adb install -r doesn't kill your app, so your screenshot is a lie

Reinstalling over a running app leaves the old process alive. Every 'fixed it, look' screenshot taken without a force-stop is unfalsifiable.

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The symptom

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The preflight gate will block it while status: ready and the body is this short, which is the intended behaviour.