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ADFA-4930

PR 3 of 4 in the stack from docs/superpowers/plans/2026-10-14-adfa-4930-build-output-off-fuse.md, based on #2150, which is based on #2149. Merge those first; this PR's diff is seven commits: lifecycle, Export APK, a docs-only plan update, the review fixes, two later review fixes (the sweep, and the marker's spelling), and deleting trees without following symlinks (9372573, Hal Eisen's review), plus merges bringing in #2149's included-build fix, stage, and #2149's experiment gate. Later in the stack, #2155 turns Export APK into Export (App Bundles and plugins too).

Trees are deleted without following symlinks (9372573). Deleting a project's tree and the startup sweep used File.deleteRecursively, which follows a symlink to a directory and deletes what it points to; a build can leave such a link in its output. deleteTree now uses deleteWithoutFollowingLinks, and the sweep lists trees with NOFOLLOW_LINKS, so a link in gradle-build/ is never treated as a tree. Each half has a test that fails without it.

Why. With "Relocate build output" on (#2149), build output lives in app storage. Deleting a project, in the IDE or outside it, left that output behind. The built APK was also out of reach: a file manager cannot see app storage.

What it does

• Delete with the project. Both deletion paths, Recents' delete (deleteProject → deleteProjectByLocation) and the Delete projects screen (deleteSelectedProjects), delete the project's trees in RecentProjectsViewModel, on IO.
• Startup sweep. CredentialProtectedApplicationLoader sweeps on IO, deleting trees whose project no longer exists, including projects deleted with their folder. With the parent missing too, the nearest folder that exists decides: a readable folder below /storage means the folders were deleted, while /storage itself means the volume is not mounted, so its trees stay. A tree without a project-path marker is left alone.
• Trees are matched by their marker rather than by key: deletion uses the canonical path and builds use projectDirPath, so a symlinked spelling of the same project (/sdcard against /storage/emulated/0) would key differently. The marker holds the canonical path, so a project opened through a symlinked root still matches once Recents deletes its real folder.
• Export APK. A toolbar action after Launch app, shown only while relocation is available (experiments). It resolves the selected variant's APK from the synced model and offers Share (the share sheet, through the existing FileProvider) or Copy to Download (<project>-<variant>.apk, with the module added when there are several app modules, and numbered when the name is taken, so an earlier export is never overwritten). The copy goes to a temporary name and is renamed into place. Export refuses Quick Build's proxy APK, which Quick Build's build writes to the same path, and refuses while a build runs. An unreadable APK listing reads as "no APK yet". Long-press help uses TooltipTag.EDITOR_TOOLBAR_EXPORT_APK (project.export.apk). Its text, and the switch's, are in a SQL script for documentation.db in OfflineDocumentationTools, not in this repo.

