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          screenshots). Put the file where a reviewer can open it without signing in — an
          unlisted YouTube link is the usual choice — and paste that link in. Replacing the
          video later means resubmitting the declaration.
+
+         A hand recording is just as valid and needs no tooling at all: every Android 11+ phone
+         has a screen recorder in the quick settings, and the whole video is six steps —
+
+         1. the app on its intro,
+         2. tap *Start scan* — this is the trigger the declaration is about,
+         3. press Home, so the app is no longer on screen,
+         4. pull the notification shade down and let "Scan progress" sit there for a few
+            seconds, with its live counter and *Cancel* button, while the scan keeps running,
+         5. tap the app back into the foreground for the finished results,
+         6. stop the recording and upload it.
+
+         Keep it under two minutes and don't cut mid-way; a reviewer has to be able to follow
+         the trigger and see the service doing its job after the app leaves the screen.
          ⚠️ **Record it on a real device.** The capture proved unreliable on this machine's
          software-emulated AVD (no KVM), and both failures are platform-level rather than
          app-level: