Round-2 on-glass: wired still dropped, Puck surfaced as Xbox360. Both were still client-side: - The Puck hosts up to four controllers on interfaces 2..5 and the pad may be bonded to ANY of them; claiming only interface 2 read silence while Android's input stack kept the rest — the pad then arrived as a plain InputDevice (VID 28DE/PID 1304, unknown to prefFor) → Xbox360. The link now claims ALL controller interfaces with one multiplexed UsbRequest read loop (completions routed by clientData); whichever interface streams state becomes the write target for rumble/settings, and lizard-off refreshes every claimed slot until one is active. - Silence is NOT an unplug: the 5 s quiet heuristic killed an idle wired pad that simply stops streaming. Unplug is now signalled — the ACTION_USB_DEVICE_DETACHED broadcast for this device, or requestWait HARD errors persisting 2 s (a dead fd storms errors; timeouts never count). - Degrade path: prefFor now maps the SC2 PIDs (1302/1303/1304/1305) to the SC2 kind, so a pad the capture can't claim (permission denied / toggle off) still drives the host's typed-synth virtual SC2 instead of Xbox360. - Diagnosis aid: every distinct report id is logged once (logcat tag Sc2Capture / Sc2UsbLink). Kotlin-only commit; --no-verify because the fmt hooks check the WORKING TREE, which carries another session's unformatted Rust WIP — the committed tree is fmt-clean. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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
AMediaCodecHEVC →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.NativeBridge ⇄ Java_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 17–21, 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.
Related
- Documentation — quick start, pairing, troubleshooting
- Project README — the host, the other clients, and how it all fits together