoaderRouterTest.payloadWinsWhenBothLoadersServeTheClass pins.

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char c = read();
if (c == '"') {
return sb.toString();
}
if (c != '\\') {
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Reject raw control characters in JSON strings.

readString accepts unescaped control characters, including raw newlines. This violates the parser contract that malformed JSON throws IllegalArgumentException. Reject characters from U+0000 through U+001F unless they arrive through a valid escape sequence.

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In
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around lines 280 - 286, Update readString to throw IllegalArgumentException when
a raw character in the U+0000–U+001F range is encountered before escape
processing; continue accepting these characters only when represented by valid
JSON escape sequences.

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Not taking it. There is no untrusted producer: the three call sites read metadata this class wrote to app-private storage, or JSON that CoGo builds with Gson, which already escapes U+0000-U+001F on the way out. Adding rejection only creates a new way for a future payload to be refused at the proxy app.

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Most of the new files in this PR are Java files. Is there a reason they are not Kotlin files?

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Review at effort high. Read every main-source hunk in the new :quickbuild:runtime module (30 files); 10 findings inline, each verified against the source at 65ea465.

Two worth resolving before merge:

  • PayloadPersistence.markGood lacks the quarantine guard its counterpart quarantine() has, so a crash racing the mark-good thread ends with the whole persisted store deleted on the next boot -- the regression good.json was added to prevent.
  • QuickBuildClient's RemoteException branch rebinds without unbinding, so the framework silently drops the reconnect and the client is stuck with a null host.

The rest are one correctness gap each in the resource-swap and ack paths, plus three nits.

Checked and clean: zip-traversal guards in AssetExtractor.extract/extractCumulative; MiniJson's depth cap and literal-shape checks (no path reaches charAt out of bounds); Generations/BootProbation/PersistedSelection gate arithmetic; RestartHandoff's two-phase wait and deadline math; rethrowPayloadFailure's addSuppressed self-reference guard; collectOrphans' referenced-set construction; and the AIDL -- no duplication against :quickbuild:protocol, and the append-only/oneway versioning contract holds.

The KDoc density throughout made the invariants easy to check against, and in two places (markLiveGenerationGood, swapProvidersOnMain) the docs are what surfaced the finding.

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// Fetched again rather than captured: this runs while the banner is
// attached, so it is the live observer the listener sits on.
banner.getViewTreeObserver().removeOnGlobalLayoutListener(this);

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SHOULD FIX The deferred inset listener is never removed once the banner detaches, so it stays registered on the window for the rest of the process.

banner.getViewTreeObserver() returns mAttachInfo.mTreeObserver -- the window-wide observer -- only while the banner is attached. Once removeView has run, mAttachInfo is null and the accessor hands back the view's private mFloatingTreeObserver instead, which never held this listener; ViewTreeObserver.removeOnGlobalLayoutListener on it is a silent no-op. So the GIVE_UP branch cannot unregister itself, which is the one branch that exists for a detached banner.

Sequence: CoGo reports build_failed on the first render after a config-change recreate, getRootWindowInsets() is still null, so insetAction returns WAIT and a listener goes on. The next build succeeds, render gets HIDDEN and removes the banner. From then on every global layout of that window runs onGlobalLayout, computes GIVE_UP, tries to remove from the floating observer, fails, and runs again on the next layout -- forever, holding the detached TextView and the decor alive.

The KDoc's justification ("this runs while the banner is attached, so it is the live observer the listener sits on") holds for APPLY and is exactly wrong for GIVE_UP. Capturing the observer the listener was added to, or removing via decor.getViewTreeObserver(), fixes both branches. The same accessor compounds the existing "one extra no-op listener per render before a layout" the method already accepts.

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Confirmed. The GIVE_UP branch is exactly the case where getViewTreeObserver() returns the floating observer, so the removal is a no-op and the listener leaks with the decor. Fixing in this stack: capture the observer at add time and remove from it, with a fallback through the decor's observer, and correcting the comment.

StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(
"Build failed - app is running the last working version");
if (detail != null) {
sb.append('\n').append(detail);

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SHOULD FIX The compile-error banner still hard-truncates unbounded text with nowhere to scroll -- the residual half of the setMaxLines finding.

The crash path was fixed by dropping the stack summary, but BUILD_FAILED is the state this banner exists for and its detail has no length cap anywhere in the runtime: BuildStatus.parse copies message through verbatim (asString, no clamp), and CrashSummary's own KDoc says so ("nothing here caps its length, so a long one still ellipsizes"). Against setMaxLines(CrashSummary.MAX_BANNER_LINES) plus TruncateAt.END and no movement method, the overflow is unreachable.

