The manifest asked for fine and coarse location, camera, phone, phone state
and external storage - Delphi's defaults, none of them used. On a password
vault those are exactly the wrong signals: whoever reads the app's listing saw
a request for position and camera with no possible explanation. The list is
written by hand now.
A trap on the way: naming the substitution marker inside the comment that
explains its removal is enough to bring it back. The substitution is textual
and does not care that it lands in a comment.
The bench credentials are no longer compiled into a release - the local
include is debug-only. Verified in the binary in UTF-8 AND UTF-16: Delphi
stores strings as UTF-16, so an ASCII grep returned zero on both sides and
proved nothing.
The log leaves the home screen in release without leaving the application: a
1.5 s press on the status line brings it back. Nothing secret is in it, but a
permanent Log button is development noise, and diagnostics must stay reachable
for the day something goes wrong remotely.
And the Release configuration did not compile at all, which nobody knew: the
two self-checks had their declarations under IFDEF DEBUG and their bodies
outside. Invisible as long as one only ever builds Debug.
Signing is what remains, and the keystore password is the user's to hold.
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