fix(android): [Data Collection 17] Apply user info policy to distinct ID

[adinauer]

PR Stack (Data Collection)

• feat(core): Data Collection #5759
• feat(core): [Data Collection 1] Add configuration types #5760
• feat(core): [Data Collection 2] Expose SentryOptions API #5761
• feat(core): [Data Collection 3] Add policy resolver #5799
• feat(graphql): [Data Collection 4] Apply GraphQL policies #5800
• feat(database): [Data Collection 5] Apply query policy #5801
• feat(spring): [Data Collection 6] Apply incoming request body policy #5802
• feat(apollo): [Data Collection 7] Apply incoming response body policy #5803
• feat(apollo): [Data Collection 8] Apply outgoing request body policy #5804
• feat(graphql): [Data Collection 9] Apply outgoing response body policy #5805
• feat(http): [Data Collection 10] Apply request header policy #5806
• feat(http): [Data Collection 11] Apply response header policy #5807
• feat(http): [Data Collection 12] Apply query parameter policy #5810
• feat(http): [Data Collection 13] Apply cookie collection policy #5811
• feat(user): [Data Collection 14] Apply user information policy #5812
• fix(android): [Data Collection 15] Scope device info cache to SDK options #5831
• feat(replay): [Data Collection 16] Inherit network collection policy #5832
• fix(android): [Data Collection 17] Apply user info policy to distinct ID #5833
• fix(spring): [Data Collection 18] Bind key-value policies #5834

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📜 Description

Apply the resolved user information policy when generating Android's default installation-backed distinctId.

Move default distinctId generation out of AndroidOptionsInitializer and run it after the programmatic SentryAndroid.init callback. Generate the installation ID only when no distinct ID is configured and dataCollection.userInfo allows automatic identity collection.

Existing runtime gates in Android event, exit-info, device-context, and hybrid scope enrichment remain unchanged.

💡 Motivation and Context

Android logs and metrics use distinctId as an automatic user.id fallback when no scope user exists. The previous unconditional default generation left that SDK-generated identity available even when applications explicitly configured dataCollection.userInfo=false.

Evaluating the policy after the programmatic callback prevents automatic distinctId generation for opted-out applications while preserving custom IDs and the legacy absent-Data-Collection behavior.

Refs #5666

💚 How did you test it?

• ./gradlew spotlessApply apiDump
• ./gradlew :sentry-android-core:testDebugUnitTest --tests='io.sentry.android.core.AndroidOptionsInitializerTest' --tests='io.sentry.android.core.ApplicationExitInfoEventProcessorTest' --tests='io.sentry.android.core.DeviceInfoUtilTest'
• ./gradlew :sentry-android-core:apiCheck :sentry-android-core:spotlessJavaCheck :sentry-android-core:spotlessKotlinCheck
• git diff --check

📝 Checklist

• I added GH Issue ID & Linear ID
• I added tests to verify the changes.
• No new PII added or SDK only sends newly added PII if sendDefaultPII is enabled.
• I updated the docs if needed.
• I updated the wizard if needed.
• Review from the native team if needed.
• No breaking change or entry added to the changelog.
• No breaking change for hybrid SDKs or communicated to hybrid SDKs.
• Public API changes reviewed by another Mobile SDK team member or implemented according to the develop docs spec.

🔮 Next steps

Add external and Android manifest Data Collection configuration before finalizing the stack.

#skip-changelog

⚠️ Merge this PR using a merge commit (not squash). Only the collection branch is squash-merged into main.

[adinauer]

Moving this here no longer allows customers to override it in the options configuration callback passed to init since it used to run before but now is set afterwards. It can still be removed via beforeSend. Is that OK?

[sentry]

📲 Install Builds

Android

🔗 App Name	App ID	Version	Configuration
SDK Size	io.sentry.tests.size	8.48.0 (1)	release

⚙️ sentry-android Build Distribution Settings

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Performance metrics 🚀

	Plain	With Sentry	Diff
Startup time	412.04 ms	489.67 ms	77.63 ms
Size	0 B	0 B	0 B