[Feature]: Provide Android APK for nightly builds

[boommasterxd]

Before submitting

• I searched existing issues and did not find a duplicate.
• I am describing a concrete problem or use case, not just a vague idea.

Area

apps/mobile

Problem or use case

When using the nightly version of the desktop app or the nightly version of the server, sometimes the android app cannot connect to the remotes because of an version mismatch, between mobile app and remote server.

Proposed solution

Include an Android APK in the nightly releases, so that server and mobile app have compatible versions.

Why this matters

This would allow nightly users to use the android app more reliable.

Smallest useful scope

Include the APK in the release.

Alternatives considered

No response

Risks or tradeoffs

Release time may go up, if the apk is not already build on release.

Examples or references

No response

Contribution

• I would be open to helping implement this.

[KaKi87]

APKs in general would be nice as well, to download with Obtainium rather than going through Google's Play Store.

[KaKi87]

Well, I ended up doing it myself : https://github.com/VibedByKaKi/t3-code-android-nightly

It's a little more stable now

[boommasterxd]

Any updates on this one for official support?

[niteshbalusu11]

I'd like to add signed APKs and checksums to nightly and stable GitHub releases.

This would also help people who can't join the Android beta Google Group (#17905). They could install the nightly APK directly.

It would use your existing EAS setup, with one Android build per nightly or stable release. Desktop releases wouldn't wait for Android. APK updates would be manual.

The nightly APK passed signing, checksum, and release upload/retry checks in my fork. It also works on my Android phone.

Would you approve this contribution before I open a PR?

[juliusmarminge]

Note

Grok responding on behalf of Julius.

This landed in #16271. CI now mirrors the Play-signed universal APK for the newest v2-preview build to a rolling android-nightly prerelease, so nightly users can grab it from the android-nightly release. That page fills in after the first run once the maintainer setup is done, so it may 404 for a short while. A stable APK from the production track is a possible follow-up. Closing as resolved.