Verified

• Unit tests: BuildOutputLocationTest 21/21 (7 new for deletion and the sweep), ApkExportTest 11/11, ExternalFileInstallViewModelTest 18/18 (it now shares the file-name rule). Each regression test fails against the code it guards: key-based deletion (0 trees found), deletion without marker-last ordering (marker lost), an unguarded listing read (JsonSyntaxException), no proxy check (proxy exported), and a direct copy (partial app-debug.apk left), a sweep with only the parent rule (0 trees swept, expected 2), and a marker holding the symlink (0 trees deleted, expected 1).
• On a Galaxy Note20 Ultra (Android 13), debug APK at aa9c463 (before the review fixes), experiments on:
  • Export APK appears in the toolbar after Launch app.
  • Copy to Download wrote My Application-debug.apk, byte-identical to the built APK, and a second copy became My Application-debug (2).apk.
  • Share opened Android's chooser.
  • At the phone's usual font scale (1.3) and at 2.0 the dialog's title, both choices and Cancel are fully readable.
• Delete-with-project, on a Pixel 6 Pro (Android 17) at 9a52063: with relocation on, deleting BigBench through "Delete a saved project" removed its 43 MB tree with the project, and the log shows Deleted 1 build output tree(s) of /storage/emulated/0/CodeOnTheGoProjects/BigBench.
• The sweep fix (34b6603), on the Pixel 6 Pro with a debug APK of the stack's top rebased onto it, against hand-made trees: a cold start logged Swept 2 orphaned build output tree(s). It deleted the trees of two projects whose folders were deleted, one marker spelled /sdcard/..., and kept a tree on an unmounted volume (/storage/1234-ABCD) and a live project's.
• On an itel A667L (Android 14 Go, 32-bit, 1.9 GB RAM) at 9a52063, against trees made by hand, because a sync could not finish there (below):
  • Delete-with-project removed both projects' trees, including one whose marker spells the path /sdcard/....
  • The startup sweep logged Swept 1 orphaned build output tree(s). It deleted only the tree of a missing project, and kept a markerless tree and the trees of existing projects.
• Export APK on the Note20 at 9a52063, with relocation on, so the APK came from the tree:
  • Right after Quick Build's prebuild, Export refused with "The latest APK is Quick Build's live-reload app...".
  • After a normal Run it offered Share and Copy to Download. The copy was byte-identical to the built APK (SHA-256 772d1e21...), with no .partial file left.
  • A tap during Quick Build's prebuild showed "A build is running...".
  • During a normal build the icon was dimmed and a tap did nothing.
  • The dialog was fully readable at font scale 1.0 and 2.0.
• On the itel, CoGo's debug build was killed for memory twice during a first project sync (relocation off, so unrelated to this stack; ADFA-6569), so the Export checks ran on the Note20 instead.
• Sites checked: the only callers that delete project files are the two ViewModel functions above. RecentProjectsAdapter deletes again after the ViewModel has run, and handleMissingProjectDirectory only removes the Recents row; the sweep covers projects that vanish that way.

Pre-existing, not from this PR: at font scale 2.0 a flash message long enough to wrap to three lines starts under the status bar. The Export APK success message ("Saved to Download as ...") is one; this is the shared Flashbar component.

Not in this PR. Turning relocation on by default, and the ARCHITECTURE.md storage section, are PR 4.

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Review of #2151 at d23ff48cd (pr-review, high).

Stack: layer 3 of 3, and the tip: #2149 (base stage), then #2150, then #2151. Claims were verified at the tip, d23ff48cd, which is also this PR's head.

IMPORTANT

• ExportApkAction.kt:69 - an exception from the listing lookup crashes the IDE
• ExportApkAction.kt:72 - after Quick Build's prebuild, Export hands over the proxy app
• ApkExport.kt:25 - a failed copy leaves a truncated APK in Download

MINOR

• ExportApkAction.kt:56 - enabled during builds, can copy a half-written APK (PLAUSIBLE)
• ExportApkAction.kt:68 - the export name ignores the module
• BuildOutputLocation.kt:123 - the sweep keeps trees of projects deleted with their parent folder
• BuildOutputLocation.kt:132 - a part-failed delete can strand a tree without its marker (unreachable today)

NITPICK - 1 inline, not listed

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Checked and passing

• Experiments gate (REVIEW.md section 12): Export APK registers only when BuildOutputLocation.isAvailable().
• Long-press help (section 9): retrieveTooltipTag returns EDITOR_TOOLBAR_EXPORT_APK. The tooltip text is in the SQL script attached to ADFA-4930.
• Accessibility (section 8): there is no cd_toolbar_* entry for the action, but getToolbarContentDescription falls back to its label, "Export APK". A device UI dump showed that content description.
• Strings (section 7): all six new strings are in :resources.
• Threading (section 3): the listing read and the copy run on IO, and the dialog is shown on Main. The startup sweep and the deletion hook run on IO.
• Deletion paths: the only two functions that delete project files, deleteProjectByLocation and deleteSelectedProjects, both call the hook, and only after a successful delete.
• Tests: the removal and sweep logic and ApkExport are unit-tested. Removal by key fails the symlinked-spelling test.

Not posted

• Already disclosed in the PR body: the unchecked 1.0 font scale, the missing device check of deletion and the sweep, and the 2.0 Flashbar overlap (ADFA-6562).
• One efficiency lead dropped: bulk deletion lists every tree once per deleted project, O(projects x trees), which is harmless at real counts.

