android: the handoff — the pending rounds, the pipeline, and what is unverified

Everything written this session that has not been through the device: rounds 43
to 48 (each patch adversarially verified, 43's transient-notice expectation
fixed), a partial round 49, the pipeline scripts, the Android Auto design and
the icon comparison mock. Also the two harness changes that were never A/B'd —
adaptive waits, which may only shorten a declared wait and never lengthen it,
and a ship that runs the mock walk and the deploy at the same time. The A/B and
its 255-step baseline are in handoff/tools; main stays at what the phone has
actually walked.

handoff/rounds/ins-r29-manifest.txt

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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
+    <!-- the foreground service that carries the downloads while the app is
+         in the background; a fetch is dataSync, not playback -->
+    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE" />
+    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE_DATA_SYNC" />
+    <!-- the notice is a notification; asked for at runtime on Android 13+ -->
+    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.POST_NOTIFICATIONS" />
+
+    <application>
+        <!-- no intent filter: the notice's own buttons come back as
+             onStartCommand intents on this very service -->
+        <service
+            android:name="com.soulstream.transfernotice.TransferService"
+            android:exported="false"
+            android:foregroundServiceType="dataSync" />
+    </application>
+</manifest>