[Bug]: Reproducible Builds fail

[IzzySoft]

Guidelines

• I have encountered this bug in the latest release of FreeTube.
• I have searched the issue tracker for open and closed issues that are similar to the bug report I want to file, without success.
• I have searched the documentation for information that matches the description of the bug I want to file, without success.
• This issue contains only one bug.

Describe the bug

With the last 2 versions, reproducible builds of your app fail: the APK at your releases contains a file that's not included if we build the APK from the corresponding tag:

  -rw-r--r--  0.0 unx  1326364 b-   637941 defN 1981-01-01 01:01:02 456a5028 classes.dex
- -rw-r--r--  0.0 unx     5338 b-     2199 defN 1981-01-01 01:01:02 86f66ad5 assets/botGuardScript.js
  -rw-r--r--  0.0 unx   171676 b-    90398 defN 1981-01-01 01:01:02 d5989cee assets/fonts/Roboto-Regular.ttf

Expected Behavior

Both APKs are identical, and above mentioned file either exists in both or in none of the two

Issue Labels

inconsistent behavior

FreeTube Version

0.23.1.11

Operating System Version

n/a

Installation Method

.apk

Primary API used

Local API

Last Known Working FreeTube Version (If Any)

No response

Additional Information

For some background on reproducible builds (and this issue), see e.g. Reproducible Builds, special client support and more at IzzyOnDroid.

Nightly Build

• I have encountered this bug in the latest nightly build.

[MarmadileManteater]

yeah, its bc i wasn't being mindful and i added an extra step to the build process. i should probably just trigger the new step when calling the existing command. sorry 🙇‍♀️

[IzzySoft]

💩 happens to the best of us! 🤞 for the next release then, which hopefully has that fixed. It's the only item making RB fail, so hopefully not too difficult to fix 😉 Thanks in advance!

PS: we can also update the recipe here with the additional step if that makes it easier. Current build recipe here is:

build:
  - wget -q -O /tmp/nodejs-lts.zip -- https://nodejs.org/dist/v22.13.1/node-v22.13.1-linux-x64.tar.xz
  - sha256sum -c <<< '0d2a5af33c7deab5555c8309cd3f373446fe1526c1b95833935ab3f019733b3b  /tmp/nodejs-lts.zip'
  - tar xf /tmp/nodejs-lts.zip -C /opt
  - export PATH="${PATH}:/opt/node-v22.13.1-linux-x64/bin:${HOME}/.node/bin"
  - npm config set prefix "${HOME}/.node"
  - npm install -g yarn
  - sed -r '/version/ { s/"[0-9.]+"/"'"${APP_TAG}"'"/ }' -i package.json
  - yarn ci
  - yarn pack:android
  - cd android
  - sed -r '/release \{/,/}/ { /signingConfig/d }' -i app/build.gradle.kts
  - sed -r 's/"FreeTube Android"/"FreeTube"/' -i settings.gradle.kts
  - sed -r 's/FreeTube Android/FreeTube/' -i app/src/main/res/values/strings.xml
  - chmod +x gradlew
  - ./gradlew assembleRelease
  - mv app/build/outputs/apk/release/app-release-unsigned.apk /outputs/unsigned.apk