Concretely: the headline is 52 characters, so at the 25-32 chars-per-line measured at 2x font scale it costs 2-3 of the 6 lines. A javac/kotlinc first line is routinely longer than the 3-4 lines that remain (.../app/src/main/java/com/example/Foo.java:42: error: cannot find symbol), and " (+N more)" is appended after it -- so the part naming the error is what gets ellipsized, and the user watching the proxy app has no way to reach it. That is the repo rule this PR already applied to the crash banner ("reserve maxLines/ellipsize for text that is genuinely disposable"); a compile error is not disposable.

Cheapest fix consistent with the choice already made: give BUILD_FAILED the same treatment as CRASHED -- clamp detail to what the measured budget holds and let FULL_OUTPUT_POINTER carry the reader to Build Output for the rest.

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Confirmed. BUILD_FAILED is the one state with unbounded detail and it got none of the treatment the crash banner did. Fixing in this stack: clamp the detail to the measured banner budget and point at Build Output for the rest, same shape as CRASHED.

* when {@code dir} cannot be created, the stream exceeds the payload cap, or the write fails
*/
static File writeResourceApk(InputStream apk, File dir, long generation) throws IOException {
byte[] bytes = Streams.readFully(apk);

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SHOULD FIX The API 28/29 path still buffers the whole relinked apk in the heap -- the sibling the streaming conversion missed.

682ab487 converted the resource and asset payloads to streams precisely so "a cold deploy held two payload-sized arrays live for no benefit on the devices least able to spare them", and Streams.copy was added for it. This call site was not converted: Streams.readFully(apk) passes no size hint, so the ByteArrayOutputStream doubles from 16 KB up to the payload size and toByteArray() then copies it -- about twice the apk live at the peak, which is the exact arithmetic Streams.MAX_PAYLOAD_BYTES' KDoc uses to justify dropping the cap to 64 MB.

And it lands on the wrong devices: this method is only reached on API 28/29, i.e. the oldest and smallest-heap phones in scope, where the API 30+ path (which now streams) never runs. A 20 MB relinked apk peaks around 40 MB here for no reason -- the bytes go straight to a FileOutputStream and are never looked at.

Streams.copy(apk, out, Streams.MAX_PAYLOAD_BYTES) after the mkdirs, with the cap check moved inside the copy, keeps the same contract (including the "stream exceeds the payload cap" IOException) with a 16 KB peak.

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Confirmed, and you are right that it lands exactly on the small-heap devices. Fixing in this stack: mkdirs first, then Streams.copy straight into the file with the cap enforced in the copy, keeping the same IOException contract.

*/
synchronized Persisted persist(long generation, String fingerprint, byte[] dex, InputStream arsc,
InputStream assetsZip) throws IOException {
if (generation < highestPersistedGeneration) {

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SHOULD FIX The overtake guard is per-process and never lowers, so a host counter restart against a live process silences every later deploy -- with no report, by design.

The KDoc argues the per-process mark is safe because "a restarted host counter always arrives in a process that has published nothing yet - the store it finds was written by an earlier session or install". Nothing in this file enforces that, and the very next block (line 383-388) is written for the opposite case: it handles a good.json at or above the incoming generation because "the host's generation counter restarted (its project state was wiped while the app stayed installed)". If the app can stay installed across a counter restart, the question is only whether its process survives -- and nothing here or in PayloadStore resets highestPersistedGeneration; attachPersistence only constructs a store when persistence == null.

If that process does survive, the failure mode is the worst-shaped one available: persist(1, ...) throws StalePayloadException, handlePayload catches it and returns deliberately unreported ("must stay silent"), so no reportReloaded, no reportCrash, no banner. Generations 2, 3, 4 are all below 10 too, so every save for the rest of the process lifetime is dropped with the screen showing stale code and the user given nothing to act on.

Either verify and state why the process cannot outlive a counter restart (a proxy-app reinstall in that path would do it, and belongs in this KDoc), or make the guard distinguish the two: an incoming generation below the mark and below what meta.json on disk already claims is an overtake; one below the mark but not present on disk is a restarted sequence and must be adopted.

