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enricobuehlerandClaude Fable 5 1984ddb942 feat(android): a USB Sony pad is captured — rumble, adaptive triggers, lightbar, gyro
A DualSense on a phone had rumble only where the kernel exposed force
feedback, and adaptive triggers / lightbar / player LEDs nowhere — Android
has no platform API for any of them, and Bluetooth offers no raw path
(L2CAP is LE-only; hidraw is root-sealed — Sony's own Remote Play declares
Android triggers unsupported). Claiming the pad's HID interface over USB is
the one unrooted route, so that is what the client now does.

- HidUsbLink: the device-agnostic half of Sc2UsbLink (claim, multiplexed
  UsbRequest loop, newest-wins write queue, signalled-unplug discipline),
  parameterized by device match / interface filter / keep-alive. Sc2UsbLink
  keeps only its SC2 specifics (Puck interfaces 2..5, lizard refresh).
- GamepadFeedback.PadFeedbackSink: 0xCA rumble + 0xCD Led/PlayerLeds/
  Trigger now route to a capture link that owns the pad BEFORE the
  InputDevice vibrator/lights paths — Trigger stops being log-and-drop.
- DsDevice: the byte-exact inverse of the host's dualsense_proto /
  dualshock4_proto — input report 0x01 parse (buttons/sticks/triggers,
  gyro+accel, both touch points; Edge FN/BACK → wire paddles) and output
  builders (DS5 0x02 valid-flag-selective incl. the 11-byte trigger blocks
  and the lightbar-animation release; DS4 0x05 as composed full-state
  writes). Covered by DsDeviceTest (pure JVM).
- DsCapture: stream-mode capture for DualSense / Edge / DS4 — lazy wire
  slot on the first parsed report, typed mirror (exit chord included),
  touch normalized onto the rich plane + per-report motion, feedback
  rendering with a rumble backstop (a USB pad holds its level, so a
  stalled poll thread self-terminates via a scheduled zero-write) and a
  teardown motor-stop over EP0. The claim releases the pad's InputDevice
  slot itself so the wire index hands over deterministically; uncaptured
  (toggle off / permission denied / Bluetooth) the pad stays on the
  ordinary InputDevice path.
- Rich-input shims: nativeSendPadTouch / nativeSendPadMotion →
  RichInput::Touchpad / Motion — the plane the desktop and Apple clients
  already feed; Android pads gain gyro + touchpad on the virtual pad.
- Settings: "DualSense / DualShock passthrough (USB)" (ds_capture, opt-out
  like the SC2 toggle); Controllers screen card with capture status and a
  front-loaded USB grant so streams start without the permission dialog.

The host needs nothing: the DS5/DS4 backends already consume the typed +
rich planes and already emit every feedback event rendered here.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-30 18:34:57 +02:00
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punktfunk — Android client (phone & TV)

The native Android app for streaming a punktfunk host to your phone, tablet, or Android TV. A Compose app that finds hosts on your network, pairs with a PIN, and streams at the display's own resolution — with hardware HEVC decode, HDR10, and controller support, built for both touch and the couch (D-pad / gamepad focus navigation).

Features

  • Hardware decode — NDK AMediaCodec HEVC → SurfaceView, including HDR10 (Main10 / BT.2020 PQ), with low-latency tuning and a live stats HUD.
  • Audio both ways — Opus + AAudio playback with a jitter ring, plus mic uplink to the host.
  • Controller support — buttons + axes with rumble and HID feedback (lightbar / adaptive triggers); D-pad / gamepad focus navigation for TV and phone.
  • Find hosts automatically — native mDNS discovery; first connect does a one-time SPAKE2 PIN pairing (or TOFU on trusted LANs), then reconnects on a Keystore-wrapped, pinned identity.
  • Compose UI — Connect / Settings / Stream screens with Material You theming.

Built for arm64-v8a + armeabi-v7a + x86_64 — the 32-bit armeabi-v7a slice is what keeps the app installable on the many 32-bit Google TV / Android TV streamers (Walmart onn. 4K, Chromecast with Google TV, budget Amlogic boxes) that otherwise reject a 64-bit-only build as "not compatible".

Get it

Published to Google Play (Internal Testing) — join the beta via the Discord. Per-device setup and pairing: docs.punktfunk.unom.io/docs/install-client.

How it's built — Rust-heavy

Kotlin can't import the cbindgen C header the way Swift can, so a native bridge is unavoidable. We write it in Rust and link punktfunk-core directly — so the Android client reuses the Linux client's orchestration (audio jitter ring, VK keymap inverse, latency/skew math, capture state machine, trust logic) instead of re-porting it into Kotlin.

Side Owns
Rust (native/libpunktfunk_android.so) the JNI seam, NativeClient (QUIC control + UDP data plane), AnnexB → AMediaCodec decode (incl. HDR10), Opus + AAudio audio + mic, controller feedback, latency math, trust/pairing, mdns-sd discovery
Kotlin (app/, kit/) Compose UI, SurfaceView lifecycle, input capture, the Wi-Fi MulticastLock + permission UX, Keystore identity

The single seam is io.unom.punktfunk.kit.NativeBridgeJava_io_unom_punktfunk_kit_NativeBridge_*.

native/           Rust cdylib (workspace member) — links punktfunk-core directly
  src/lib.rs        crate doc · JNI_OnLoad · version probes
  src/session/      session lifecycle: connect/pair + trust, plane start/stop, input shims
  src/decode.rs     AnnexB → AMediaCodec HEVC hardware decode → SurfaceView (incl. HDR10)
  src/audio.rs · src/mic.rs   Opus + AAudio playback / mic uplink
  src/feedback.rs · src/stats.rs   rumble + HID feedback; live video stats
  src/discovery.rs  native mdns-sd browse of the host's _punktfunk._udp advert
app/              :app — Compose UI: Connect / Settings / Stream (phone + TV)
kit/              :kit — NativeBridge · native mDNS discovery · Gamepad · Keymap · Keystore identity

Build & run

Prerequisites: Android SDK + NDK r30 (30.0.14904198), platforms;android-37.0, build-tools;37.0.0, cmake;3.22.1 (builds libopus); JDK 21 (AGP 9.2 runs on JDK 1721, not a newer default); Rust with rustup target add aarch64-linux-android armv7-linux-androideabi x86_64-linux-android and cargo install cargo-ndk. Toolchain is pinned (AGP 9.2 · Gradle 9.4.1 · Kotlin 2.3.21 · Compose BOM 2026.05.01 · compileSdk 37 · minSdk 28).

Android Studio: open clients/android — it uses its bundled JBR 21, and the cargoNdk* task builds the .so as part of the normal build.

CLI (point Gradle at JDK 21 if your machine default is newer):

export JAVA_HOME="$(/usr/libexec/java_home -v 21)"   # or your Temurin 21 path
cd clients/android
./gradlew :app:assembleDebug     # cargo-ndk cross-compiles libpunktfunk_android.so first
./gradlew :app:installDebug      # onto a running emulator/device
# emulators from env setup:  emulator -avd pf_phone   |   emulator -avd pf_tv

The debug APK lands in app/build/outputs/apk/debug/. Launch it, pick a host, pair, and stream.