diff --git a/.gitea/workflows/build-and-test.yml b/.gitea/workflows/build-and-test.yml
index cf6cb29..467fa17 100644
--- a/.gitea/workflows/build-and-test.yml
+++ b/.gitea/workflows/build-and-test.yml
@@ -117,7 +117,18 @@ jobs:
           CARGO_TARGET_DIR: target-android
         run: |
           set -e
-          cargo ndk -t arm64-v8a build -p dr-gpu --release
+          # `darkroom-android`, not a core crate: this step reads the API level
+          # out of a *linked* object, and only that crate produces one. It is
+          # the workspace's single `crate-type = ["cdylib"]`; a library crate
+          # builds an rlib, which is an archive of object files that no linker
+          # has yet touched and that `file` therefore has nothing to say about.
+          # Asking for `-p dr-gpu` here could only ever reach the "no aarch64
+          # .so was produced" branch below, whatever the linker did.
+          #
+          # It is also the honest artefact to check: the .so this names is the
+          # one that ships in the APK, so the API level verified here is the
+          # API level a device will refuse to install against.
+          cargo ndk -t arm64-v8a build -p darkroom-android --release
           MIN_API=$(sed -n 's/^ARG MIN_API=\([0-9]*\).*/\1/p' docker/android/Dockerfile)
           # Empty on both sides would compare equal and pass, so neither side
           # is allowed to be the result of a failed parse.