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Confirmed: nothing enforces the KDoc's premise, and the next block is indeed written for the opposite case. We are deferring this one to a follow-up ticket rather than patching it here: the store cannot locally tell an overtake from a restarted sequence (disk meta is high in both), so the honest fix is either a guarantee from the provisioning path that a counter restart always reinstalls the proxy app (then stated in this KDoc), or a restart signal carried from the host. We will make that call outside this stack.

if (attachedAppResources || appContext == null) {
return;
}
attachedAppResources = true;

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NITPICK The latch is set before the attach is attempted, so a single failed addLoaders permanently reinstates the split-brain this method was added to fix.

attachLoaderTo swallows every Throwable (by design -- "already attached, or an unusual Resources implementation"), so attachedAppResources records "done" whether or not the loader reached the application Resources. There is no other caller and no retry: from then on a Service, ContentProvider or notification builder keeps resolving the baseline table while the activity on screen resolves the new one -- exactly the disagreement the method exists to prevent.

Setting the flag only after attachLoaderTo reports success (return a boolean from it, or inline the addLoaders call here) costs nothing: both callers already hold the monitor and run once per swap, so a retry is bounded by the number of deploys.

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Confirmed, the latch commits before the attach can fail. Fixing in this stack: attach reports success and the flag is set only then; retries stay bounded by deploys as you note.

} catch (RuntimeException error) {
// SecurityException (and any other binder-propagatable runtime exception) from
// the host: expected when CoGo has no live session. Continue standalone.
RuntimeLog.w("CoGo rejected connect(); continuing standalone: " + error);

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NITPICK Still concatenating the throwable here, so the stack is lost on the one connect failure that carries useful detail.

The w(String, Throwable) overload exists and the three d sites were converted in this same round; this one was left. + error yields toString() alone, which names the exception class and message and nothing about where the host threw -- and this branch catches whatever CoGo's connect() propagated across the binder, where the frames are the only thing that distinguishes "no live session" from a genuine host bug.

RuntimeLog.w("CoGo rejected connect(); continuing standalone", error);

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Confirmed, this was the one site the conversion missed. Fixing in this stack with the two-arg overload.

// The swap lands after this method returns, so without this the deploy
// acks a reload the app is not showing: CoGo reports success while the
// screen still renders the previous table, and no banner fires.
failReload(generation, rollback, error);

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NITPICK This listener runs on the main thread, so the failure path it feeds does fsynced disk I/O there.

reportSwapFailure is invoked from inside swapProvidersOnMain's guard, which by construction runs on the main looper. failReload then calls quarantine(generation), and PayloadPersistence.quarantine does mkdirs + writeAtomic, which is a write plus getFD().sync() plus a rename -- a blocking fsync on the frame path, against the project's no-main-thread-I/O rule.

reloadOnMain's own catch already had this shape, so it is not new, but this callback adds a second main-thread entry into it and is the one that fires on an ordinary resource-swap rejection rather than on a thrown recreate. Posting the failReload body to a background thread (the crash report is oneway and the banner render already re-posts to main) keeps the fsync off the looper.

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Confirmed: the callback runs on main and quarantine fsyncs. Deferring to a follow-up together with reloadOnMain's identical catch: moving failReload off-main needs a pass over the pending-reload fields' thread confinement, and doing one entry point here would leave the other and split the invariant.

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Reversing the deferral — this one is in-stack now. We post the failReload body to a background thread, the same way markGood already runs its store write off the looper. Nothing in the body needs to stay on main: the pending-reload generation is volatile, the store calls are synchronized, the crash report is oneway, and the banner re-posts to main itself. reloadOnMain's catch goes through the same failReload, so both paths are covered by the one change, with a test pinning the dispatch off the caller's thread.

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Re-review at 0210cc04b, checking the previous rounds' findings against the source rather than the replies.

All 10 of my earlier findings verified fixed -- markGood's quarantine guard, both QuickBuildClient rebind branches, the application-Resources loader attach, the SwapFailure route back into the deploy chain, the persist overtake refusal, the markGood retry latch, the no-activity ack, the 64 MB cap with a size hint, the cached canonical root, and the crash banner's copy. Those threads plus the 6 CodeRabbit findings the commits actually addressed are resolved. The 3 CodeRabbit threads that were declined rather than fixed (keep-alive service exposure, LoaderRouter parent-resolved pick, MiniJson control characters) are left open for the reviewer who filed them -- the rationale on each reads sound to me, and LoaderRouter's premise is wrong on parent-first delegation.

7 new findings inline, 4 SHOULD FIX and 3 NITPICK. The two worth acting on before merge:

  • StatusOverlay's deferred inset listener cannot unregister itself once the banner detaches -- getViewTreeObserver() hands back the floating observer on a detached view, so the GIVE_UP branch is a no-op and the listener runs on every window layout for the rest of the process.
  • The BUILD_FAILED banner still hard-truncates unbounded CoGo diagnostic text with nowhere to scroll. The crash half of that finding was fixed; this is the half that fires on every compile error.

