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Nightly 0.0.0-alpha.0.133 died before its first frame. The long press I added attached itself in HostsScreen's constructor through the field the Avalonia name generator declares for `x:Name` — and that field is assigned by the generated InitializeComponent, which no view in this repository calls. Every one of them loads its XAML directly. So the field compiles, resolves in the editor, and is null at run time; PhoneShell builds this control on the way up, so the NullReferenceException took the launch rather than the hosts screen. PhoneShell and TerminalScreen both use FindControl, and PhoneShell carries a <remarks> saying exactly this and naming exactly this consequence. I read neither and wrote the field. So the rule is in docs/platform-flags.md now as well. A comment on the control that already got it right is not where somebody writing a new one is looking, which is the whole of why two correct examples and one warning were not enough. And phase 8 opens with "it launches at all". Nothing on this head is covered by a test — no test project, no headless surface — so a view that throws while being built takes the launch with it and no gate anywhere says so. Thirty seconds, and it would have caught this one before it was published.