Reconcile duplicate release.yml: merge PR #36 and PR #37 into a single authoritative CI/CD pipeline

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Two agent-created PRs (#36 and #37) both introduced .github/workflows/release.yml as a new file with incompatible implementations — merging either after the other would produce a merge conflict or a silent destructive overwrite.

What changed

.github/workflows/release.yml — reconciled from both PRs

Best-of-both implementation:

• From PR feat: automate release cycle and deployment CI/CD pipeline #37: finalize bump mode, shell-based changelog generation (exported as step output), GitHub Release creation via actions/github-script, cache: npm, heredoc Node.js style
• From PR chore: Setup Release Cycle Automation #36: optional release_version manual override input, broader suffix stripping (-dev, -SNAPSHOT, ISO/plain timestamps), dynamic push to HEAD:${{ github.ref_name }} (not hardcoded to main), [skip ci] on next-dev commit

inputs:
  bump:            # finalize | patch | minor | major
  release_version: # optional override — skips auto-derivation

Suffix stripping now covers all variants in a single, non-redundant regex:

sed -E 's/-(dev|SNAPSHOT|alpha|beta|rc|[0-9]{8}T?[0-9]{6}Z?)([.-].*)?$//'

.github/workflows/deploy.yml — from PR #37 (absent in PR #36)

Fires on v*.*.* tags or workflow_dispatch. Android: ./gradlew assembleDebug → artifact upload + optional Firebase. iOS: eas build --profile preview (Expo cloud, no macOS runner) + optional Firebase.

eas.json — from PR #37

EAS build profiles: development, preview (internal APK/IPA), production (auto-increment).

CHANGELOG.md — from PR #36

Placeholder; populated on first workflow run.

app.json + package.json

Added missing version field; both set to 1.0.0-dev to establish the dev-cycle suffix convention.

Recommended action for maintainers

Close PR #36 and PR #37 without merging — this PR is their union.

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• The release.yml file is identical in both PRs, or if there are differences (describe precisely what they are).
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