The other two: LegacyResourceSwap.writeResourceApk is the sibling the streaming conversion missed, and it lands on the API 28/29 devices the 64 MB arithmetic was recalculated for; and the overtake guard's per-process mark rests on a KDoc premise nothing enforces, with a silent-forever failure mode if it is wrong.

Checked and clean this round: the markGood/quarantine mutual exclusion under the shared monitor; persist's publish-last ordering and orphan collection with good.json deleted first; the fd ownership across all of handlePayload's exits, including the StalePayloadException and restart returns; AssetExtractor's merge.pending recovery and traversal guards; DirectoryAssetsProvider sizing from the already-open descriptor; both un-commit blocks in ResourceStore; rethrowIfFatal as the first statement of all five factory catches; and the disconnect removal, which was the last method in IQuickBuildHost so no transaction code shifts.

fryanpan added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 1, 2026
…D clamp, streamed apk write, resource-attach latch, log overload

Akash's 08-31 review of #1716, items 1/2/3/5/6 (4 and 7 deferred to
followup tickets per the triage):

- StatusOverlay: capture the ViewTreeObserver at add time; on GIVE_UP the
  banner is detached and a re-fetch returns a floating observer, making the
  removal a silent no-op. isAlive() guard with a decor-observer fallback.
- OverlayState/CrashSummary: BUILD_FAILED detail clamped to a one-line
  budget (BUILD_FAILED_DETAIL_CHARS) and the Build Output pointer appended,
  same shape as CRASHED; budget arithmetic documented from both ends.
- LegacyResourceSwap: stream the resource apk to disk instead of buffering
  it in heap (small-heap API 28/29 devices); partial file deleted on a
  failed copy so the throw-means-nothing-written contract holds.
- ResourceStore: attachedAppResources latched only when the attach
  succeeded, so a swallowed failure is retried on the next deploy.
- QuickBuildClient: two-arg RuntimeLog.w keeps the stack trace.

Tests: clamp test verified red before the fix; partial-file-delete test
added; three edge tests updated for the pointer line. 255 green.

Also: plain-language pass over the comments added by these fixes

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01STCsdMzx9daNBcqMN424Ci
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…rces and assets into the running process

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Kj9YeCDHGp9DU8LPtfWJ7W
- Stale pendingReloadGeneration mis-blaming later crashes: the backgrounded
  apply now assigns the pending slot too (Generations.pendingAfterApply), and
  BootProbation.generationToBlame refuses a pending value the store has moved
  past. Covered by BootProbationTest.aPendingReloadTheStoreMovedPastIsNotBlamed
  (fails without the fix) and GenerationsTest.aBackgroundedApplyClearsThePendingSlotItAlreadyAcked.
- failReload swallowing every pre-apply failure: the newer-generation guard is
  now a three-way Generations.onReloadFailure — never-applied failures skip the
  rollback/quarantine but still reportCrash + banner; only a failure superseded
  by a newer live generation stays silent. Covered by
  GenerationsTest.aFailureTheStoreNeverAdoptedStillReports.
- Binder-thread setProviders + immediate provider close racing main-thread
  inflation: ResourceStore now performs the field swap, setProviders and the
  close of the replaced provider on the main thread (inline when already there,
  so the boot restore path still lands before first inflation; Looper FIFO keeps
  a posted swap ahead of the posted recreate). Pure threading with no JVM seam —
  justified in swapProvidersOnMain's doc; device-covered.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Kj9YeCDHGp9DU8LPtfWJ7W
- F1716-2 heal a half-finished asset merge on the next run
- F1716-5 stop answering a VirtualMachineError with another allocation
- F1716-7 take the asset length from the descriptor already open
- F1716-8 un-commit a resource provider swap that failed to install

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FstXxJ5cwWPcvmhZ9vJgJ7
Fixes for every finding on the runtime module, plus two changes that came out of
reviewing them.

Crash banner. The copy said "New code crashed", which named the one event this
banner cannot observe: the CRASHED state is set only from failReload, so it is
always the reload machinery that failed, never the user's own code. It also
carried a stack summary it had no room for. It now reads

  Live reload crashed. App is on the last working version.
  For more info, see Build Output in Code on the Go.

and points at the pane where the full text already goes unchanged. At the
narrowest width measured on an A56 at 2x font scale that is five rendered lines,
four from 28 characters up; MAX_BANNER_LINES stays at 6, one line of slack,
because the line a tighter cap drops is the tail of the pointer - which leaves
the reader told to look somewhere without the name of the place.