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📝 Summary

• Added an Export APK toolbar action when build-output relocation is available. Users can share a selected variant’s APK or copy it to Download/.
• The action blocks exports during builds, rejects Quick Build proxy APKs, sanitizes filenames, and avoids overwriting existing exports.
• Project deletion removes matching relocated build-output trees. Startup cleanup sweeps orphaned trees and avoids following symlinks. Canonical project paths support projects opened through symlinked roots.
• Added tests for build-output cleanup and APK export. The author reports 21/21 BuildOutputLocationTest, 11/11 ApkExportTest, and 18/18 ExternalFileInstallViewModelTest passing. The supplied source confirms test declarations, but does not establish that tests ran.
• Risk: The sweep preserves trees without project-path markers and trees when volume or project status is uncertain. These trees can remain and may require manual cleanup.
• Device-check limitation: The author reports that the itel A667L debug build was killed for memory during initial project sync. Export checks therefore ran on the Note20. The author also reports a pre-existing Flashbar overlap at font scale 2.0.

The change adds cleanup for build-output trees linked to deleted projects and an orphan sweep during application initialization. It also adds an editor toolbar action to share or copy a built APK, with APK resolution and collision-safe file naming.

Changes: Build Output Cleanup

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Canonical matching and tree cleanup app/src/main/java/com/itsaky/androidide/services/builder/BuildOutputLocation.kt, app/src/main/java/com/itsaky/androidide/services/builder/DeleteWithoutFollowingLinks.kt, app/src/test/java/com/itsaky/androidide/services/builder/BuildOutputLocationTest.kt	Build-output trees use canonical project paths for matching. The sweep removes trees only for projects determined to be gone. Deletion does not follow symbolic links and retains the marker when cleanup is incomplete. Tests cover matching, sweep conditions, and incomplete deletion.
Deletion and startup cleanup hooks app/src/main/java/com/itsaky/androidide/viewmodel/RecentProjectsViewModel.kt, app/src/main/java/com/itsaky/androidide/app/CredentialProtectedApplicationLoader.kt, docs/superpowers/plans/...	Successful project deletions remove matching build-output trees. Application initialization sweeps orphaned trees. The plan describes these cleanup conditions.

APK Export

Layer / File(s)	Summary
APK resolution and safe copy app/src/main/java/com/itsaky/androidide/utils/ApkExport.kt, app/src/main/java/com/itsaky/androidide/utils/FileNames.kt, app/src/main/java/com/itsaky/androidide/viewmodels/ExternalFileInstallViewModel.kt, app/src/test/java/com/itsaky/androidide/utils/ApkExportTest.kt	ApkExport handles missing or malformed APK listings and detects Quick Build proxy APKs. It copies APKs using sanitized names and numbers filename collisions. Tests cover resolution and copy outcomes. ExternalFileInstallViewModel uses the shared filename sanitizer.
Toolbar export flow app/src/main/java/com/itsaky/androidide/actions/etc/ExportApkAction.kt, app/src/main/java/com/itsaky/androidide/utils/EditorActivityActions.kt, idetooltips/src/main/java/com/itsaky/androidide/idetooltips/TooltipTag.kt, resources/src/main/res/values/strings.xml, docs/superpowers/plans/...	The editor registers the action when build-output relocation is available. The action checks build state, prompts for an app module, resolves its variant, and offers sharing or copying to Downloads.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  actor User
  participant EditorActivityActions
  participant ExportApkAction
  participant ApkExport
  participant AssembleOutputListing
  participant QuickBuildReport
  participant Downloads
  EditorActivityActions->>ExportApkAction: Register when build-output location is available
  User->>ExportApkAction: Select app module and export option
  ExportApkAction->>ApkExport: Resolve APK for selected variant
  ApkExport->>AssembleOutputListing: Read variant APK listing
  ApkExport->>QuickBuildReport: Check proxy path and modification time
  ApkExport-->>ExportApkAction: Return APK or resolution result
  ExportApkAction->>Downloads: Copy APK with collision-safe filename

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Possibly related PRs

• appdevforall/CodeOnTheGo#2149: Introduces BuildOutputLocation and its project-path marker, which this change extends with canonical matching and cleanup.

