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Launcher and Emoji search now have an explicit Clear search X with a stable 48 dp touch target. One tap clears the live query/range/composition while preserving the current route, category, editor focus and keyboard visibility. Retained callbacks reject replaced or covered surfaces. Emoji's natural 200% category text keeps the search field aligned on return to the launcher.

Closes #110. #69/#71/#89 and the newly recorded short-landscape empty-feedback gap #111 remain open. This adds no whole-Store, physical/OEM, TalkBack or system-IME repair claim.

Validation: 25 current positives / 11 whole cohorts / 171 restoration checks; five same-harness intended old-app failures / zero passes / 79 checks. Modern tablet, phone and short landscape run at 100%/200%; API26 has four established Clear/ownership smoke cases. Existing controlled input contracts run on modern tablet/phone and API26. Debug/test and benchmark/test builds succeed; lint0 errors/56 warnings each; retained unchanged-source JVM343 is UP-TO-DATE; fresh Python135 per normal/optimized mode passes. Final whole-pipeline preservation has 14 successful checks, including all573 existing app/evidence files and both original modern APKs. Report and precise accounting.

The final app is frozen at 5e7cb6b (974b2fa…9d750); final instrumentation is ca17e66 (54a86c6…366e1), controller fed57fb. All254 listed current source hashes match; all11 existing packaged assets/notices remain unchanged. Archive capture now streams into private create-only files and validates before promotion; partial failures retain ownership. Final-head hosted Android and both independent gpt-6.1-sol/high audits remain separate merge gates.

Actual Android screenshots below use Tinycast_Tablet_API_36 / API36, phone1080×2340 /420dpi /100%, selected system IME hidden. Each row uses the same final 54a86c6 harness: before appae03c85 has no X, after app974b2fa shows the X and an actual pointer Clear restores results. These are ordinary app frames; the control assertions failed without an app error banner.

Surface	Before: no Clear	After: Clear available	After pointer Clear
Launcher
Emoji

API36 tablet1920×1200 /240dpi /200%, same app/test: pointer Back returns to the exact controlled launcher caller with the matching search origin/height. Query text was controlled editor setup; Back was an actual pointer action.

Known gap, not a repair: API36 short landscape2340×1080 /420dpi /200% with the system keyboard open. Clear remains visible and its actual pointer action passes, while empty feedback is clipped under #111. The v7 harness records that measured body-visibility limitation instead of certifying the empty state. Earlier 0/2 body-visibility failures remain failed. The API26 controlled-composition precondition also remains failed before Clear, with cause open under #69; it receives no composition-clear credit. The external Pixel Launcher ANR failure and separate dismissal/continuation, transport failures and recoveries are retained in the report. No failures are converted to passes.

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Root merge-gate record for exact head 75145f89d4f637e9847ec36d35cefbde2c22aaa5, base d8d8978ba63379e332cbef013fa909ea930075da.

Both required independent full base-to-head audits used actual gpt-6.1-sol / high reasoning effort, without delegation, shared-checkout/device mutation or consulting one another. Correctness/security and collector soundness: no actionable findings. UX/touch/IME/test provenance: no actionable findings; all92 actual published PNGs inspected with paired receipts and PR captions. Both reviewers verified exact head and clean tracked/staged/untracked state at startup and final inspection. These are read-only audits; reviewers executed no builds/tests/device operations.

Root independently verified source/evidence/Git bytes and the final local receipts:25 scoped positives /11 whole cohorts /171 restoration checks; five same-harness intended old-app failures /zero passes /79 checks; fourteen separate final-preservation checks. Frozen source identities and all11 original packaged assets/notices match. Builds/lint pass, lint0 errors/56 warnings per variant; Python135 per normal/optimized mode is fresh runner-source evidence; JVM343 is explicitly reused UP-TO-DATE evidence. Root's fresh final gate read confirms head-bound local/android58167385002 SUCCESS and actual pull_request Android run42062935517 completed SUCCESS for this exact head: https://github.com/moikdev/droidcast/actions/runs/42062935517 . The earlier reviewer CI snapshots were still in progress and are not being relabeled.

Earlier failures and recoveries remain distinct. #111 empty-feedback clipping, #69 API26 composition-precondition/system-IME limits, legacy glyph gaps/#71, #89, private/cross-boot restoration, broader Store/platform/accessibility and signing/migration remain outside clearance. No broad parity or production claim. Root will use an expected-head merge only for the reviewed, verified commit.