fix: stabilize discover/likes races and improve location UX

android/app/build.gradle.kts

@@ -34,8 +34,8 @@ android {
     namespace = "com.the360ghar.ghar360"
     // Explicitly target Android 15 / API 36 to meet plugin requirements.
     compileSdk = 36
-    // maplibre_gl requires NDK 28.x; use highest required (backward compatible).
-    ndkVersion = "28.1.13356709"
+    // Align with Flutter/plugin highest requirement (jni wants 28.2.x; NDK is backward-compatible).
+    ndkVersion = "28.2.13676358"
 
     compileOptions {
         sourceCompatibility = JavaVersion.VERSION_21

android/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml

@@ -114,12 +114,7 @@
             android:name="flutterEmbedding"
             android:value="2" />
 
-        <!-- Enable Impeller rendering engine for better performance -->
-        <meta-data
-            android:name="io.flutter.embedding.android.EnableImpeller"
-            android:value="true" />
-
-
+        <!-- Impeller is the default on modern Flutter; no explicit EnableImpeller meta-data. -->
 
     </application>
 </manifest>

android/gradle.properties

@@ -1,4 +1,24 @@
-org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx8G -XX:MaxMetaspaceSize=4G -XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=512m -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError --enable-native-access=ALL-UNNAMED
+# Conservative defaults for 8GB developer machines (AsmClassesTransform /
+# mergeDebugGlobalSynthetics + Kotlin daemon stay under typical laptop RAM).
+# CI / high-RAM hosts: override without editing this file, e.g.
+#   export GRADLE_OPTS="-Dorg.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx4g -XX:MaxMetaspaceSize=512m"
+# or add to ~/.gradle/gradle.properties / CI secrets:
+#   org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx4g -XX:MaxMetaspaceSize=512m ...
+#   org.gradle.workers.max=2
+#   org.gradle.parallel=true
+org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx2g -XX:MaxMetaspaceSize=512m -XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=256m -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 --enable-native-access=ALL-UNNAMED
+
+# Prefer stability over max parallelism (large Flutter plugin graphs).
+# Raise workers/parallel on CI only after raising -Xmx (see above).
+org.gradle.workers.max=1
+org.gradle.parallel=false
+org.gradle.caching=true
+org.gradle.daemon=true
+org.gradle.configureondemand=false
+
+# Kotlin compiler daemon (separate process; competes with Gradle -Xmx).
+kotlin.daemon.jvmargs=-Xmx768m -XX:MaxMetaspaceSize=256m
+
 android.useAndroidX=true
 android.enableJetifier=true
 # This builtInKotlin flag was added automatically by Flutter migrator

android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties

@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@ distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.13-all.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.14-all.zip

android/settings.gradle.kts

@@ -18,8 +18,9 @@ pluginManagement {
 
 plugins {
     id("dev.flutter.flutter-plugin-loader") version "1.0.0"
-    id("com.android.application") version "8.12.1" apply false
-    id("org.jetbrains.kotlin.android") version "2.2.0" apply false
+    // AGP 8.11.1 is the max officially tested with Kotlin 2.2.20.
+    id("com.android.application") version "8.11.1" apply false
+    id("org.jetbrains.kotlin.android") version "2.2.20" apply false
     // Google Services (Firebase)
     id("com.google.gms.google-services") version "4.4.2" apply false
     // Firebase Gradle plugins applied in app module

lib/core/config/dev_env.g.dart

@@ -11,4 +11,3 @@ const Map<String, String> kDevEnv = {
   // <dev-env:begin>
   // <dev-env:end>
 };
-