Suggested reviewers: daniel-adfa, jatezzz

Merge Risk: Low · up to 88c54

Deletion can leave older build output behind until a later cleanup. The impact is bounded to regenerable output, so this is mergeable with owner awareness.

Security architecture risk: Moderate · up to 34b66

Export introduces a new disclosure boundary without confirming that the resolved APK belongs to the selected project's build output. Cleanup has useful ownership checks, but concurrent writes can undermine its recovery guarantees. These risks are device-local and constrained by user interaction and existing file permissions.

Retained concerns

• Medium · security · inferred: The new export flow treats metadata-selected file paths as authority to disclose an APK. A crafted listing can use traversal, or a listing redirect, to select a readable APK outside the chosen project's output. Export then copies it to public Downloads or grants a chosen recipient read access. The parser and provider scope already existed, but this PR adds dissemination sinks. Selected-variant lookup, APK validation and explicit user choice constrain exposure; they do not establish file ownership. This is a conditional disclosure concern, not a verified end-to-end exploit.
• Low · reliability · inferred: Cleanup can lose the ownership record needed for recovery when another writer adds output after the directory snapshot. Non-marker entries are deleted first, then the marker, then the directory. If new content makes the final directory deletion fail, a populated markerless tree remains and subsequent sweeps skip it. Builds prepare the same tree, while the inspected cleanup callers do not participate in the build reservation. Ordinary deletion failures retain the marker, but concurrent-write safety is not established. This weakens the intended lifecycle guarantee for private artifacts.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The demonstrated boundary is device-local: an actor able to influence the selected listing could influence which app-readable APK is offered for export. Disclosure still requires the user's export choice and is bounded by the app's filesystem access, not authority over other apps' private stores or remote services.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — The conditional disclosure path is modified listing or redirect, resolution of an APK outside the selected output, user selection of Share or Copy, then a recipient read grant or public copy. The new sinks make the existing resolver's ownership assumptions security-relevant; complete attacker reachability was not verified.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Export requires an editor activity and an Android application module, resolves the selected variant, checks active builds at entry, and rejects missing or malformed listings and detected Quick Build proxy APKs. These are useful selection and consistency controls, but do not authenticate artifact ownership.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — Export publication is not reserved against concurrent exports or subsequent build writes. Multiple copies can select the same target and partial filename, while the build check is only a point-in-time observation. Exception-path cleanup is present, but consistent artifact publication under concurrent activity is not established.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Define the permitted artifact roots from the selected model, validate canonical listing and APK ownership against them, and export a stable snapshot rather than trusting a mutable metadata-selected path.
• proposed — Coordinate cleanup with output writers and preserve recoverable ownership until deletion completes. For Downloads publication, use operation-unique temporary files and exclusive destination ownership rather than shared partial names and check-then-use selection.

Pre-merge checks: 5

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly identifies the main changes: deleting relocated build output with projects, sweeping orphaned output, and adding APK export.
Description check		The description directly explains the cleanup behavior, orphan sweep, APK export, validation results, scope boundaries, and prerequisite PRs.
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Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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app/src/test/java/com/itsaky/androidide/services/builder/BuildOutputLocationTest.kt: 1

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Test the non-canonical marker case directly.

treeOf calls prepare, and prepare writes canonicalProjectLocation() into the marker. In both tests, the marker already holds the real path, so neither test reaches the marker-side comparison. If removeTreesOf compared the raw marker text against the canonical project path, both tests would still pass. The test names describe a marker that holds an alias spelling, which the fixtures never create.

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-		val tree = treeOf(noBackup, File(link.toFile(), "app"))
+		val tree = treeOf(noBackup, app)
+		File(tree, BuildOutputLocation.PROJECT_PATH_FILE).writeText(File(link.toFile(), "app").path)

Do not apply the same change to the symlinked-root test without checking how canonicalization handles a dangling alias. That test deletes the real folder before the lookup.

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