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punktfunk/clients/android
enricobuehler 26b0819f5c fix(client/android): plugging in a Sony pad could hitch the interface
Supersedes the synchronous calibration read f6de620f shipped an hour ago. The
ordering it protected is kept; the blocking it cost is not.

f6de620f read the pad's calibration inline in DsCapture.startUsb, which runs on
the main thread — the stream's setup path, and the USB-permission broadcast. The
read is a blocking EP0 control transfer: a pad that is there answers in about a
millisecond, but a pad that is stalling takes the link's whole 250 ms write
timeout, and either way the interface was waiting on a controller. That is the
wrong thread for it.

It now runs on its own daemon thread, one per claim, named pf-ds-cal — the same
shape HidUsbLink already uses for its reader rather than a second style. A
pathological stall now delays the pad's motion by a moment instead of freezing
the UI.

What kept the ordering honest before was "assign the calibration before `model`",
since `model` is what lets the link thread into the parse. That reasoning stands,
so the gate simply moved: MotionCalHandoff holds the claim's calibration, starts
null, and onReport parses nothing until it lands. No report is ever scaled by the
last pad's numbers — those are per unit — nor by the nominal fallback the real
read is about to replace. Dropping the first millisecond of a capture costs
nothing: the reports carry absolute state, so the next one says everything the
dropped one would have.

The calibration is what got deferred, not `model`, and that is deliberate.
Keeping `model` synchronous keeps isActive, the teardown writes, the feedback
sinks and the active-changed true/false pairing meaning exactly what they meant
yesterday — and, more to the point, it makes a late completion structurally
unable to resurrect a dead capture. A straggler can only ever publish a
calibration, and nothing is parsed while `model` is null.

Teardown, which is where this sort of change actually bites. Both stop() and the
unplug path end the claim before they close anything: ending burns the token, so
a read that lands afterwards publishes nothing and says so in the log. They then
wait, bounded at 500 ms and normally already over, for the read to let go of the
connection they are about to close — closing a descriptor with a transfer in
flight pulls it out from under the kernel, the same rule the pad-audio borrow
follows. It cannot deadlock: the reading thread blocks on the EP0 transfer and on
the hand-off's own monitor, never on anything a teardown holds. If a pad has
stopped answering entirely the wait elapses and teardown proceeds regardless,
which is the same exposure the feedback writes already carry and better than an
interface that never comes back.

Tested where it is testable. MotionCalHandoff is the piece that carries the
hazard and it is pure, so it has its own test: nothing is visible until the read
lands, a read that outlived its claim publishes nothing, a re-claim never
inherits the previous pad's calibration, and a doubled end still refuses every
outstanding token. Mutation-checked both ways — deleting the token check fails 3
of them, deleting begin's clear fails the fourth.

Not covered: DsCapture's own claim/teardown ordering is not unit-testable in this
module — there is no Robolectric, and the class builds a main-Looper Handler and
needs a UsbManager — so it is argued in comments rather than pinned. The on-glass
re-verification f6de620f owes is unchanged and still owed.

Gate: `:kit:compileDebugKotlin`, `:kit:testDebugUnitTest` (61 cases across the
module, 0 failed) and `:app:compileDebugKotlin` green, with the four new cases
confirmed present in the JUnit XML rather than assumed from a green build.
2026-08-07 16:10:22 +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.