Give the phone both pickers, and settle who signs the APK

The files screen could browse a remote and delete on it, and that was all: there
is no browsable local filesystem on Android for a second pane to show, so the
gesture the desktop is built around — choose on the left, press the arrow — has
nothing to stand on. What replaces it is the platform's own two pickers. ADD
FILES is ACTION_OPEN_DOCUMENT, so a document is pointed at wherever it lives and
goes to the directory showing; SAVE FILE is ACTION_CREATE_DOCUMENT for the
selected row.

Both stage through the application's cache, and that copy is a requirement
rather than a shortcut. android-port.md predicted a picked document would be a
third IRemoteFileStore beside SFTP and S3; it cannot be. FileTransferQueue seeks,
because an upload resumes from the byte the last attempt reached, and a
content:// URI has no path behind it, no length worth trusting, no promised seek
and no grant that survives the document being edited underneath it. Copying
first costs one class in the head and nothing at all in the shared layers, where
the alternative was every resume rule rewritten around a stream that cannot
rewind. The copy is deleted when the transfer completes, kept while it is stopped
so RESUME still has something to read, and swept at the next launch — which is
the one moment emptying that directory is provably safe, since nothing has
queued anything yet.

Coming out had a decision going in did not: when to ask where it goes. The save
picker is raised before the transfer, so the download runs into the same staging
directory and hands its bytes to a callback the head supplied, held against the
transfer id so a RETRY still lands where the person pointed. Asking afterwards
would put the picker minutes from the button that caused it and, on a phone,
usually while the application is backgrounded and Android will not show one at
all. The cost is that the picker creates its file when it is dismissed, so a
download that then fails leaves an empty one there; that is said on the screen,
in the README and in the manual checks rather than left to be discovered. A
delivery that fails keeps the staged bytes for the sweep instead of throwing away
the one copy of something just fetched over somebody's network.

The foreground service counts transfers now, which is the half of it that
matters most here: a shell survives backgrounding because somebody is looking at
it, and an upload has to survive precisely when nobody is. Queued counts as
active, so putting five files in and locking the phone moves five files. The
seam was built for this and wired to () => 0 because nothing could fill the
queue.

Alongside it, ADR 0010 answers the second question android-port.md left open,
and it had to be answered before the first release rather than at upload time: a
new Play app must use App Bundles and therefore Play App Signing, and an
installed app can only be updated by a package signed with the same key, so the
first release picks an identity for good. The project holds the key, offline and
never in CI — the workflow's package step now says so where somebody would break
it — and a DodoSSH deployment never serves the client, because a download link on
your own server hands the binary that holds the plaintext to the party the whole
threat model is about.

The README's M1 gap note was stale in both halves and is replaced by what is
actually true: credentials have an editor and a REMEMBER tick, and the device key
registers into the TPM under a CNG policy that makes the consent dialog a
condition of using it. What is left is the floor rather than a gap — no TPM, or
no Windows, means the passphrase on every launch.
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> | Logs: a blinking **FOLLOW** pill over a live `tail` | A REFRESH button. These are the keychain's own synced audit records, written once at close and read when the screen opens — there is nothing to tail. |
> | Logs: `ALL 8 / INFO 5 / WARN 2 / ERROR 1` and per-host chips | The real two-way choice: connections, or keychain activity. A connection record is not a syslog line and carries no level, and neither log filters by host. |
> | SFTP: the `LOCAL / REMOTE` toggle | One remote pane. Scoped storage means there is no browsable local filesystem, which `docs/android-port.md` decided before any of this was built. |
> | SFTP: the transfer card, and moving files at all | ◆ **Browsing, opening and deleting only, and the screen says so.** Both transfer commands exist and both work — against the local pane. `QueueDownloads` writes to `Path.Combine(LocalPath, name)`, and `LocalPath` starts at `SpecialFolder.UserProfile`, which on Android is the application's own private directory: a download would report success and leave the file somewhere the person who asked for it cannot open. That is worse than not offering it, because a refusal is visible and a file in `/data/user/0/…` is not. The queue is not drawn either, since nothing on this head can put anything in it. Both return with the document picker. |
> | SFTP: the transfer card, and moving files at all | ◆ **Both directions ship, and neither is the button the design drew.** There is no local pane for an UPLOAD arrow to point away from, so the gestures are the platform's two pickers: ADD FILES is `ACTION_OPEN_DOCUMENT` — "point at a document wherever it lives" — and SAVE FILE is `ACTION_CREATE_DOCUMENT`, asked *before* the transfer because a picker raised on completion arrives over whatever the person moved on to, and often while the app is backgrounded and Android will not show one. Both stage through the cache, for the same reason: a `content://` URI has no path, no trustworthy length and no promised seek, and the queue needs all three to resume. `QueueDownloads` — the desktop's path, writing into `LocalPath` — is unused here, because `LocalPath` on Android is the app's own private directory. The queue is drawn now, since this head can fill it. |
> | S3: `96 objects · 412 GB` and `lifecycle: IA after 7d` | Omitted. Neither a bucket total nor a lifecycle policy is fetched; the listing is what `IRemoteFileStore` returns. |
> | A `+` floating button on **HOSTS** | **Shipped in v3.** It was omitted twice, on the grounds that it would open a host editor this head had not got — and that was true until one existed. It raises a sheet rather than a form, because "add" on this screen is two operations: a host, or a group to file hosts under. |
> | A 14px rounded inset around the terminal | Not drawn. The renderer is a native child view composited above everything Avalonia draws, so a rounded frame behind it clips nothing. What the design was after comes from the page's own background, which is the design's `#171A26`. |