Per the repo owner's decision, preflight now runs the API 37 preview
emulator locally instead of leaving it to CI. Since there is no Gradle
Managed Device DSL path to the nonstandard android-37.0 /
google_apis_ps16k image, add a stdlib-only, cross-platform Python 3
helper (.claude/skills/preflight/api37_e2e.py) that mirrors CI's
e2e-preview job EXACTLY: same system image string
(system-images;android-37.0;google_apis_ps16k;x86_64), same emulator
flags, same provisioning/boot sequence. It installs the image via
sdkmanager, creates the AVD via avdmanager, cold-boots headless, waits
for sys.boot_completed, runs :app:connectedDebugAndroidTest, then tears
the emulator + AVD down. Cross-platform: per-OS tool discovery/suffixes
and cmd /c wrapping for Windows .bat launchers.
Update SKILL.md + CLAUDE.md so preflight runs api35 + api36 (GMDs) +
api37 (this script), and the app/build.gradle.kts managed-devices
comment now points at the script. Add a caveat that emulators need a
free hardware hypervisor (VT-x/WHPX) — shut down VirtualBox/other VMs
first or the AVD hangs at 0% CPU.
Validated syntactically only (python -m py_compile + ast.parse +
argparse --help); no emulator was booted and no build was run, to avoid
contending with an in-progress api36 run.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
JMR-devandClaude Opus 4.8
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