docs(readme): restructure onboarding for first-time users

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Summary

Reworks the README so the repository landing page can be read and used by someone who has never
used flutterdec before. The content is reorganized rather than rewritten: orientation and a
five-minute walkthrough first, deep internals moved into collapsed sections or linked docs, and
everything needed to install and run the tool kept in place.

What changed:

• Clearer opening: a one-paragraph description, input/output/use-case bullets, the three commands a beginner needs (info, adapter install, decompile), and a table of contents.
• Requirements: target (Android Flutter AOT ARM64, APK or libapp.so), split-APK caveat, host platforms, and what is optional.
• Installation: one recommended path first (Nix, no install), then the prebuilt prefix, then source builds. Adds a correction verified against the published assets: the v0.1.0-alpha.4 archives contain a lone flutterdec binary and cannot install adapters without a checkout, while the bin/ + share/ prefix instructions match the release workflow on main (next tagged release).
• Quick start: a numbered walkthrough with what each command gives you, what to open first, and an explicit explanation of the expected exit code 1 (quality gate, artifacts still written, how to measure and set --max-placeholder-ifs honestly).
• How it works: a plain-language pipeline (loader → adapter → disassembly → IR/CFG → decompiler → reporting), a condensed backend capability table, and collapsed sections for backend env vars and per-feature toggles.
• Common tasks / command reference / output files: task-oriented tables, plus collapsed "what report.json contains" and a "pick a file by question" table.
• Troubleshooting: collapsed Q&A for what a first-time user actually hits (exit 1, no function names, unresolved pool values, adapter install/list behavior, data locations, unsupported targets).
• Kept: the full "See it in action" showcase with every SVG capture, project status/goals/non-goals, documentation links, third-party credits, MIT license, and issue/security links.

Details that previously lived only in the README were preserved in condensed form: the adapter/backend capability table, core recovery semantics, dart_aliases / dart_version / dart_tag_style semantics, backend environment variables, report.json sub-blocks, and the measured LocalSend quality-gate numbers.

Validation

Docs-only change; no Rust code touched, so cargo fmt / clippy / test are not affected.

• Markdown code fences balanced
• All internal anchors and relative links resolve (checked against headings and files with a script)
• All 9 image references exist
• No trailing whitespace

Scope

• Atomic commit (docs(readme): ...)
• Docs updated (README.md only); no code or other docs touched
• No unrelated refactors mixed in

Note: the branch also resolves a pre-existing stale unmerged index entry for adapters/manifest.json
(an obsolete file absent from HEAD, and crates/flutterdec-cli/tests/adapter_store.rs asserts a
checkout has no such file). It is index-only and adds no diff.

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Walkthrough

The README was reorganized into a task-oriented guide. It covers installation, a decompilation workflow, adapter and backend behavior, function targeting, analysis options, outputs, and troubleshooting. It adds examples for Android startup recovery, selector recovery, and release comparisons. It also updates project information, contribution guidance, and credits.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 72317

The guide is mergeable with a small correction: users troubleshooting missing names need the right report path to identify the selected backend.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the README documentation change and its onboarding focus. It is concise and related to the main change.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description includes the required Summary, Validation, and Scope sections. It explains the README changes, records relevant documentation checks, and confirms scope boundaries. It does not list th…
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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- Around line 131-134: Update the alpha.4 installation instructions to reflect
that the archive contains only the standalone flutterdec binary: replace steps
that copy nonexistent bin/ and share/ directories with instructions to install
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🟡 Minor · Use the correct backend path in the troubleshooting instruction. · README.md:518-528

README.md:518-528
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Use the correct backend path in the troubleshooting instruction.

The report stores the resolved backend at adapter_selection.provider.resolved_backend. The current path does not identify that value, so users cannot complete this backend-diagnosis step.

Suggested fix

-Names come from the adapter. Check `report.json.adapter_selection.resolved_backend`:
+Names come from the adapter. Check `report.json.adapter_selection.provider.resolved_backend`:

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Review comment at @README.md around lines 518 - 528:
Update the backend reference in the “My pseudocode has no function names”
troubleshooting section to use the report’s
`adapter_selection.provider.resolved_backend` path.

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- Around line 518-528: Update the backend reference in the “My pseudocode has no
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