Mobile Artefacts available from MR widget

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Problem to solve

After we deliver #37346 (closed), we can make the artefacts more accessible by unzipping the package and allow downloading only the *.apk file which will be more efficient to someone who needs to review a mobile app

Intended users

  • Parker (Product Manager)
  • Devon (DevOps Engineer)
  • Sasha (Software Developer)

Also QA engineers

Further details

When you developing a mobile app and you want to test/demo it, you need to install the apk on an emulator/physical device. Allowing users to download the apk directly from the MR can save a lot of time.

#20295 (comment 250686588)

Proposal

Following the mockup from #37346 (closed):

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/uploads/8952aea667c9055820cba632fc30f010/image.png

Pressing the download button should allow you several options - download artefacts - which will give you to download any pipeline artefacts (like on the pipelines download) or allow you to download the package - apk files

We should also offer an API similar to GET /projects/:id/jobs/:job_id/artifacts/*artifact_path that will allow to download the *apk directly. This can be used for scripts that download the file directly to the resources (emulator/physical device)

Permissions and Security

Documentation

Testing

What does success look like, and how can we measure that?

Number of people downloading *.apk type artefacts

What is the type of buyer?

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Edited Sep 24, 2025 by 🤖 GitLab Bot 🤖
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