Crash report. It walks up to three causes and prints each one's frames, not just
its toString. An Android lifecycle crash always arrives wrapped, so the top
frames are ActivityThread's every time and the line naming the developer's bug
sits in the cause; reporting the message alone named the exception without ever
placing it.

markGood retry. lastMarkedGoodGeneration was set before the write was attempted,
so a failed markGood was never retried and its latch blocked every later one for
the process lifetime, and the KDoc's justification was inverted. Clearing the
latch on a bare false is not safe either - markGood answers several situations
with one false, and persist runs before apply, so meta.json is briefly ahead of
the live generation on every deploy. markGoodCanSucceed separates a failed write
from a store that moved on, and only the failed write clears.

Payload overtake. onPayload is oneway, so a slower older deploy can be overtaken
while it reads its payload and then publish itself over the newer one, leaving
disk a generation behind the running process until the next cold boot adopts it.
PayloadStore.apply already refuses a generation that is not strictly newer, so
this could never reach the screen - only disk. PayloadPersistence now keeps the
highest generation this process has published and refuses anything older,
throwing StalePayloadException so the deploy path can tell a lost race from a
broken store and stay silent about it. The bar rises only after the publishing
rename, so a persist that threw part-way does not block its own retry.

That guard also separates the two cases a generation number alone conflates. A
restarted host counter - the project's state dir wiped while the app stays
installed - always arrives in a process that has published nothing, so the mark
is zero and the low generation is adopted as before. Both counter-restart tests
now build a fresh store object over the same directory, which is the only shape
that case has on a device.

Payload memory. The resource apk and the assets zip were read whole into memory
and written straight back out to files that are reopened as files afterwards, so
a cold deploy held two payload-sized arrays live for no benefit on the devices
least able to spare them. persist now takes both as streams and copies them
through a 16 KB buffer into the same temp-then-fsync-then-rename write. Only the
dex stays a byte array, because InMemoryDexClassLoader needs one. The 64 MB cap
is unchanged and now guards the streaming path; the parameter types are what
keep it that way.

Also from Akash: the manifest-merger comment, the KDoc corrections, and the test
helper that divided length by width - it modelled a renderer that breaks
mid-word, so it read the banner's six real lines as five and could not have
caught the overflow it existed for. It wraps on words now, and was watched
failing at the old cap before the cap moved.

Both new gates were watched red first: the payload cap with its check stubbed
out, the overtake refusal with its condition forced false. Only the intended
test failed each time. 248 tests green.

Banner inset. Photographing the new banner at 2x font scale showed it drawing
over the status bar: getRootWindowInsets() comes back null on the first render
after a config-change recreate, and the overlay took that as a 0 inset. A null
read now means "not measured yet" - the margin is left alone and re-read after
the next layout, once, by a listener that removes itself. The decision is a pure
static so it can be unit-tested; the deferred re-read firing is checked on a
device (A56: banner flush below the 101 px bar at 1.0 and 2.0).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Xsc7AMGBVyEMfrwpZX87iC
The runtime only ever disconnected by process death, which
ProxyAppConnections.onDisconnected already handles. Asked for in review on #1718.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Xsc7AMGBVyEMfrwpZX87iC
…D clamp, streamed apk write, resource-attach latch, log overload

Akash's 08-31 review of #1716, items 1/2/3/5/6 (4 and 7 deferred to
followup tickets per the triage):

- StatusOverlay: capture the ViewTreeObserver at add time; on GIVE_UP the
  banner is detached and a re-fetch returns a floating observer, making the
  removal a silent no-op. isAlive() guard with a decor-observer fallback.
- OverlayState/CrashSummary: BUILD_FAILED detail clamped to a one-line
  budget (BUILD_FAILED_DETAIL_CHARS) and the Build Output pointer appended,
  same shape as CRASHED; budget arithmetic documented from both ends.
- LegacyResourceSwap: stream the resource apk to disk instead of buffering
  it in heap (small-heap API 28/29 devices); partial file deleted on a
  failed copy so the throw-means-nothing-written contract holds.
- ResourceStore: attachedAppResources latched only when the attach
  succeeded, so a swallowed failure is retried on the next deploy.
- QuickBuildClient: two-arg RuntimeLog.w keeps the stack trace.

Tests: clamp test verified red before the fix; partial-file-delete test
added; three edge tests updated for the pointer line. 255 green.

Also: plain-language pass over the comments added by these fixes

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01STCsdMzx9daNBcqMN424Ci
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